Progressive Global Elites Exposed as “Worse Than Robber Barons”

Posted by Tina

In my reading yesterday I was confronted with obvious truths about the ruling elites. The first article at Taki’s Magazine illustrates the hypocrisy of wealthy open borders elitists. Here’s the tease:

The leftist global elites—and there is no other kind of global elite—use the peasants like inanimate chess pieces in order to work out their own sick and warped guilt complexes. They live in all-white neighborhoods while smearing as “racists” the poor whites who have no choice but to live alongside a black underclass that is openly encouraged to resent them. They chatter and chirp about gun control while surrounding themselves with armed bodyguards. And they push a world-without-borders scheme while making sure they’re safely ensconced behind high walls and electronic gates.

Hypocrisy is quite evident but less obvious to some is the mess left in the wake of these narcissists. It’s reminiscent of another era when royalty lived like kings, pardon the pun, and the peasants remained poor and struggling. Left policies create sluggish economies and rising poverty. In that world upward mobility is blunted and there’s little opportunity to climb the ladder of success (or break the glass ceiling). The world of peasants and kings is the world our founders left behind when they created a new nation, the United States of America. The founders broke the bonds of tyranny the royals of the world imposed. the founders created a nation of freedom that inspired growth and prosperity for the little people unheard of in the world. Today’s elites are undermining that model for prosperity.

The tech and entertainment industry elites undermine American workers by bringing in cheap labor and parking business overseas. Democrat taxing, visa, and border policies assist them. Not long ago the tech industry lobbied for low wage immigrant workers:

The H-1B is a well-known guestworker program that is inadequately — but at least minimally — regulated, with an annual limit and a requirement that employers pay a “prevailing” wage. Other visa programs, like the L-1 and the F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, have almost no rules and receive little scrutiny, but are used to employ hundreds of thousands of foreign tech workers. Behind the scenes, the tech industry is pushing President Obama to expand them both as part of executive actions he’s considering on immigration. (emphasis mine)

Well trained, capable American workers have reported being forced from their jobs (fired) after being required to train their replacements. Big Tech and Big Hollywood companies have engaged in this practice.

One article today excoriates the big names in tech as worse than robber barons:

…as their fortunes have ballooned, so has their hubris. They see themselves as somehow better than the scum of Wall Street or the trolls in Houston or Detroit. It’s their intelligence, not just their money, that makes them the proper global rulers. In their contempt for the less cognitively gifted, they are waging what The Atlantic recently called “a war on stupid people.”

I had friends of mine who attended MIT back in the 1970s tell me they used to call themselves “tools,” which told us us something about how they regarded themselves and were regarded. Technologists were clearly bright people whom others used to solve problems or make money. Divorced from any mystical value, their technical innovations, in the words of the French sociologist Marcel Mauss, constituted “a traditional action made effective.” Their skills could be applied to agriculture, metallurgy, commerce, and energy.

In recent years, like Skynet in the Terminator, the tools have achieved consciousness, imbuing themselves with something of a society-altering mission. To a large extent, they have created what the sociologist Alvin Gouldner called “the new class” of highly educated professionals who would remake society. Initially they made life better—making spaceflight possible, creating advanced medical devices and improving communications (the internet); they built machines that were more efficient and created great research tools for both business and individuals. Yet they did not seek to disrupt all industries—such as energy, food, automobiles—that still employed millions of people. They remained “tools” rather than rulers. (emphasis mine)

Ideology and psychology matter. Hillary Clinton is on the stump today. She believes in the concept that a ruling elite can bring prosperity. She (narcissistically) believes she should be among the rulers of the world. Today she’s telling her following that she will work with Republicans and Democrats to create jobs “with dignity.” As we’ve seen over the last eight years of government growth, the policies that flow from progressive elites on the left simply do not work for the people. They do not result in opportunities or dignity for Americans. They do create conditions of trickle up poverty where the people are oppressed and blunted and the rich get richer.

The people may not have opportunity or extra money to spend right now, but we do have the ability to examine conditions in our lives and we do have the common sense to understand the causes. It doesn’t take a degree in computer science or a large portfolio of investments to understand that when the people, the workers, the innovators, the investors, the risk takers have more of their own money to spend and invest, money flows naturally and the economy grows.

The road to greater prosperity for all is lower tax rates and policies that encourage American business: low tax rates, cleaned up regulation, and trade policies that hold our trading partners accountable and work to our mutual benefit. Trump’s policy proposals address every one of these changes and if enacted they will create conditions for a growing and robust economy and a better future.

As I’ve often said, the rich will always get richer. They get rich under the policies of both democrats and republicans. The rest of us need opportunities to work, save, and build wealth.

The middle and poor classes have risen under conservative policies enacted by both republican and democrat presidents. It isn’t the party; it is the methodology that makes the difference. Our economy has grown and the middle and poor classes have done best under presidents Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton:

John Kennedy to Congress on tax reform on January 24, 1963: “Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for risk, investment and effort – thereby aborting our recoveries and stifling our national growth rate.”

Ronald Reagan: “You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”

Bill Clinton, at a fund raiser 1995: “Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget because you think I raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them too much, too.”

Bill Clinton said those words after Newt Gingrich and conservative republican took control of the House touting a Contract With America that promised to lower tax rates and reign in big government. Bill Clinton declared the “era of big government over” and embraced those policies in cooperation with Gingrich. It resulted in robust growth and job opportunity.

Conservative policies work whenever they are tried.

Carter and Obama are the examples of big government, job killing policies. Our economy suffered greatly under the leadership of both.

Hillary Clinton clings to the left’s position that when government takes high percentages of our earnings out of the private economy for government to spend the economy works. They try to make it palatable by offering free incentives and programs of redistribution. But the fly in the ointment is that these “fairness” policies act as a drag on the economy. 1%-2% growth over eight years is not enough for the middle class and poor to realize prosperity and experience upward mobility. It is not enough to allow the people opportunities to save for their futures, to save for college, or to buy a new home. It is not enough to entice college graduates out of the basement and into the workplace.

Why are progressive elitists worse than the robber barons? Because the old robber barons made a lot of money but they also created upward mobility and good jobs. And they didn’t see themselves as smarter wizards who could bring Utopia to the world under a single minded global ruling body.

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13 Responses to Progressive Global Elites Exposed as “Worse Than Robber Barons”

  1. Jack, will Butte County Taxpayer’s Alliance be offering any opposition to the O-ville sales tax increase?

  2. dewster says:

    Seriously this shows you have not a clue.

    Clinton’s are not Progressives, You still ignore Hillary is a conservative? Goldwater Girl? The Goldwater Logo Arrow to the right?

    You spend all this time trying to define things? That was crazy crap!

    Do something! Millions of US who want nothing to do with party politics are working on solutions. Pick an Issue dear to you and do something!

    What have you accomplished to fix things?

    You rail policies for the elite rule and try to divert it to a Party? They are in both parties darlin and trickle to the 1% bank accounts has failed.

    There are no jobs left. Robots are on their way in even for Retail workers.

    The USA sells Arms to fuel never-ending war that is the business we are in! Both parties support it. Partisan politics is feeding the elite trolls that are destroying our Freedom.

    Who are the elite donors running to Clinton? ……Republicans who like War Hawks

    • Tina says:

      “Hillary is a conservative”

      She hasn’t been a “Goldwater girl” since she went to Wellesley but please, explain to our readers what makes Hillary a conservative.

      “Millions of US who want nothing to do with party politics are working on solutions. ”

      Like what? Run around with hand painted signs railing against the establishment?

      I hate to tell you but that pony left the gate back in the sixties and has become the very thing it hated…the “establishment.” They have a Marxist agenda that doesn’t suit me. Many of them are corrupt; I don’t like that either.

      What do you stand for? What are your ideals?

      You are a guest here and all you do is complain, insult, and make noise like a crying baby.

      I express myself here and do what I can to defend the Constitution and the principles I believe make our nation great. I can explain how the principles I believe in work. Definitions are important; words mean things. You cannot communicate clearly, nor understand, without defining words and terms. (Which explains how you can think Hillary is a conservative and demonstrate ignorance regarding terms you use, like fascism)

      If you don’t like my contributions, buzz off. Nobody makes you read this blog. If you decide to stay please, let us know what the heck it is you want for America.

      • dewster says:

        Tina

        You are old enough to realize today’s conservative is an extremist that makes Goldwater turn in his Grave.

        Here is Hillary who will explain it to you.
        Hillary Clinton on NPR’s Weekend Edition

        “I feel Like My Political Beliefs are rooted in the conservatism I was Raised with”.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h15-tiVWk-0

        Remember Bill Clinton renamed the Party as the “New Democrats” “Third Wave Democrats”.

        Ya notice Pappy Bush and Slick Willie are very close? The Logo on the Hillary campaign s the Goldwater Arrow. Ya know the one on the Buttons he had?

        Critical Thinking? use it

        Today’s Conservative is rooted in the Koch Libertarian Brainwash.

        There is a Reason “Old Democrats” do not Like Hillary and The Republicans are flocking to her. There is a Reason she allowed the DNC to Use Karl Rove election fraud tactics. There is a Reason SHe is the Wall Street Candidate This cycle.

        Hillary is a DINO not at Democrat she is an Old school conservative.

      • dewster says:

        Tina Like work on an Issue and get it passed. like serve the public in office.

        Complaining gets nothing done. I went to DC, I helped get something passed to earn how. I TAKE ACTION.

        I have no party to protect. I want Truth and Justice not some fake political Idea to force on people.

        Where am I now? In Florida to rail Some Republican and Democrat crooks in their elections. Yep I am campaigning against crooks. I do not care what party you are in if you are a crook I will Primary you from the other side!

  3. Libby says:

    “Because the old robber barons made a lot of money but they also created upward mobility and good jobs.”

    That is a GD and wicked lie. Every time I hear about the lovely doings of, say, The Carnegie Foundation, I just want to spit … I want to dig the man up and mutilate the corpse … I implore of the creator his eternal suffering in hell … because there is nothing, ever, that any foundation can do to absolve the man of the squalid, miserable, impoverishment endured by his employees. Carnegie had union organizers killed.

    Your partisanism in this regard is nothing less than insane.

  4. Tina says:

    Libby your unwillingness to view history with an open, inclusive mind is per usual. Lord you are a hard person.

    PBS sees him as an important figure in American history. He saw himself as a progressive business man:

    One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life, Carnegie sold his steel business and systematically gave his collected fortune away to cultural, educational and scientific institutions for “the improvement of mankind.”

    Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, the medieval capital of Scotland, in 1835. The town was a center of the linen industry, and Andrew’s father was a weaver, a profession the young Carnegie was expected to follow. But the industrial revolution that would later make Carnegie the richest man in the world, destroyed the weavers’ craft. When the steam-powered looms came to Dunfermline in 1847 hundreds of hand loom weavers became expendable. Andrew’s mother went to work to support the family, opening a small grocery shop and mending shoes.

    “I began to learn what poverty meant,” Andrew would later write. “It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work. And then and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.”

    An ambition for riches would mark Carnegie’s path in life. However, a belief in political egalitarianism was another ambition he inherited from his family. Andrew’s father, his grandfather Tom Morrison and his uncle Tom Jr. were all Scottish radicals who fought to do away with inherited privilege and to bring about the rights of common workers.

    But Andrew’s mother, fearing for the survival of her family, pushed the family to leave the poverty of Scotland for the possibilities in America. She borrowed 20 pounds she needed to pay the fare for the Atlantic passage and in 1848 the Carnegies joined two of Margaret’s sisters in Pittsburgh, then a sooty city that was the iron-manufacturing center of the country.

    William Carnegie secured work in a cotton factory and his son Andrew took work in the same building as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week.

    Do you really think those union guys were sweet, kind and above reproach?

    No one knows which side shot first, but under a barrage of fire, the Pinkertons retreated back to their barges. For 14 hours, gunfire was exchanged. Strikers rolled a flaming freight train car at the barges. They tossed dynamite to sink the boats and pumped oil into the river and tried to set it on fire. By the time the Pinkertons surrendered in the afternoon three detectives and nine workers were dead or dying. The workers declared victory in the bloody battle…Carnegie found the upheaval and its aftermath a devastating experience. When British statesman William E. Gladstone wrote him a sympathetic note, Carnegie replied:

    This is the trial of my life (death’s hand excepted). Such a foolish step — contrary to my ideals, repugnant to every feeling of my nature. Our firm offered all it could offer, even generous terms. Our other men had gratefully accepted them. They went as far as I could have wished, but the false step was made in trying to run the Homestead Works with new men. It is a test to which workingmen should not be subjected. It is expecting too much of poor men to stand by and see their work taken by others. . . The pain I suffer increases daily. The Works are not worth one drop of human blood. I wish they had sunk.

    Carnegie would come back to Homestead six years later to dedicate a building that would house a library, a concert hall, a swimming pool, bowling alleys, and a gymnasium. However, the man who saw himself as a progressive businessman would always carry pain regarding the incident. “Nothing. . . in all my life, before or since, wounded me so deeply,” he wrote in his autobiography. “No pangs remain of any wound received in my business career save that of Homestead.”

    He sounds like a man that could be reasoned with. The union organizers were agitators who convinced the workers to adopt the same attitude you display. A sense of entitlement and demands that are unreasonable is the inevitable end with that attitude. Nobody wins. (See Detroit)

    People with money are not the monsters you make them out to be and workers are not helpless angels either.

    • Tina says:

      The progressives that want to transform America are continuously morph to hide their true intentions. The history behind the revolutionary left can be traced, however.

      The things progressives say and what they actually intend and do are very different things.

      Obama ran on hope and change. Everyone thought he’d make their lives better.

      Economic conditions – stagnant 1.4% average growth; business downsizing, restructuring, eliminating jobs, cost of living rising, wages not keeping pace, shrinking middle class, rising poverty, home ownership down, rich making money in stock market propped up with federal cash rather than real growth.

      Jobs – absolutely pathetic – highest number of people out of the workforce in fifty years, black unemployment high, new jobs part time and low paying, big companies replacing workers with foreign workers at lower wages, college grads living with parents working at Starbucks.

      Healthcare: insurance costs rising, deductibles too high, 30 million still uninsured, doctors forced out of private practice not taking new patients, biggest insurance companies opting out, traffic to emergency rooms up, not down, etc.

      Security conditions – worse under Obama: porous border, increased terror attacks, refugee crisis, criminal aliens released into our communities…

      War on terror…a disaster – rise of ISIS, spread of ISIS, increase lone wolf attacks, disastrous Iran deal, Middle East on fire, Benghazi disaster.

      Progressives leave disaster in their wakes. They talk a good game and that’s the challenge for the American people. Are we that gullible that we can’t see the very conditions we live in?

      • dewster says:

        YAWN

        Tina you read Propaganda Like it is true.

        I suppose Christopher Columbus discovered the New World as well?

        You Blame instead of learn. The gov is ran by the elite. They are not Republican or Democrat.

        Read The Powell Memo They hated the people gaining power.

      • Libby says:

        Good Lord, you rebut with the drivel his foundation puts out??

        Hopeless.

  5. Peggy says:

    Progressives have historically created our problems, then they deny they were responsible and blame others for the economic mess they created. The pattern is always the same. First they set up the emotion of fear about the mess they created, then they step in like Mighty Mouse flying in to “Save the day” by selling themselves as the hope and change solution.

    Create the crisis, hype the fear, become the savior to advance the progressive agenda. Repeat and repeat until the goal of a socialist state is complete where the elites are in total control and the workers are dependent upon their masters for their very existence. This agenda has worked only because so many have been convinced they’re not smart enough to take care of themselves and need someone else more capable like the gov’t to do it for them.

    It amazes me that modern day progressive liberals don’t see the US morphing into the gov’t our founders and immigrants past and present fled their native countries for.

  6. dewster says:

    Tina the Robber Barron’s of today are many of the same families of the past. They have no party. They play both sides when necessary. But fact is they usually hang out on Republican side.

    One can find Pictures of the Clinton’s or the bush’s with the Rothschild’s, Bilderbergs, ect ect ect.

    WHat is a shame is we do not have a complete list of names in the dirksten report on the fascist coup of 1934. We know Morgan is One. We know Prescott Bush is one.

    If ya look at which names were supporting Hitler after the war started ya can guess.

    Soros, Koch ect are the well known new names but there are about 47 main robber barons.

    When do the saintly republican Unicorns and Fairies show up to save the world since everything wrong is because of Liberals and Democrats. A Republican can do no Wrong?

    Why do you hate Democracy so much? Why must one of 2 corrupt Political parties be protected from their own crimes?

    We have been waiting a long time.

    When they get here can they explain GW to US?

  7. Tina says:

    PBS ran the information Libby.

    You’re so narrow minded. Do you really believe union workers weren’t violent?

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