The price of education and elitism

For decades the conventional wisdom has held that the only way to get ahead in American society was to acquire a college degree.

The public (non)education system, the propaganda media and government men all pushed this notion on the American public all the while covering up that they were plundering the system and encouraging America's poor and middle class to rack up mounds of oppressive debt in pursuit of a college diploma.

The goal, of course, was not to make America's youth smarter, though that's the outcome that the deceived masses sought and thought they would achieve. The goal of the globalist institutions of "higher learning," their crony bankster partners and bought politicians was four more years — or six or eight or more — of indoctrination and state worship.

While some of the propaganda was overt — a bachelor's degree is required if you want to work in job X — most of it was covert. The media and politicians' message was that pursuing careers in occupations requiring one to get his hands dirty was the work for the less intelligent among us. The implication from this is obvious: only people who can't be educated work with their hands.

Every election season we heard about how the "uneducated" voter would vote; usually described by the propaganda media as voting against his best interests. (As if the media politicians living in their conventional wisdom bubble understood what would be in the "best interests" of the blue-collar middle-class worker.)

The beltway-coastal big city-academic elite have little patience and even less love for the American people who live outside the corridors of power and wealth. Recall Barack Obama's speech about "bitter clingers" and Hillary Clinton's speech about "deplorables." Now comes billionaire and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Last week, old video of Bloomberg surfaced in which he unveiled his own view of "deplorables." Interesting that it came on the heels of his pronouncement that he may select SHillary as his vice president candidate.

In the video, Bloomberg denigrates farmers and machinists as lacking the "gray matter" of people working the tech world and needed as America's economy transitions into a digital "utopia."

"I could teach anybody in this room" to be a farmer, Bloomberg told attendees at a 2016 gathering at the Oxford Said Business School. "It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.

"You put the piece of metal in the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow, and you can have a job."

What couldn't be taught to farmers and blue-collar workers, Bloomberg went on, were skills to relevant to the new economy.

"It's not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn," Bloomberg opined, "and so the challenge of society of finding jobs for these people, who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing."

Notice the sneering condescension from the nanny mayor who wouldn't know which end of a tractor to climb on and likely has never seen one that wasn't a photo in a John Deere annual report.

Today's farmer isn't a hayseed hick who scrapes the ground, throws out seeds and watches it grow. No successful farmer in history ever was. But to be successful today's farmer has to be a combination of geologist, meteorologist, chemist, botanist, veterinarian, mathematician, mechanic, software engineer, carpenter, welder, laborer and many other things. People like mini Mike wouldn't survive a day following in the footsteps of today's farmer.

Nor would he hold up working a day as a machinist, metal worker or fabricator.

Bloomberg was educated at Johns Hopkins and Harvard and made his wealth working in high finance and then creating computer software to compile data used by the world's biggest financial firms. Now he's spreading that wealth around like candy at Christmas parade as he tries to buy the Democrat nomination for president and, ultimately the presidency itself. While the elite Democrats and #NeverTrumps in the Republican Party seem content to sell their souls to Bloomberg in the name of Orange Man Bad, there are some in the Democrat Party who recognize the danger in placing an authoritarian socialist like Bloomberg anywhere near a position of power.

Videos have surfaced showing Bloomberg to be a self-important, condescending windbag who snivels at poor people, minorities, the elderly and babies. As mayor he enthusiastically endorsed a policy called stop-and-frisk in which police would grab people at random — young minority men mostly, but in practice anyone who looked "suspicious" — and search them for weapons and contraband. The policy — a blatant 4th Amendment violation — was finally ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.

He has said that blacks aren't very smart, can't speak English and has claimed blacks and Latinos don't know how to act at work. He has endorsed death panels that determine when a person is too old to continue receiving medical treatment, and hinted that some diseases in young people shouldn't be treated but acknowledges "society isn't there yet." He also supports the unlimited murder of the soon-to-be-born up until the moment of birth. He often speaks quite fondly of Chinese Communism.

While mayor of New York he banned large soft drinks, salt, Styrofoam containers, trans-fats in restaurant foods, flavored tobacco, smoking in public and some private spaces and many other things he opposed because he knows better how the plebeians of society should live.

The people, Bloomberg believes, are ignorant rubes who must be first coerced into making "good" choices — with good being whatever Bloomberg decides — and if that doesn't work, forced into those choices by draconian laws.

This authoritarian mindset is not unique to Bloomberg. It is shared by all (or at least essentially all) of the progressive left and the overwhelming majority of so-called conservatives in the Republican Party establishment (GOPe). It's also the belief system held by much of the millennial crowd that have spent years in higher education pursuing bachelor's degrees and more.

Many of these same millennials are now saddled with massive, bone-crushing education debt that earned them diplomas with worthless degrees. They've found that promises made them by their "betters" that a college education was the key to success were lies. It's little wonder they are attracted to the communism — and promises of debt forgiveness — that Bloomberg and his socialist/communist pals are peddling.

The political process is a facade of government that satisfies the quest for political choices. It is an illusion unrelated to reality and political participation by the people. It is, however, the perfect system for keeping the people focused on empty nonsense year after year. People totally misunderstand the nature of government. Otherwise they would know that there is no such thing as political choices or political freedom.

We are oppressed by government and most people are unaware of it because they themselves have assumed government morality from childhood as outlined above. It is impossible to change what you believe in your heart. If you are taught that democracy means freedom of political choices, you never question it, and the facade of politics serves for reality. Any challenge to this paradigm is written off as nuttery or conspiracy.

The political process is a merry-go-round of phony politicians and platforms that can guarantee only one thing to the person; that is, eternal diversion, deception and exhaustion.

The American people are taught from birth that Americanism and patriotism demands and requires participation in politics. In this, guilt overrides common sense and reality. This unconscious stigma has enslaved many a soul for all his lifetime.

To power seekers, the most attractive government is some form of collectivism. It can be any name, but it must be collectivism. Collectivism is ideal for government expansion at the expense of the people. Collectivism attracts hard-wired psychopaths who use the system for cronyism and their aggrandizement. They care not one whit about constitutional government and the rule of law. They only care about a political facade to hide their chicanery.

The result is the collectivist American system that has gradually adopted the 10 planks of communism without Americans even being aware of it.

I share with you the list of Bloomberg's sociopathic authoritarian tendencies to counter the media propaganda and the hundreds of millions of dollars in bought advertising that's currently saturating the airwaves. I want to make sure you understand who these people are and how they really think so you can decipher what they say and recognize the code words they use to fool the mindless masses.
Everyone needs to be aware that when politicians tell you they will use government power to solve a problem or problems and make your life better, what they're really telling you is your life and liberties are being further sacrificed to the collective.

There is nothing lawmakers love more than making laws, even when they know their laws won't accomplish their stated purpose. This is particularly true of those laws that take more authority for the state, or if they enrich the fascist system. For lawmakers, the "unintended consequences" of their laws are just like gravy, because then they get to pass more laws to correct the unintended consequences. 

This, of course, leads to more "unintended consequences" and the passage of more laws.

Understanding this simple fact is essentially to preserving liberty.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston