Learning Lessons About Elites

Latest Polls (view all)

Where do you stand on the Transgender Issue now that the issue has gotten to the overt point of the open celebration of this lifestyle choice, dictated by certain direct and explicit actions.

91.07% I do not approve of behavior that has within its expressed tenants policies that harm children.

8.04% I do support the Trans Community in all its many facets because diversity is at a premium in today's society.

0.89% What is a "Children's Drag Queen Story Hour?"

Click Here to Vote
112 Vote(s)

View all Polls

Learning Lessons About Elites

Published: Thursday, December 31st, 2020 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation ( More Entries )

Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Mitch Kokai.

John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist highlights lessons that 2020 taught us about American elites.

For as difficult as the past year has been, from politics to the pandemic, it has at least helped to illuminate and clarify certain things about the state of our country.

Above all, 2020 has illuminated and clarified the relationship between America's elites — in government, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, corporate America and the corporate press — and everyone else. In short, our elites believe, contra Thomas Jefferson, that most people were born with saddles on their backs while a favored few were born booted and spurred to ride them, legitimately.

The rigors and suffering the coronavirus pandemic brought on again demonstrated the perseverance, resilience, and generosity of the American people, but also exposed, sometimes in mind-boggling detail, the greed, hypocrisy, and indifference of our elites.

We like to think we live in a country where everyone, rich and poor alike, is equal before the law. But we know now, thanks to the exigencies and emergencies of 2020, that isn't true — or at least it's only true sometimes, when the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to weigh in and enforce equal treatment.

But left unchecked, as many of our leaders were over the past year, we all know what they will do. In no particular order, then, here are the five big things we learned about America and its elites in 2020.

This year we learned Democrats aren't the "party of science," and in fact don't care about science at all — especially if it gets in the way of their policy agenda or the exercise of emergency powers. ...

... All over the country, elected officials — almost all of them Democrats — were spotted flouting their own pandemic rules and restrictions. ...

... Especially in blue states and cities, elected officials opted for pandemic restrictions that disproportionately harmed small businesses and working families, while giving generous carve-outs and exemptions to special interests.

Go Back

Login to Leave a Comment

Democrats Engage in Right-To-Work Deception

John Locke Foundation Guest Editorial, Editorials, Op-Ed & Politics

Supreme Court Faces Big Decisions Again in 2021

Our Members

ENCN Sign Up

BCN Home

Beaufort Observer

Portfolios

Current Events: A Historical Perspective

Current Weather

Latest Comments

Latest Polls

Featured Entries

Latest Entries

Learning Lessons About Elites | Eastern NC Now

Learning Lessons About Elites

Leave a Guest Comment

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

American Upset Caps Off Wild UFC Night

Our Founding Principles: The Beginning of the American "Experiment"

Is this why chief Justice John Roberts has long been sandbagging conservatives?

Florida bans illegal aliens from admission to state colleges and universities

It was the Biden FBI that sent a mole into Gavin Newsome's inner circle on criminal probe

French mother schedules march, calls for "war" after 5 migrant teens lynch her 17 y.o. son

Are American public schools destroying what made America great?

new poll - 62% of Democrats would vote for a socialist, Dems prefer socialism over capitalism

:Appeals Court overturns Biden judge on park services signs disparaging American heroes

General who directed Afghan withdrawal debacle is fired, and the left howls about it

Vance’s Most Trusted Adviser To Depart Trump Administration

Federal court backs Tennessee law making illegal presence by migrant a state crime

America at 250: Will we keep what we have been given?

Stein creates bipartisan healthcare affordability commission

The OnlyFans Success Story That’s Missing A Dark Reality

SCOTUS gives US citizenship to babies of Chinese birth tourists and illegal aliens

Now it is a Congress seat in CO - Far left socialist takes out another liberal Democrat in primary

Peru becomes latest Latin American country to swing to the right as conservative wins presidency

Supreme Court upholds laws restricting women's sports to REAL women and keep men out

Rally set for Raleigh to pressure RINO Senator Tillis on SAVE America Act

Maybe it is not Republican Sanitizing, Maybe it is Sanitation

Everything You Heard About Trump And NBA Finals Security Was A Lie

Al Gore's climate movie has been proven wrong, but he refuses to admit it

Truth for our times: Glory to come, Lumbee reject casino, Usha Vance Frugal Fashion

Justices Thomas & Alito blast rogue district judges who ignore SCOTUS rulings and the Law

Parents seek punitive damages against school board for pushing LGBTQ propaganda on kids

Now it is South Africa ramping up mass deportation of illegal aliens