The Face Of An American Elitist

We're posted this link to an article that appears at davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-elites-snobbish-reaction-to-brexit-is-the-reason-brexit-happened.

If you want to get an insight of the them-versus-us or us-versus-them theme Brexit symbolizes to see just how authentic it is, you need to read this article. Even more important you need to pass it on. It buttresses what we and others have been saying for a long, long time. Here's a quote to get you started from one of the American elitist crowd, Harvard economist Ken Rogoff. It gives a good account of how these elitists view the rest of us. Never, however, make the mistake that this is something new.

On op-ed pages, there was a lot of the same. Harvard economics professor and chess grandmaster Kenneth Rogoff wrote a piece for the Boston Globe called “Britain’s democratic failure” in which he argued:
“This isn’t democracy; it is Russian roulette for republics. A decision of enormous consequence… has been made without any appropriate checks and balances.”
Rogoff then went on to do something that’s become popular in pundit circles these days: He pointed to the lessons of antiquity. Going back thousands of years, he said, Very Smart People have warned us about the dangers of allowing the rabble to make decisions.
“Since ancient times,” he wrote, “philosophers have tried to devise systems to try to balance the strengths of majority rule against the need to ensure that informed parties get a larger say in critical decisions.”
Presumably playing the role of one of the “informed parties” in this exercise, Rogoff went on:

“By some accounts… Athens had implemented the purest historical example of democracy,” he wrote. “Ultimately, though, after some catastrophic war decisions, Athenians saw a need to give more power to independent bodies.”
This is exactly the argument that British blogging supernova Andrew Sullivan unleashed a few months ago in his 8,000-word diatribe against Donald Trump, “Democracies end when they are too democratic.”
Like Rogoff, Sullivan argued that over-democratic societies drift into passionate excesses, and need that vanguard of Very Smart People to make sure they don’t get themselves into trouble.

In short, you the rabble can have our gift to you of voting your choice, but we the superior humans of the planet need to have our checks and balances to override whenever you make a mistake and exceed your mental capacity. Mistake here, of course, means voting for something they in their superior intellect disagree with.