This whole discourse of "elitism" is weird because evidently the bar you have to clear to be part of the "elite" is really low. Basically, just get an education, move to a prosperous city, and get a job with good pay, and that's it.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1439669559926013952 …
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That's a good description. Still, I wonder, how much of this "distrust of elite/institutions" is sincere, vs. deployed strategically for political purposes. Until recently people trusted their doctors; then their doctors started telling them something they didn't want to hear …
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… Then, the doctors became a distrusted institution. Many of the same people who purport to distrust "government" have a great deal of trust in the police and military, except back in the 1990s, when Waco and Ruby Ridge were in the news many of those same people thought the …
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