"The leadership class often invokes the language of meritocracy. They say, 'Oh, we got to where we are through merit.' It’s time we actually said, 'Listen, you get to where you are partly because the system favors you.'"
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During a wide-ranging conversation with @bdomenech, Senator Hawley spoke to what he sees as the "crisis of our time" – the divide between our leadership elite and the working men and women of our country.https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/26/podcast-how-senator-josh-hawley-is-taking-on-silicon-valley-giants/ …
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"If you go to an elite institution and if you are wealthy, then your life prospects are great, and the system is set up to reward you."
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"But if you don’t have those opportunities or you choose not to take that path, your life prospects, your family prospects, your job prospects are much, much different."
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"That divide between our leadership elite and the great middle of our country, the heart of our country, that divide, I think, is the great crisis of our time. We cannot endure this division that we have in this country. And I think addressing that is the need of this hour."
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I was very impressed. Hawley has a future! Just don't make it too long and become another Senate dinosaur.
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Does our little Harvard and Yale grad see himself as a working man?
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And the solution is to let the leadership elite censor the internet instead of the people who work at the companies running it? Really?
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