Haha, that is too funny.
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By what standard is it meritocratic? Has urban, fiscal and foreign policy gotten better over the past few decades?
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It's meritocratic in the sense that it's globalized and rewards smart people who are good at making money.
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A certain amount of tribal "assabiya" helps too, I'm sure. Regardless, the funny thing is that there's an >
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> obvious elephant in the room in such conversations, and Brooks is probably too self-unconscious to even notice.
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Being from a market-dominant minority background myself, I don't feel the need to be squeamish about such things.
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I'm half-Brahmin but I wouldn't want America to be run by Indian elites, meritocratic or not--Wouldn't be America
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Half-Brahmin, does that mean you've memorized half of the Vedic hymns?

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Kennedy was who lead America into Vietnam, & he was Catholic, not Protestant.
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Robert McNamara was Irish Catholic, too. You going to say Vietnam War had nothing to do with him?
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Didn't post-Protestant establishment JFK get us into Vietnam?
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Catholic Micks got us into Vietnam.
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tempting to respond to that idiot that 'meritocratic' establishment is pissing away protestant establishment's achievements
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Sorry, no time to read Brooks. Still struggling with sandwich menu.
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However, guess it is quite possible that establishment is an entire section of society, from top to bottom.
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Does Dave have a sad. :(
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