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RUSH: As many of you people who have listened to this program for any length of time at all know, I am fascinated by how people think. That is something that interests me more than a lot of other things about people, is how they think. I\u2019m always fascinated with what I learn. Well, some people don\u2019t think. Well I mean studiously think, everybody thinks, brain activity, but some people are just reactionary or they\u2019re parrots, or they\u2019re parasites or what have you. But as I look for reasons, and I\u2019m interested in reasons why there is a cultural divide. I\u2019m interested in reasons why there\u2019s a political divide. I know who liberals are, but it doesn\u2019t compute with me. I could never be one. Therefore, I love to know how they think or how they feel, what is it that makes them. And in the process of doing this, it has been a worthwhile exercise on my part because that is why I am able to tell you in advance who they are and what they\u2019re going to do, because this has led to a lifelong study of these people. And liberals are capable of being typecast. There\u2019s not a whole lot of individuality within the sphere of liberalism, because they are guided by and governed by their political beliefs. <\/p>\n

Now, I have an opportunity to engage in such an exercise this very day. There is a column in the Washington Post by a woman by the time Anne Applebaum. Now, I think I might have referenced things in past columns she\u2019s written; I don\u2019t remember. But the name rings a bell. But beyond that, I don\u2019t know who she is, she\u2019s just a columnist. And the title of her column is, ‘The Rise of the ‘Ordinary\u2019 Elite.\u2019 Now, you and I have been discussing elites for quite a while on this program, the inside the Beltway ruling class elites. This piece that she has written affords us an opportunity to find out how the elites think about elitism, and it\u2019s much different than the way you and I think about it, strikingly so. Let me demonstrate. Here\u2019s how she begins the piece. <\/p>\n

‘In 1958, an English sociologist and Labor Party politician named Michael Young imagined a future in which the British establishment dissolved itself, abolished all forms of hereditary power –‘ i.e., inheritance and so forth ‘– and created instead a meritocracy,\u2019 which is a word that Michael Young invented. The word meritocracy I guess is attributable to this guy in 1958, English sociologist, Labor Party politician Michael Young. So he imagined a future, the British establishment dissolved itself, abolished all forms of hereditary power — in other words, no Kennedys — and created instead a meritocracy based on IQ. ‘In Young\u2019s fable, the academically talented from the working class happily join the [ruling class.]\u2019 Now, stick with me. Stick with me on this. If you think you know where this is going, you don\u2019t. So he believed that — or he imagined or hoped for, it\u2019s a fable, a meritocracy based on IQ, the academically talented from the working class would happily join the elite, the ruling class. ‘But the less-talented resent them even more than they did the old dukes and duchesses. By 2034, this resentment leads to a violent populist revolution that sweeps the meritocracy away.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, remember, he\u2019s a sociologist and he\u2019s theorizing what would happen if certain dominoes fell in his theory. He wasn\u2019t wishing for this. He was just a thinker. He might have been wishing for it, I don\u2019t know. But whether or not he was, I\u2019m not judging him. It\u2019s not the point here. Don\u2019t get caught up. He\u2019s not the focus here. But he dreamed of one day where no longer are you somebody because of who your parents were. You\u2019re somebody because of what you are. But within the cohort of the working class you take the high achievers out of it, the high IQ, you put \u2019em in the ruling class, the remainder of the cohort working class so resents them more than they resented the inheritors of wealth, that they revolt against all ruling class people and wipe \u2019em out, and the meritocracy goes away, meaning meritocracy alone will not sustain a culture or a population. <\/p>\n

Ms. Applebaum says: ‘To some, this story has always seemed like a warning to America. In 1972, the American sociologist Daniel Bell cited it and predicted, with amazing prescience, the rise of an anti-elite-education populism. Bell got one thing wrong, however: He thought the coming attack on universities would take the form of enforced quotas and lowered standards. In fact, American universities staved off that particular populist wave in the 1970s by expanding their admissions to include women and minorities, while keeping standards high.\u2019 But, see, they didn\u2019t keep standards high. This is the dirty little secret. So in order to stave off this popular revolt against the elites, they let in members of the working class, women and minorities, while keeping standards high. But they didn\u2019t keep standards high. They had to lower standards to get these people in there. It was not a meritocracy. But even that is not the point here. <\/p>\n

Ms. Applebaum writes: ‘The result of that expansion,\u2019 meaning all those high IQ minorities and women getting into universities, ‘is now with us: Barack Obama, brought up by a single mother, graduate of Columbia and Harvard Law School, is president. Michelle Obama, daughter of a black municipal employee, graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, is first lady. They brought with them to Washington dozens more people, also from modest backgrounds, mostly not with inherited wealth, who have entered high government office thanks in part to their education. Not that Washington wasn\u2019t stuffed with such people already: Think of Clarence Thomas, son of a domestic servant and a farm worker, graduate of Yale Law School, Supreme Court justice.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So, let me stop and interpret this. In her estimation, this original theory of the sociologist in England, Michael Young, has happened. We now have an elite based on IQ, not inheritance or anything hereditary. We\u2019ve got it. This has happened and they are represented by Obama and Michelle and everybody they\u2019ve brought into town with them. Now, my question, do you and I consider the Obamas part of a meritocracy? Do we consider them elites to have come from one of us? We don\u2019t, do we? They have nothing in common with us. Meritocracy, keeping standards high? Where are all the articles Obama wrote while president of Harvard Law Review? Where are all the transcripts? Where\u2019s the evidence of all the high standards? But even that doesn\u2019t get to where I want to go here. Ms. Applebaum is ignoring something here that the English sociologist never conceived. Affirmative action. That\u2019s why the standards were not kept high. Even Michelle (My Belle) Obama admitted she woulda never gotten into Princeton or Harvard without it. Affirmative action was a lowering of standards. This is why people really didn\u2019t want to be considered affirmative action babies \u2019cause it was a stigma. You didn\u2019t get there on merit if affirmative action got you there. You got there because the way was paved for you. <\/p>\n

You see, you and I would argue that the way has been paved for Obama, whereas the way has not been paved for me. I struck out on my own. I mean there\u2019s nobody in my family who coulda pulled one string. Maybe if I\u2019d stayed in law they could have. We were talking about this on this show just the other day about how you and I, when I read Codevilla\u2019s piece, the work of the ruling class, the working class versus the ruling class, we are a meritocracy. You and I believe that you get where you go based on performance. If you do your job better than anybody else you\u2019ll be rewarded for it eventually with another job and another job and eventually it all pays off. We don\u2019t want to get where we get because of buzz. You know, there\u2019s a radio figure, I\u2019m not going to mention any names here, nobody ever listened to this radio figure but everybody thought he had all this power because five or six people in Washington did. But nobody else did. Yet he was thought to be among the most prominent, but in terms of meritocracy, no, never happened. And I always said I don\u2019t want to be a number one because of buzz. I don\u2019t want to be perceived number one because somebody in the media says I am. I want to be because it can be proven I\u2019m number one with the way we measure it, i.e., ratings and revenue. <\/p>\n

Well, the way Obama got to number one, apparently he can\u2019t show us the proof. The meritocracy, he will not show us the proof. You and I believe that somewhere along the way Obama had the way paved for him, that he had a professor or two somewhere that turned a C into an A, that there was some guilt over the plight Obama has had, he\u2019s a victim and so we\u2019re gonna make it good, the United States has been sort of unkind to people like Obama. Whereas you and I don\u2019t think a whole culture has stepped aside to pave the way for us. So I find this fascinating that Anne Applebaum looks at the Obamas and the czars that he\u2019s brought with him and his cabinet people, who have no experience earning a nickel, there\u2019s not one of them that\u2019s met a payroll, there\u2019s not one of them that has made a payroll, there\u2019s not one of them who\u2019s had a job. His business advisors, not one of them has ever worked in the private sector. And she writes a piece here that meritocracy, born of their IQ, has brought them to the highest levels you can achieve in American politics, and therefore they\u2019re elites because of their achievements. They are not elites because of inheritance.<\/p>\n

See, I submit you go to Harvard, you go to Yale, you go to Cornell or Princeton or all these Ivy League schools, that\u2019s the minor leagues, that\u2019s AA, AAA, that\u2019s where you\u2019re trained to be in government, that\u2019s where you\u2019re trained how to dress, how to speak, what kind of shoes to wear if you work at the State Department. That\u2019s where you\u2019re trained to navigate the ladder of success. If you don\u2019t get into those schools you have to do it on your own some other way. In other words, the fact that you went to Yale says more about you than what you say about yourself. The fact that you went to Harvard says more about you than what you\u2019ve actually done, just the fact that you got in. It doesn\u2019t matter what you did there. Not always. You could have a Harvard MBA and they still think you\u2019re an idiot, as in George W. Bush. But even so, all this talk about the ruling class, Angelo Codevilla\u2019s article which has now been turned into a book, Ruling Class Versus Country Class, we now have a piece in the Washington Post which posits that Obama is us and that Moochelle Obama is us and that Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are us because their IQ enabled them to achieve rank status in the elite. <\/p>\n

But on the other hand, you know, I\u2019ve achieved rank status at what I do, but I would never, ever be accepted. Sarah Palin, meritocracy? I mean she started from nothing, PTA, going to local school districts, wins elections, becomes governor, vice presidential nominee, never once would she be accepted into the elite that the Obamas are members of and everybody else in the Washington ruling class. I just find it fascinating to look how other people think. All this discussion of the elites, the ruling class, the working class, and I read a piece today from Anne Applebaum about whom I know very little, so not to be critical, don\u2019t misunderstand here. This all just fascinates me, helps me to understand who I\u2019m dealing with, helps me to understand what I\u2019m up against when I\u2019m trying to communicate with other people about who they are. It helps me to understand how they think of themselves. Okay, so they\u2019re not elites. They\u2019ve somehow succeeded in becoming elites by virtue of merit, yet they won\u2019t even prove the merit to us. <\/p>\n

They ignore affirmative action. They ignore the fact that the way was paved for Sonia Sotomayor, for Elena Kagan, for Moochelle Obama. She had a no-show job at a show hospital for 300 grand a year after her husband gets elected to the Illinois Senate. All fine and dandy, but that\u2019s the kind of stuff that hereditary connections get you, not merit. She didn\u2019t get the jobs \u2019cause she\u2019s better at it than anybody else. She got it because her husband has influence, closer to getting it because you inherited it than you achieved it. So they\u2019re the elite. This guy\u2019s theory from 1958 has now been proven, it\u2019s happened here. Now, if we carry this out, and there\u2019s much more to this. I\u2019m still only halfway through her piece here and I\u2019ve gotta take a break, but if we follow this through, the ascension to the ranks of the elite by the Obamas is going to so tick off everybody else in their working class circle that there\u2019s going to be a total overthrow of the elites? Well, that part may actually be true. What is happening here? It\u2019s Washington versus the rest of us. That\u2019s kinda what\u2019s shaking out here. The sociologist said this wasn\u2019t going to happen here until about 2034. It\u2019s 2010, so we\u2019re 24, 20 years ahead of schedule, if it happens. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you go to Wikipedia and you look up Anne Applebaum, here\u2019s what you\u2019ll find. Keep in mind this is Wikipedia. Anne Applebaum\u2019s ‘parents are Harvey M. Applebaum, a Covington and Burling partner, and Elizabeth Applebaum of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She graduated from the Sidwell Friends School (1982). She earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) at Yale University (1986), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. As a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics she earned a master\u2019s degree in international relations (1987).[4] She studied at St Antony\u2019s College, Oxford…\u2019 So she\u2019s pretty educated herself, a high-IQ elite. <\/p>\n

Now, this piece was originally written in Salon and it was about Christine O\u2019Donnell. Here\u2019s another passage from her column: ‘At one level, the use of ‘elite\u2019 to describe the new meritocrats simply means that the word has lost its meaning. As Jacob Weisberg points out, when Sarah Palin, Christine O\u2019Donnell or — bizarrely — Justice Thomas\u2019s wife fling the word ‘elitist\u2019 at opponents, it often means nothing more than ‘a person whose politics I don\u2019t like\u2019 or even ‘a person who is snobby.” Miss Applebaum, let me tell you the way we think. You all are not ‘elites\u2019 simply because you went to the Ivy League and have an impressive array of universities you\u2019ve attended. It\u2019s how you view the world, and it\u2019s how you view the American people. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s how you view what makes the country great. If you don\u2019t believe in American exceptionalism, how in the world can you believe in a meritocracy? But you don\u2019t. Most of the elites today think American exceptionalism, ‘(scoffs) That\u2019s pedantic! I mean, that\u2019s for the serfs. That\u2019s for the downtrodden. That\u2019s the carrot dangling at the end of the tunnel. Meritocracy? American exceptionalism? Tell \u2019em they can do that, too? Nah, nah. We know that\u2019s a bunch of BS.\u2019 That is how elites think, but the concept of American exceptionalism is very real. It\u2019s what\u2019s made this the greatest country on the face of the earth. <\/p>\n

The fact that it is smirked at by people who are elites and the fact that the people who make the country work are smirked at and looked down on, that\u2019s how we define elites; not where they went to school, and not what they\u2019ve achieved or not. It\u2019s their worldview, and the fact that they have superiority complex, think they\u2019re better than everybody else. Obama mentions ‘affirmative action\u2019 14 times in his second autobiography, second autobiography: Audacity of Hope. But he never, in 14 times of usage, he never uses it when talking about himself. It\u2019s like we said: Fish don\u2019t know they\u2019re wet, either. They don\u2019t know that they live in water. Obama doesn\u2019t know. If he had never been the editor of Harvard Law Review we\u2019d-a never have known who he was because he\u2019d-a never got a book contract!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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