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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bowman, James

Titel

Meritless meritocracy

Ist Teil von

• The New Criterion, 2024-01, Vol.42 (5), p.1-6

Ort / Verlag

New York: Foundation for Cultural Review

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Not so long ago, such a saying would have been political suicide, but, like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Cuomo must have recognized that his party's constituency, consisting of his fellow meritocrats and the various notionally oppressed minorities of whom they claimed to be the protectors, no longer has room in it for the great mass of patriotic Americans. There are reasons for thinking, however, that this success has not much longer to run-and not only because of populist successes in other parts of the world or Mr. Trump's lead in the polls, at this writing, over his Republican competitors as well as Mr. Biden. Since October 7 Middle America has been witness to the true ugliness of our elite college campuses' privileged youth, all of them presumptive future members of the meritocracy themselves, harassing and intimidating their Jewish classmates while demonstrating in favor of a pack of vicious terrorists and murderers and against one of America's longest-standing and most loyal allies. Yesterday's King's Speech was rather like those low-fat spreads that pretend to be butter. The things they do want, however, were barely mentioned by the King: lower taxes; cheaper food; better roads; an end to the relentless persecution of motorists and landlords; a more robust police force; tougher sentencing for shoplifting and eco vandalism; tougher laws to combat hate crime; facing up to the absurdity of the proposed gender and trans laws in Scotland; a more efficient nhs; a self-sufficient, long-term energy policy; not to mention stopping the profligacy of giving millions to India and China-or, nearer to home, HS2 and net zero.