Comments on: Elites http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/04/16/elites/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elites n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Russell Arben Fox http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/04/16/elites/comment-page-1/#comment-10043 Russell Arben Fox Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:17:02 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/16/elites/#comment-10043 Patrick Deneen's and my discussion over what constitutes a <a href="http://inmedias.blogspot.com/2008/04/true-and-defensible-populism.html" rel="nofollow">"true and defensible populism,"</a> and the degree to which it is invariably "elites" who are the one's searching for it, may be of some relevance here. Patrick Deneen’s and my discussion over what constitutes a “true and defensible populism,” and the degree to which it is invariably “elites” who are the one’s searching for it, may be of some relevance here.

]]> By: Grumpy Old Man http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/04/16/elites/comment-page-1/#comment-10041 Grumpy Old Man Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:58:37 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/16/elites/#comment-10041 <blockquote>“GOP support for such [social] values is akin to the Democratic Party’s professed devotion to the “working poor”: each is a ploy to get votes, trotted out seasonally, quickly forgotten once the polls close.” </blockquote>Name your poison; pick your party. Here's Robert Frost:<blockquote>Some say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.</blockquote>

“GOP support for such [social] values is akin to the Democratic Party’s professed devotion to the “working poor”: each is a ploy to get votes, trotted out seasonally, quickly forgotten once the polls close.”

Name your poison; pick your party. Here’s Robert Frost:

Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

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