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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people really care about what the truly elite do and have? My life is happy, fulfilling, and meaningful. I’m not struggling and have everything I could want. I could care less that families at these schools have more than I do. It just doesn’t impact me or my kids. Let them live their life. You live your life. [/quote]

You should care about it because these are the folks who in many ways end up running the country on so many levels and make decisions that will directly affect you and your family [/quote]

Do you think taking away their private schools is going to change that?  Do you think people BECOME members of the elite class by attending elite schools, or do you think that a school becomes elite because members of the elite class choose to send their children there?[/quote]

The thing that surprised me the most was that these schools are offering way more advanced classes-- advanced math, organic chemistry. If kids are taking those courses, then kudos to them. I'd love a country run by people good at math who understand science. I mean, you think of it just being entitled rich lazy kids like the Trumps, but this, this I'll take. [/quote]

This is peak liberalism. "I'm okay with hierarchy, I just want it science-y!"[/quote]

could you explain how this is peak liberalism?[/quote]

Sure, liberalism has historically had an egalitarian streak, rooted in the Enlightenment. This is the liberalism of Thomas Paine, Andrew Jackson, Henry George - the liberalism that gave us social security. But there's a competing liberal tendency toward technocracy and meritocracy, not leveling hierarchies, but making sure the competition for the top spots is fair and rigorous. This is the liberalism of Walter Lippmann and Pete Buttigieg - the liberalism that brought us Obamacare and the Vietnam War. The statement that you're okay with elites ruling you as long as they're versed in science and math is peak the second kind of liberalism, though since that's about all that's remaining today it would have been redundant to specify that.[/quote]

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