Reply #1: This is a brilliant analysis

[teryang]

Thanks for posting.

I disagree with the authors usage of the term elites. The repuke party is the party of the elites, the old elites. The owners of the older capital intensive infrastructure. These older elites are threatened by the free-wheeling creativity of the parvenues of high technology and communications. They view the world from the apex of their fuedal corporate pyramids.

They are also heavily dependent upon government largesse, government contracts, subsidies, and favoritism in legislation and foreign policy or they can't be competitive. They are so uncompetitive and lacking in creativity that they pursue wide scale frauds and now advocate war and seizure of resources (colonialism) as a profitable activity. The anti-elite posturing of repuke demogogues is actually nothing more than obsurantism designed to knee cap the creative intellectuals spearheading social and economic change to the relative financial and social decline of traditional American elites from the heavy industries.

The obscuratism of the media, the increasing secrecy and manipulation of government, the promotion of intolerance and theocracy, and the manufacture of phony threats to repress the population, the unjustified ruthless wars and coups, are warning signs to anyone with half a brain, that maybe they should start looking for a better place to live while they have a chance.