Why Are The Ruling Elites So Incompetent?

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Why Are The Ruling Elites So Incompetent
Frank Furedi

Watching the drama unfold around the demise of Prime Minister Liz Truss, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that members of the nation’s ruling elites have become performers in a non-ending political circus. The sight of petty squabbling in Parliament is dispiriting and what makes matters worse is the realisation that the problem is not her. Authoritative leadership is conspicuous by its absence. Nor is this merely a British phenomenon. The entire western world has become leaderless. Mention the names of Joe Biden, Olaf Scholtz or Emmanuel Macron, and you struggle to find a hint of inspiration and effective leadership in their demeanour.

Arguably the most distinctive characteristic of the Western ruling class in the 21st century is its ineffectiveness. They resemble second-rate managers who are far more interested in making problems go away than in resolving them.

The ineffectiveness of the Western ruling class is most strikingly evident in the domain of foreign affairs. The West’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan highlighted its absence of geopolitical vision. Its lack of clarity was further exposed by the embarrassingly ignorant manner in which western leaders conduct their geopolitical affairs. When the then British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confused the Baltic and the Black Sea while pledging to support Ukraine, she let the world know that she was not on top of her brief. Similar blunders by President Biden – such as confusing Hungarians with Ukrainians – are not simply an expression of personal defects. They are symptomatic of a cavalier and unprofessional approach towards leadership that characterises the behaviour of the western foreign policy elites
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Duh. Who needs some blogger to tell us the answer?

Because stupid people vote for Republicans/"conservatives" because they want daddy to fix all their problems instead of doing the hard work and sacrifice themselves. We have more stupid people than we should.

"I love the poorly educated." -- Der Gropingfuehrer.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Duh. Who needs some blogger to tell us the answer?

Because stupid people vote for Republicans/"conservatives" because they want daddy to fix all their problems instead of doing the hard work and sacrifice themselves. We have more stupid people than we should.

"I love the poorly educated." -- Der Gropingfuehrer.
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so dems are the party of hard work?
maybe in slave camps.

:okjen:
 
The Elites are obviously NOT ruling.

If the true Elites, the brightest and best, were leading us, we'd never be as pitifully fucked as we are now.

The Joe Sixpack crowd seems to be in control in too many places, and the way our moron founders framed the constitution, it brings us all down.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Why Are The Ruling Elites So Incompetent
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Now does Frank Furedi distinguish between the "elitists," the "revolutions," the "deep staters," the "wokists," the "globalists, the "bus drivers," and who knows whatever entity you can fabricate, or does he just wrap them all up into one generalizations as you do?
 
NiftyNiblick said:
The Elites are obviously NOT ruling.

If the true Elites, the brightest and best, were leading us, we'd never be as pitifully fucked as we are now.

The Joe Sixpack crowd seems to be in control in too many places, and the way our moron founders framed the constitution, it brings us all down.
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Did you read it?

This guy routinely makes good points.
 
archives said:
Now does Frank Furedi distinguish between the "elitists," the "revolutions," the "deep staters," the "wokists," the "globalists, the "bus drivers," and who knows whatever entity you can fabricate, or does he just wrap them all up into one generalizations as you do?
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I paint a big picture, and I do it very well.

That's what the education was for.
 
Very Good:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1585504991854239744

Piece by piece, woke activists are assembling a private version of China’s social credit system, which can cut off individuals who run afoul of ideological orthodoxy from acquiring educational credentials, practicing a trade, or engaging in political speech. While Trotskyist entryists spent decades trying to infiltrate and influence social democratic parties and trade unions, woke entryists in only a decade and a half have captured many of the leading communications, sales, and financial platforms in modern society, along with professional associations and universities. Leon Trotsky would be impressed.
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One response to entryism that is doomed to failure is debate. Self-described “classical liberals” who call on social media platforms, professional accrediting agencies, nonprofits, and universities to embrace “viewpoint diversity” are wasting their time. It is no more possible to persuade the commissars in corporate HR departments, professional accreditation agencies, social media platforms, or university diversity offices to allow nonwoke views than it would have been to persuade Trotskyist conspirators who had infiltrated and captured a labor union during the Cold War to be open to debates among Trotskyists, Stalinists, social democrats, and libertarians. Having entrenched themselves in massive, powerful bureaucracies, these zealots will not willingly relax their grip on bureaucratic chokepoints. Why should they?
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And, this election will likely harm the Revolution barely at all.
 
Obviously I am taking it as a matter of faith that TOP! and I are not the only ones here interested in getting ourselves educated, that there are a few more of us Better People.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I paint a big picture, and I do it very well.

That's what the education was for.
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"Education" :)

Liz Truss tried the same bullshit all Republicans try, including trump - unfunded tax cuts - and it blew up in her face. So trump must be one of your "ruling Elitists".

You are really, really stupid. You contradict and trap yourself all the time. So sad for you.
 
LurchAddams said:
"Education" :)

Liz Truss tried the same bullshit all Republicans try, including trump - unfunded tax cuts - and it blew up in her face. So trump must be one of your "ruling Elitists".

You are really, really stupid. You contradict and trap yourself all the time. So sad for you.
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shut your deep state military industrial complex lie-hole, you fucksauce whore.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
The Elites are obviously NOT ruling.

If the true Elites, the brightest and best, were leading us, we'd never be as pitifully fucked as we are now.

The Joe Sixpack crowd seems to be in control in too many places, and the way our moron founders framed the constitution, it brings us all down.
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the elites are mass murdering big pharma nazi warmongers.

the people need to oust them.
 
AssHatZombie said:
they've become too sure of themselves, thinking they can just lie all the time and everything will be fine.

repeating the lies became the mode of upward mobility, leaving competence to become secondary. so as the lies become bigger and bigger, competence becomes lesser and lesser.
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"It does not matter what is true or what is good, it only matters that I get mine, and I will so long as I sell the right narrative well".
 
lets see...

the wealthy have become massively MORE wealthy thanks to govt regulation and pillaging.

seems pretty damn effective to me.
 
Celticguy said:
lets see...

the wealthy have become massively MORE wealthy thanks to govt regulation and pillaging.

seems pretty damn effective to me.
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And they dont care about societal breakdown because they figure that if things get too bad they can always leave, and take their families with them.
 
Celticguy said:
lets see...

the wealthy have become massively MORE wealthy thanks to govt regulation and pillaging.

seems pretty damn effective to me.
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Indeed. For all their complaining about "infringements on their freedoms" the world's billionaires actually got richer during the height of the Covid pandemic, to the tune of about $4 trillion. Not bad.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-wealth-covid-pandemic-12-trillion-jeff-bezos-wealth-tax/

"The world's 2,365 billionaires enjoyed a $4 trillion boost to their wealth during the first year of the pandemic, increasing their fortunes by 54%, according to a new analysis by the Program on Inequality at the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies."
 
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