Thomas Whalen in Turmoil Over His Elitism Being Rejected By the "Elitist" Tea Party...

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Thomas Whalen of Boston University writing in US News and World Report has found elitism all smug as a bug in the .... Tea Party?

Recently the Tea Party movement has come under withering media attention for being something akin to a populist Hee-Haw for the great conservative unwashed masses. While most on the political left may snicker and nod their heads over these grossly distorted, over-the-top characterizations, I find myself in strong disagreement. I don't dislike the Tea Partyers or their message because they are somehow the spiritual and intellectual embodiments of Moe, Larry, and Curly. Rather, I dislike them because they are insufferably arrogant and unapologetic elitists. That's right, e-l-i-t-i-s-t-s.

Elitism by definition is when a group of people get together and announce to the society in which they live that they possess an inherently superior knowledge or understanding of the world around them. Those brave souls who have the temerity to disagree with their arrived consensus are stubbornly ignored or outright dismissed.

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Failures like Thomas Whalen would never survive in the real world of labor whether hand or mind, for his credentials seem not to be based on any meaning of the term meritocracy, but rather based on saying the appropriate things to the appropriate professors at the appropriate time. In short, this is a man who has earned his position not by jumping the hurdles of our meritocracy but rather seems to have had his position bestowed upon him for being so very like minded and agreeable to the liberal cabal of education.

Proof of this assertion is in the utter weakness of Thomas Whalen's central argument that the Tea Party is elitist. Thomas Whalen would have us think that the Tea Party is the source of their beliefs as indicated in bold above. Not true. The Tea Party simply does not choose Thomas Whalen and his cabal of theorists as their elitists of choice. They prefer the elitism of the Founding Fathers that put trust in them, the citizenry, over trust in government. Can you feel the pain of his rejection? All of Thomas Whalen's following arguments fail as a result. Of course, such feeble arguments are wholly acceptable to those who bestowed Thomas Whalen his tenure.

The Tea Party does not deserve the derision Thomas Whalen casts its way for having rejected his elitism in favor of Liberty and Constitutional Certitude as defined by men far greater than Thomas Whalen could ever aspire.

Will the whining of small men never end?


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