I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale.
I'm old enough to remember when the notion of a kid who didn't come from money and wasn't part of a legacy family, getting into an Ivy League school was an accomplishment to be celebrated in the America Field. Marshall Waltz envisions it's an object of derision. The Ivy League does not have the prestige it once enjoyed. Frankly, William F. Buckley had it
sussed out pretty well in his book, God and Man at Yale, which was published in 1951. I doubt waltz read it, but of course, waltz is not being critical of what Yale is today and has been for some time a totalitarian reeducation camp that incubates antisemitism and all sorts of other pathologies. Instead, Yale is used as a proxy for East Coast elitism that Putatively stands in stark contrast to the Midwest. Everyman Waltz is happy to put on his costume and prance around
stage as the new Bolshevik's latest mascot. While the Ivy League educated Barack Obama spins yarns about the flannel shirts in Waltz's Closet. To know the new Bolsheviks is to listen to their descriptions of their opposition. Building on this revealing line of attack, Ohio, representative Joyce Beatty added the Silicon Valley piece.
Now, JD Vance likes to talk about how he's from Ohio, but as soon as he could, he ran away to Yale and Silicon Valley Co in up with billionaires. While trashing our communities,
One might wonder Representative Beatie, did Bill Clinton also run away when he left rural Arkansas for Georgetown and then Yale Law? Well wonder no more. It is okay to escape an area with a scarcity of opportunity so long as you blow the bridge behind you and join the ranks of the vanguard. You know the set that protects democracy from the people. You'll find them in places like the Ivy League, Silicon Valley Congress, and anywhere else that presents
the chance to Lord over others. However, the hypocrisy is the least offensive aspect of this ridicule. The message is you have two options. If you are poor, stay put. They have a program for you and it comes with a lifetime guarantee. All you have to do is sign away your individual agency. Alternatively, if you do get out of a place like Appalachia, you overcame what most do not and cannot because you are smarter, stronger, better.
Welcome to the Vanguard, these competing ideologies where one is either award of the state or a Messiah have two common characteristics, force and entitlement. The vanguard is entitled to take what it wants from whom it wants, and the words are entitled to what they've been promised. This is a philosophy that subjects the entirety of civil society to the state. Another illustration of what I'm describing comes from something my friend Bob
Woodson reminded me recently. While only two in 10 college educated whites work for the government, six in 10 college educated blacks do. This makes government the repository of
opportunity and those who had shrink it. The enemy against this backdrop, what have the Harris Walls Messiahs proposed previously and concurrently, an end to private health insurance, government price setting on prescription drugs and groceries, government housing subsidies to compliment the socialization of student loan debt and the
taxation of unrealized investment gains. Therefore, yes, the criticism of Vance's matriculation at Yale is cheap class envy politics, but it is more pernicious than that. It is an attack on initiative and individual work product, which is fundamentally a potentially unrecoverable assault on individual liberty. To know where the new Bolsheviks want to take us is to pay attention to the destination they criticize, attending Yale and
General Servitude. I'm Dan Proft with the Counterculture Commentary. Please like this video and subscribe to this channel if you haven't already, and please leave a comment in the comment section. We'd love to hear your thoughts.