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WALZ (00:06):
I had 24 kids in my high school class and
none of them went to Yale.
PROFT (00:12):
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 anIvy League school was an accomplishment to be
celebrated in the America Field. Marshall Waltzenvisions it's an object of derision. The Ivy
League does not have the prestige it onceenjoyed. Frankly, William F. Buckley had it
sussed out pretty well in his book, God and Manat Yale, which was published in 1951. I doubt
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waltz read it, but of course, waltz is not beingcritical of what Yale is today and has been for
some time a totalitarian reeducation camp thatincubates antisemitism and all sorts of other
pathologies. Instead, Yale is used as a proxyfor East Coast elitism that Putatively stands in
stark contrast to the Midwest. Everyman Waltz ishappy to put on his costume and prance around
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stage as the new Bolshevik's latest mascot.While the Ivy League educated Barack Obama spins
yarns about the flannel shirts in Waltz'sCloset. 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 SiliconValley piece.
BEATTY (01:23):
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 withbillionaires. While trashing our communities,
PROFT (01:42):
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 asyou blow the bridge behind you and join the
ranks of the vanguard. You know the set thatprotects democracy from the people. You'll find
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them in places like the Ivy League, SiliconValley Congress, and anywhere else that presents
the chance to Lord over others. However, thehypocrisy 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
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agency. Alternatively, if you do get out of aplace like Appalachia, you overcame what most do
not and cannot because you are smarter,stronger, better.
Welcome to the Vanguard, these competingideologies where one is either award of the
state or a Messiah have two commoncharacteristics, force and entitlement. The
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vanguard is entitled to take what it wants fromwhom it wants, and the words are entitled to
what they've been promised. This is a philosophythat subjects the entirety of civil society to
the state. Another illustration of what I'mdescribing comes from something my friend Bob
Woodson reminded me recently. While only two in10 college educated whites work for the
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government, six in 10 college educated blacksdo. This makes government the repository of
opportunity and those who had shrink it. Theenemy against this backdrop, what have the
Harris Walls Messiahs proposed previously andconcurrently, an end to private health
insurance, government price setting onprescription drugs and groceries, government
housing subsidies to compliment thesocialization of student loan debt and the
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taxation of unrealized investment gains.Therefore, yes, the criticism of Vance's
matriculation at Yale is cheap class envypolitics, but it is more pernicious than that.
It is an attack on initiative and individualwork product, which is fundamentally a
potentially unrecoverable assault on individualliberty. To know where the new Bolsheviks want
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to take us is to pay attention to thedestination they criticize, attending Yale and
General Servitude. I'm Dan Proft with theCounterculture Commentary.
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