The Rasmussen Reports center just
reported that the Elite 1% that use their
money and power to control most of
America’s social narratives, politics, and
general ‘orthodoxy’, are up to ten times more likely than the rest of voters to support their candidate cheating to win an election.
Rasmussen commented on the “amorality” of 70% of these super-elites, versus 7% of regular voters, are willing to support cheating to win elections may be the root cause of political dysfunction in America today
Rasmussen was motivated to do the poll after reading Charles Murray book “Coming Apart” that analyzed zip codes to prove that graduates from “dirty dozen” universities that tend to overwhelmingly cloister after graduation in the same dense zip codes, believe they are the modern aristocracy that has the type of contempt for rest of America that Hillary Clinton referred for anyone who did not support her president bid as a “basket of deplorables.”
Rasmussen characterized Elite 1%ers as generally having obtained a postgraduate degree, making over $150 grand a year, and live in a densely populated urban area. Typical Elite ages is 35-54, with 86% white and 73% Democrats,
The super-elites of the 1%ers that poll even more amoral tend to graduate from the so-called “Dirty Dozen” universities including: Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, John Hopkins, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkley, Princeton, Cornell, MIT and University of Chicago.
Rasmussen found moral issue differences that included:
1. Perception of individual freedom:
a) 57% of voters said there was not enough and 16% said too much b) 21% of Elites said there was too not enough and 47% said too much
2. Trust government to do the right thing:
a) 6% of voters trust government to do the right thing
b) 70% of Elites trust government to do the right thing
3. Trust in Professional and Managerial Class a) 6% of voters trust Professional and Managerial class b) 69% of elites trust in the Professional and Managerial class
4. Trust in Congress:
a) 6% of voters trust Congress
b) 70% of Elites trust Congress
5. Trust in Professors:
a) 17% of voters trust professors
b) 76% of Elites trust professors
6. Trust in Journalists:
a) 10% of voters trust journalists
b) 71% of Elites trust journalists
The bottom line is that Elites see professional managers, Congress, professors and journalists as the societal tier they hold. That is why 77% of Elites “would impose restrictions on gas, food rationing, etc., due to “climate change”, while 63% of regular voters oppose such measures.”
More than half of Elites would also “support bans of gas-powered vehicles, wood stoves, SUVs, non-essential air travel, and even air conditioning while the vast majority of voters are totally against.”
Rasmussen states that Elites have purposefully erected ideological enforcement mechanisms meant to sweep the ‘correct people’ to the top of the pyramid, while gate-keeping out the “undesirables not blue-blooded enough for the exclusive soiree.” Elites like setting rules for the unwashed masses, because they personally can chose which rules they following.
My congratulations to Dartmouth College - the only Ivy not to be a member of "Dirty Dozen".
FWIW, I attended Yale, but had an unfair advantage over my amoral colleagues, by growing up in Dentsville, SC, and working in my father's hardware store....
At some point substantially reducing the number of elites will be necessary in regaining some semblance of our former republic