{"id":1619610,"date":"2022-08-23T03:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619610"},"modified":"2022-08-23T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:31:36","slug":"left-wing-elites-gaslight-americans-with-perverse-priorities-while-society-crumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-elites-gaslight-americans-with-perverse-priorities-while-society-crumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Elites Gaslight Americans With Perverse Priorities While Society Crumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-wing-elites-gaslight-americans-with-perverse-priorities-while-society-crumbles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cIt is easy enough to say the cultured man should be the crowd\u2019s guide, philosopher, and friend. Unfortunately, he has nearly always been a misguiding guide, a false friend, and a very shallow philosopher.\u201d These words of famed journalist G. K. Chesterton might be hyperbolic in the abstract, but unfortunately, they ring true in America today.<\/p>\n<p>Today, America is governed by left-wing elites who are swiftly losing all touch with reality. While the country reels from record-high prices, the worst border crisis in U.S. history, rampant violent crime, and the threat of an increasingly hostile Chinese Communist Party, the laptop liberals running the Democrat Party are worried about climate change and pronouns in the military.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a disparity that shows just how distorted the elites\u2019 priorities have become. This was on full display in the White House when President Joe Biden met with a small group of historians to discuss America\u2019s future. Instead of addressing things that matter to everyday Americans, like the historic levels of inflation unleashed by Democrats\u2019 spending spree, the\u00a0Washington Post<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/10\/biden-us-historians-democracy-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that the scholars spent their time comparing Trump supporters to fascists and fueling paranoia about potential challenges to our democratic system.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sean Wilentz, who was one of those scholars,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/08\/14\/historians-biden-white-house-rubio\/\">accuses me<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cfake populism and anti-intellectualism\u201d for taking issue with that meeting. He says I attack the left\u2019s distorted vision of reality to \u201cdistract attention from the abuses of corrupt politicians and plutocrats by manufacturing imaginary threats both at home and abroad.\u201d In clinical terms, this is called \u201cprojection.\u201d This cisgender white male reeks of privilege. He and his fellow liberals\u2019 peddling of imaginary threats is exactly what Republicans like me are fighting against.<\/p>\n<p>It was Biden, not Republicans, who cooked up a fake voting rights crisis in Georgia. It was congressional Democrats who passed a climate bill and tax hike under the false guise of fighting inflation. And it is people like Wilentz who are intensifying a genuine crisis of partisan polarization and eroding social trust by suggesting that conservatives are planning \u201can authoritarian takeover\u201d of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for authoritarianism, look no further than what happened under the watch of Anthony Fauci and his allies in the elite establishment. In California, left-wing Gov. Gavin Newsom used a two-week lockdown to \u201cslow the spread\u201d of Covid as an excuse to seize control of every aspect of society, including the exercise of religion, for nearly two years \u2013\u2013 all while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/fox-11-obtains-exclusive-photos-of-gov-newsom-at-french-restaurant-allegedly-not-following-covid-19-protocols\">repeatedly<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/10\/montanas-off-limits-except-for-gov-gavin-newsom\/\">breaking<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/california\/story\/2020\/10\/30\/newsom-sends-his-children-back-to-school-classrooms-in-california-1332811\">his own rules<\/a> \u2014 with the blessing of the managerial elite. Meanwhile, in Florida, supposedly a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/01\/19\/desantis-paradise-of-authoritarianism\/\">paradise of authoritarianism<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0everyone\u00a0remained free to live, work, and worship.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat elites think they know what\u2019s best for the country. They think that they can trick, condescend, and bully their way into achieving their goals. But hardworking men and women have something that is absent in New York, San Francisco, and Washington: common sense. This common sense enables everyday people to see through the insanity being fed to them from on high.<\/p>\n<p>Everyday Americans reject the lies that the U.S. is irredeemably racist and oppressive, that offshoring industry to China will reduce global warming, or that the greatest threat to our nation comes from conservatives \u201cclinging to their guns and religion.\u201d And so long as they have common sense, they will support politicians who share their values and stand up for basic truths.<\/p>\n<p>Wilentz may believe otherwise, but I am not against intellectuals or the study of American history, nor am I on the side of \u201cplutocrats.\u201d Anyone familiar with my record can see how ridiculous those accusations are. What I am against are people who take what sounds good in East Coast faculty lounges and Hollywood cocktail parties for real wisdom and expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Institutions like Princeton can be a force for good in America. Some of our country\u2019s greatest and most influential thinkers \u2013\u2013 diplomat-strategist George Kennan, theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, mathematician Alan Turing \u2013\u2013 hail from that prestigious alma mater. Sadly, Princeton has now gone woke, embracing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/08\/what-princeton-professors-really-think-about-defining-racism\/614911\/\">a radical anti-free speech code<\/a>\u00a0that will stifle innovation, research, and intellect. If Wilentz is worried about authoritarians \u201ctargeting independent thought,\u201d he should tend to his own house.<\/p>\n<p>There is, and there always will be, a place for scholarship and education in politics. But history teaches that with the right mixture of power and bad ideas, elites will almost certainly lead society astray. Today\u2019s managerial elites certainly have power, and their ideas are becoming downright insane. In this case, I\u2019ll wear criticism and slander from Princeton with a badge of honor, just like I do criticism from the regimes in Beijing, Moscow, Caracas, and Havana.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Marco Rubio is a U.S. senator from Florida.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is easy enough to say the cultured man should be the crowd\u2019s guide, philosopher, and friend. 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