http://thinkprogress.org/home/2013/12/21/3098361/wall-street-journal-bemoans-end-white-rule-united-states/
There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions to them. Inefficiency, an allergy to cooperation, and stiff resistance to pragmatism have all ground the federal government to a stand-still. But one op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal knows what the real problem is: not enough rich, white men.
In Saturday’s paper and online, author Joseph Epstein mourns the collapse of what he describes as the “genuine ruling class, drawn from what came to be known as the WASP establishment,” (WASP, the commonly-held acronym for White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant). Instead, he argues, we are living in a meritocracy, governed not by an elite subset of the uppermost crust of society but rather by a group of people who overcame some kind of adversity and achieved success thanks to their own merits, not based on what family they were born into. This, according to Epstein, is a tragedy.
this mindset is permeating too many people right wingers like Buchannan, Gingrhich, and the rest of the usual suspects who deny class as well as defy it try to blame Pres. for creating a rift between that which they deny exist. they speak of backroom meetings of Dems that secretly do things then shove them down our throats, hasn't recent rebuttals of that and laying blame where that shoe fits squared that lie up?
either way the believe rich should and do hold the reigns to the country, what i fail to understand is why do they have to deflate the lives of those less fortunate when they hold 90% of the wealth, do the remaining crumbs they allow us to pick up off the floor now detrimental to their maintaining their status or is it ultra greed?
Epstein’s contempt for minorities — namely, that they don’t belong anywhere near positions of authority — isn’t reserved simply for race. Back in the 1970s, Epstein penned a story for Harper’s Magazine in which he expressed his desire to “wish homosexuality off the face of this earth.” He added, of his four sons, “nothing they could ever do would make me sadder than if any of them were to become homosexual.” Those comments led to sit-ins and protests outside of Harper’s offices, and Epstein has never apologized (and in fact dismissed his critics, some 30 years later, as simply incapable of understanding his own “textured thought”).
Perhaps that explains why Epstein reserves so little space (50 of his 2200+ word essay) to the shortcomings of WASP rule: he simply doesn’t care that many of the leaders from his idyllic “WASPocracy” looked the other way on issues of racism, homophobia, poverty and inequality when they were in power.
you have just read the description of right wing ideology, it's members and it's base thank God they are not the majority actually they never have been just "we the people" not represented within our uinterest and no one of power earnestly pursued the equality until now.
they are trying to ruin his historic legacy but Pres. has already written that book and enough of us out there that will not allow republican re-writes.
