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We see this sort of thing off and on as political eras wax and wane. The question of whether or not we are only just behind a new revolution starting up in the United States has been repeatedly asked almost since the instant the first one (or even the second one — the Civil War) came to a close.

But are we? Are we about to be plunged into a second revolution of some sort or another? And who will be on what side of this revolution? Angelo Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, asks this question in the recent issue of the American Spectator and I must say he presents compelling reasons why we might be headed for another revolution.

It’s all about “America’s Ruling Class,” says Codevilla. These elites have lost touch with America and are now solely interested in what’s good for the ruling class and not what’s good for America and it people.

Codevilla warns that “never has there been so little diversity within America’s upper crust,” and asserts that this ruling class is isolated, self-interested, and dangerous.

Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints… Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America’s ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.

And the voting booth gives us no succor. “Some two-thirds of Americans — a few Democratic voters, most Republican voters, and all independents — lack a vehicle in electoral politics,” Codevilla warns.

Codevilla gives then a nice summation of the history of America’s new ruling class showing its exclusivity, its disgust with American principles, and the locus of its power — the latter of which is old as government itself, patronage and the promise thereof.

The end goal of this ruling class is total political and economic control for its own benefit and its chief tool is casting the great unwashed voters into total dependency on government.

There is a lot of great information in this piece. It helps explain why our votes are meaningless, why unions have such a free hand despite their paltry employee numbers, and why the ruling class simply has no interest in what the people have to say about anything.

Please do take a look at this important piece.