{"id":55796,"date":"2015-10-23T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55796"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:02:31","slug":"our-idiot-elite-part-cxxxix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55796","title":{"rendered":"Our Idiot Elite, Part CXXXIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/425856\/display-ignorance-kevin-d-williamson?target=author&amp;tid=903320\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Williamson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a great deal of talk about elitism in American politics lately, most of which misses the point: The problem isn\u2019t that our media and our policy debates are dominated by elites\u2014of course they are; that\u2019s what elites do\u2014it\u2019s that our elites aren\u2019t very good. Our elites do not effectively perform the social function of elites. On some very important issues, such as crime and the economic struggles of the lower-earning half of American households, the discussion is dominated by elites whose members don\u2019t have much useful knowledge to contribute to the conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On quite a few major issues, our &#8220;elites&#8221; are dumber than the mid-range general population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson: There\u2019s a great deal of talk about elitism in American politics lately, most of which misses the point: The problem isn\u2019t that our media and our policy debates are dominated by elites\u2014of course they are; that\u2019s what elites do\u2014it\u2019s that our elites aren\u2019t very good. Our elites do not effectively perform the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[282,289],"class_list":["post-55796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","tag-idiot-elite","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72536,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796\/revisions\/72536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}