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Entry: McCain's Base Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccains_base#33246 Post contents: Here is a little story for you, one that allegedly happened in Houston many years ago. A man with a gun walked into a supermarket with the intention of robbing it. During the course of the robbery the night manager convinced the robber he couldn't open the safe and to avoid the risk of a charge of armed robbery for whatever paltry sum he might get from the pockets of the employees the robber should just sell the manager his gun. The transaction was completed, at which point the manager turned the gun on the robber and held him for the police. The moral of the story is: money and power usually go hand in hand, but they are not the same and the two should never be confused. Mass immigration is a leftist ideological program with its roots in one-worldism that has long since degenerated into a racist loathing of white people and the West. When it began when nobody talked about jobs the natives wouldn't do, and it has continued through unemployment and recessions, indeed economic realities have hardly impacted the scope of immigration at all, nor will they short of a depression and threatened revolution since these policies are not driven by economics. (Other factors such as environment or overcrowding also have not affected the mania.) Businessmen are the junior partners to those with real power, and the chief reason Republicans and public "conservatives" support mass immigration is to avoid the charge of racism. Here is a selection from Robert Bork's review of the book "Revolt of the Elites": "By defining the elites primarily as money-makers, moreover, Lasch avoids the real problem our elites pose: their cultural and political values. "Efforts to define a 'new class' composed of public administrators and policy makers, relentlessly pushing a program of liberal reforms, ignore the range of political opinions among the professional and managerial elites." But this misses the point. The "new class" does not include, as Lasch contends it does, "brokers, bankers, realestate promoters and developers, engineers, consultants of all kinds, systems analysts, scientists, doctors," but rather is made up of those in the second half of his list: "publicists, publishers, editors, advertising executives, art directors, moviemakers, entertainers, journalists, television producers and directors, artists, writers, university professors." Only by lumping the two groups together can he claim that there is no common political outlook. What is distinctive about the latter group is that they influence cultural and political attitudes, as the former group does not. One Oliver Stone motion picture has far more impact on the way Americans see their country than all the pronouncements of the chairmen of the boards of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Microsoft, and IBM combined. The group to which Mr. Stone belongs is overwhelmingly of leftist disposition. That is the "new class." When Lasch stops riding the theme of the evils of meritocracy and wealth and the threat they pose to democracy, his book becomes much more interesting. He eventually forgets about bankers and brokers, and begins implicitly to define elites as comprising his second category, those engaged in ideas and entertainment. He recognizes that it is these elites, not real-estate developers, who are in revolt against America." Sent at: 2008 12 01