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		<title>By: Mark Citadel</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/06/16/americas-long-lived-leveling-culture/#comment-14353</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I have studied the Modern history of China in depth, and your analysis is correct. It is unfortunate that the Empress died when she did, before the young emperor to be had come of age. He stood no chance against Yatsen&#039;s thugs and the treachery of the imperial army. Imagine what China might look like today, with European Imperialism effectively ended after WWII? It could have become a strong Traditionalist power, rather than a strong Communist one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I have studied the Modern history of China in depth, and your analysis is correct. It is unfortunate that the Empress died when she did, before the young emperor to be had come of age. He stood no chance against Yatsen&#8217;s thugs and the treachery of the imperial army. Imagine what China might look like today, with European Imperialism effectively ended after WWII? It could have become a strong Traditionalist power, rather than a strong Communist one.</p>
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		<title>By: Augustina</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/06/16/americas-long-lived-leveling-culture/#comment-14349</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese did not escape modernity unscathed.  They, too, destroyed their traditional culture.  In 1911 the last emperor was deposed.  But they didn&#039;t keep the old system with new personnel as they had done with previous uprisings.  It was to be something completely different.  Sun Yat Sen&#039;s American style liberalism lost out to Mao.  The traditional Chinese way of life, including their family structure was chewed up and spat out.  One of the first things the Communists did was legalize divorce.

Similar developments took place in that other unmodern vast land empire, Russia.  Reading Dostoyevsky, you can see The Hatred at work.  He wrote whole books about it.  When the Communists were victorious, peasants who had  only the year before knelt piously in front of their icons, now gleefully tossed them in the flames.   It is depressing to contemplate how quickly people can turn on their &quot;deeply held&quot; beliefs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Chinese did not escape modernity unscathed.  They, too, destroyed their traditional culture.  In 1911 the last emperor was deposed.  But they didn&#8217;t keep the old system with new personnel as they had done with previous uprisings.  It was to be something completely different.  Sun Yat Sen&#8217;s American style liberalism lost out to Mao.  The traditional Chinese way of life, including their family structure was chewed up and spat out.  One of the first things the Communists did was legalize divorce.</p>
<p>Similar developments took place in that other unmodern vast land empire, Russia.  Reading Dostoyevsky, you can see The Hatred at work.  He wrote whole books about it.  When the Communists were victorious, peasants who had  only the year before knelt piously in front of their icons, now gleefully tossed them in the flames.   It is depressing to contemplate how quickly people can turn on their &#8220;deeply held&#8221; beliefs.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Citadel</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/06/16/americas-long-lived-leveling-culture/#comment-14344</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#039;t really call Chinese civilization godless. Originally, in Ancient China, they did have a sort of monotheism with some startling similarities to that which emerged from the Middle East. This did degrade over time into a more Japanese style of religion, the concepts being more abstract, but Chinese life was still very ritualistic and religious... up until you know who arrived on the scene of course.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t really call Chinese civilization godless. Originally, in Ancient China, they did have a sort of monotheism with some startling similarities to that which emerged from the Middle East. This did degrade over time into a more Japanese style of religion, the concepts being more abstract, but Chinese life was still very ritualistic and religious&#8230; up until you know who arrived on the scene of course.</p>
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		<title>By: jay</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/06/16/americas-long-lived-leveling-culture/#comment-14338</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#039;&#039;I call it The Hatred. I am trying to understand The Hatred. Why do they Hate their own past, their own culture, religion, families, fathers, Mom, apple pie and all that? I think it’s ultimately spiritual. They turned away from God and tried to figure out things on their own. Now they have loosed the demonic. &#039;&#039;

How is it that the godless chinese for many thousands of years manage to retain their power structure and everything else in chinese culture.

While the west that abandons God ends up being more destructive?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8221;I call it The Hatred. I am trying to understand The Hatred. Why do they Hate their own past, their own culture, religion, families, fathers, Mom, apple pie and all that? I think it’s ultimately spiritual. They turned away from God and tried to figure out things on their own. Now they have loosed the demonic. &#8221;</p>
<p>How is it that the godless chinese for many thousands of years manage to retain their power structure and everything else in chinese culture.</p>
<p>While the west that abandons God ends up being more destructive?</p>
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		<title>By: Augustina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get the idea that the left is more about power than ideas, but I don&#039;t think that quite captures the last century of history.  In China, every three hundred years or so,  there would be an uprising that would oust the ruling dynasty.  They would be eliminated trunk, root and branch down to the eighth cousin thrice removed.  And so would all their ministers, generals, supporters, lackeys, toadies and other assorted hangers on.

 After this paroxysm of violence a new emperor would rise to power and go about using the same ruling system.  In other words, it was like a neutron bomb; the people would all be eliminated, but the power structure would remain.  The same culture, the same Confucian texts, the same family system, the same ministerial offices, the same mandarins and functionaries.  China survived through thousands of years of these sorts of power struggles.

What I don&#039;t get about the left is their hatred not just of the corrupt, incompetent and brutal leaders, but of every single thing about western culture.  Sure, the leaders are unworthy;  take power, someone&#039;s gotta rule.  But why set up a system that destroys ordinary people and their ordinary aspirations?  Why set up a structure that destroys a man&#039;s life through frivolous divorce for cash and prizes and takes his kids away?  What&#039;s he ever done to deserve that?  Why glorify the perversion of homosexuality?  Why sanctify the absolutely insane transgenders?  Why should they even care what a Christian bakery in Iowa does?  Why destroy and bankrupt them to the hoots, hollers and howls of glee from the SJWs?  It&#039;s demonic.

Most westerners were productive, dutiful and respectful of authority, why use that against them?  Why undermine these people&#039;s natural obedience and replace them with less productive, less dutiful others and encourage the destruction of the culture that nurtures these obedient, dutiful and productive citizens?

I call it The Hatred.  I am trying to understand The Hatred.  Why do they Hate their own past, their own culture, religion, families, fathers, Mom, apple pie and all that?  I think it&#039;s ultimately spiritual.  They turned away from God and tried to figure out things on their own.  Now they have loosed the demonic.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get the idea that the left is more about power than ideas, but I don&#8217;t think that quite captures the last century of history.  In China, every three hundred years or so,  there would be an uprising that would oust the ruling dynasty.  They would be eliminated trunk, root and branch down to the eighth cousin thrice removed.  And so would all their ministers, generals, supporters, lackeys, toadies and other assorted hangers on.</p>
<p> After this paroxysm of violence a new emperor would rise to power and go about using the same ruling system.  In other words, it was like a neutron bomb; the people would all be eliminated, but the power structure would remain.  The same culture, the same Confucian texts, the same family system, the same ministerial offices, the same mandarins and functionaries.  China survived through thousands of years of these sorts of power struggles.</p>
<p>What I don&#8217;t get about the left is their hatred not just of the corrupt, incompetent and brutal leaders, but of every single thing about western culture.  Sure, the leaders are unworthy;  take power, someone&#8217;s gotta rule.  But why set up a system that destroys ordinary people and their ordinary aspirations?  Why set up a structure that destroys a man&#8217;s life through frivolous divorce for cash and prizes and takes his kids away?  What&#8217;s he ever done to deserve that?  Why glorify the perversion of homosexuality?  Why sanctify the absolutely insane transgenders?  Why should they even care what a Christian bakery in Iowa does?  Why destroy and bankrupt them to the hoots, hollers and howls of glee from the SJWs?  It&#8217;s demonic.</p>
<p>Most westerners were productive, dutiful and respectful of authority, why use that against them?  Why undermine these people&#8217;s natural obedience and replace them with less productive, less dutiful others and encourage the destruction of the culture that nurtures these obedient, dutiful and productive citizens?</p>
<p>I call it The Hatred.  I am trying to understand The Hatred.  Why do they Hate their own past, their own culture, religion, families, fathers, Mom, apple pie and all that?  I think it&#8217;s ultimately spiritual.  They turned away from God and tried to figure out things on their own.  Now they have loosed the demonic.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Citadel</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/06/16/americas-long-lived-leveling-culture/#comment-14319</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Citadel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a difference. The French counter-revolutionaries were trying to prop up an order. We live in a time where the order has been utterly annihilated. Only vague remnants remain. As such, we have to be more careful when it comes to actual action. Don&#039;t doubt the power of ideas. It is ideas after all that bring in men of action. To co-ordinate an army you first have to build that army. We start from scratch where the original counter-revolutionaries didn&#039;t.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a difference. The French counter-revolutionaries were trying to prop up an order. We live in a time where the order has been utterly annihilated. Only vague remnants remain. As such, we have to be more careful when it comes to actual action. Don&#8217;t doubt the power of ideas. It is ideas after all that bring in men of action. To co-ordinate an army you first have to build that army. We start from scratch where the original counter-revolutionaries didn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: vxxc2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defend what is yours, and in common with us what is OURS.  

You defend in reality as opposed to in the abstract by striving against men and not their ideas. Ideas are but drums beaten to summon followers. 

More simply - Mr. Dampier you need to stop hunting decoys and start hunting actual Ducks.  

This is what the Ducks actually DO, as opposed to what they Quack.  Ducks do Force &amp; Gain.  Quack Ideas.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2578/2578-h/2578-h.htm#link2H_4_0002

This is the path we are on now, and The Right is following the same doomed steps of the French Right.  
Do look above and see what should be done differently.    Ta.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Defend what is yours, and in common with us what is OURS.  </p>
<p>You defend in reality as opposed to in the abstract by striving against men and not their ideas. Ideas are but drums beaten to summon followers. </p>
<p>More simply &#8211; Mr. Dampier you need to stop hunting decoys and start hunting actual Ducks.  </p>
<p>This is what the Ducks actually DO, as opposed to what they Quack.  Ducks do Force &amp; Gain.  Quack Ideas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2578/2578-h/2578-h.htm#link2H_4_0002" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2578/2578-h/2578-h.htm#link2H_4_0002</a></p>
<p>This is the path we are on now, and The Right is following the same doomed steps of the French Right.<br />
Do look above and see what should be done differently.    Ta.</p>
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		<title>By: vxxc2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have to live somewhere and the only somewhere for nearly all Americans is America.

Saying it&#039;s DOOMED isn&#039;t a solution to our problems and we must face and solve our problems or be consumed by same.   

Our problem:  The New Deal Administrative State has predictably moved into Tyranny, it was predictable as there was never any check on it&#039;s power other than the virtue of the Administrators.  It was a benevolent if center left bureaucracy for exactly one generation that became quite hostile with the second generation of administrators in 1966.   1966 wasn&#039;t just the key year of Cloward Piven but the year you see the administrators change into professional bureaucrats who hire academic radicals.  Go and look what was the premier social program of maximum &quot;buy in&quot; in 1966: The VA.  You&#039;ll see the Administrators all changed that very year.  That is also the year the socially pathogenic staffers of the Great Society and campus radicals overthrow the New Dealers who had become Cold Warriors and the year LBJ&#039;s fate is sealed. 

As far as contradictions and tensions in the system those exist in any system as that&#039;s part of any existence.

Principles above do appear in practice but are not part of the Official Canon until the last 50 years, in particular Equality.  The closest is &quot;All Men are Created Equal&quot; which was an appeal to God&#039;s Law against the idea of hereditary and in the case of the British Empire&#039;s policies towards America a mismanaging and corrupt, distant Capitol in London.    We face much the same situation with regard to our sane elites.  We also have utterly alien and non-American Jacobin clubs throughout our government and elites for instance in our DOJ Civil Rights division. 

We have to face our problem of a predatory and hostile to the ethnic majority State and elites.   That&#039;s nothing new to men and has happened all throughout history.   They should be thrown down and removed from any lever of power at a minimum and replaced with a government that doesn&#039;t hate it&#039;s own people.

No system change solves our problems as it&#039;s not a systems problem, it&#039;s a personnel problem.  We have criminal elites who can be divided into two basic actual parties:  The Resource predators who are concerned with looting us for $ Trillions per year and the Process predators who are motivated by their need to destroy and degrade our race [and all other races].      

Predators coming to power is normal for human history and civilization and so is their fate.   

It is our duty to defend what is ours be it ever so flawed.&lt;strong&gt;  You defend in reality as opposed to in the abstract by striving against men and not their ideas.   Ideas are but drums beaten to summon followers. &lt;/strong&gt; The French Revolution succeeded not because of Rousseau but because of money - first the Duc of Orleans agents paid the core of what became the Jacobin murder crews and later of course looting France paid.     The Duc of Orleans paid as he coveted the throne and under the name Louis Egalitie paid with his head for his folly and treason. *

The Left isn&#039;t flawed ideas of Equality that fail in practice, the Left is brilliantly successful in gangsterism and looting for the Leftists.   The Jacobin&#039;s were failed lawyers and defrocked priests who hired career criminals to kill and loot and drunkards and prostitutes to fill the galleries.   

First the other Estates of landed property and the bourgeois parties failed, then the Giordinists failed for the same reason the Right is failing now and the mistake made here;  they thought ideas, law and culture mattered.   They had a stake in the system and the Leftists coveted their stake.   The Left understood that Force and Gain was all that mattered.  They were never anything then or now but a violent and criminal minority engaged in intimidation, bribery and murder to get power and then terror to hold onto power. 

Power isn&#039;t ideas or merit and nor is it biology or birth.  Power is Force and Force&#039;s Gains [loot].   The levers over men are Force and Gain.    The rest is marketing and priestly trappings.  The Right continuously makes the mistake of the Trappings being what matters, the Left understands what really matters. 

*Father of Louis Phillipe, a wise monarch who took many of his lessons on Liberal rule from his time spent working as a common teacher in America during his exile.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have to live somewhere and the only somewhere for nearly all Americans is America.</p>
<p>Saying it&#8217;s DOOMED isn&#8217;t a solution to our problems and we must face and solve our problems or be consumed by same.   </p>
<p>Our problem:  The New Deal Administrative State has predictably moved into Tyranny, it was predictable as there was never any check on it&#8217;s power other than the virtue of the Administrators.  It was a benevolent if center left bureaucracy for exactly one generation that became quite hostile with the second generation of administrators in 1966.   1966 wasn&#8217;t just the key year of Cloward Piven but the year you see the administrators change into professional bureaucrats who hire academic radicals.  Go and look what was the premier social program of maximum &#8220;buy in&#8221; in 1966: The VA.  You&#8217;ll see the Administrators all changed that very year.  That is also the year the socially pathogenic staffers of the Great Society and campus radicals overthrow the New Dealers who had become Cold Warriors and the year LBJ&#8217;s fate is sealed. </p>
<p>As far as contradictions and tensions in the system those exist in any system as that&#8217;s part of any existence.</p>
<p>Principles above do appear in practice but are not part of the Official Canon until the last 50 years, in particular Equality.  The closest is &#8220;All Men are Created Equal&#8221; which was an appeal to God&#8217;s Law against the idea of hereditary and in the case of the British Empire&#8217;s policies towards America a mismanaging and corrupt, distant Capitol in London.    We face much the same situation with regard to our sane elites.  We also have utterly alien and non-American Jacobin clubs throughout our government and elites for instance in our DOJ Civil Rights division. </p>
<p>We have to face our problem of a predatory and hostile to the ethnic majority State and elites.   That&#8217;s nothing new to men and has happened all throughout history.   They should be thrown down and removed from any lever of power at a minimum and replaced with a government that doesn&#8217;t hate it&#8217;s own people.</p>
<p>No system change solves our problems as it&#8217;s not a systems problem, it&#8217;s a personnel problem.  We have criminal elites who can be divided into two basic actual parties:  The Resource predators who are concerned with looting us for $ Trillions per year and the Process predators who are motivated by their need to destroy and degrade our race [and all other races].      </p>
<p>Predators coming to power is normal for human history and civilization and so is their fate.   </p>
<p>It is our duty to defend what is ours be it ever so flawed.<strong>  You defend in reality as opposed to in the abstract by striving against men and not their ideas.   Ideas are but drums beaten to summon followers. </strong> The French Revolution succeeded not because of Rousseau but because of money &#8211; first the Duc of Orleans agents paid the core of what became the Jacobin murder crews and later of course looting France paid.     The Duc of Orleans paid as he coveted the throne and under the name Louis Egalitie paid with his head for his folly and treason. *</p>
<p>The Left isn&#8217;t flawed ideas of Equality that fail in practice, the Left is brilliantly successful in gangsterism and looting for the Leftists.   The Jacobin&#8217;s were failed lawyers and defrocked priests who hired career criminals to kill and loot and drunkards and prostitutes to fill the galleries.   </p>
<p>First the other Estates of landed property and the bourgeois parties failed, then the Giordinists failed for the same reason the Right is failing now and the mistake made here;  they thought ideas, law and culture mattered.   They had a stake in the system and the Leftists coveted their stake.   The Left understood that Force and Gain was all that mattered.  They were never anything then or now but a violent and criminal minority engaged in intimidation, bribery and murder to get power and then terror to hold onto power. </p>
<p>Power isn&#8217;t ideas or merit and nor is it biology or birth.  Power is Force and Force&#8217;s Gains [loot].   The levers over men are Force and Gain.    The rest is marketing and priestly trappings.  The Right continuously makes the mistake of the Trappings being what matters, the Left understands what really matters. </p>
<p>*Father of Louis Phillipe, a wise monarch who took many of his lessons on Liberal rule from his time spent working as a common teacher in America during his exile.</p>
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		<title>By: IA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 01:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Now that you’ve taken away a general belief in opportunity, what incentive do people have to buy into your system?&quot;

Fear.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Now that you’ve taken away a general belief in opportunity, what incentive do people have to buy into your system?&#8221;</p>
<p>Fear.</p>
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		<title>By: Augustina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 01:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There never has been a truly egalitarian society.  And the US was never even close.  For all our talk about equality, our society never was.  Back in the days of the Founding Fathers, only white men with property could vote.  Over time, the franchise was extended to more people, but elections never made a difference.  The powerful got what they wanted, one way or another. 

The Industrial Revolution was the real game changer.  The previously slow rise of a middle class that demanded a share of the power was dwarfed in the exponential rise of wealth and new power structures as a result of the IR.  

Now  you had &quot;dirty coal chippers&quot; like Andrew Carnegie becoming  vastly wealthy industrial magnates.  And then accused of being robber barons.  The tremendous churning of social classes as a result of the overwhelming amount of new wealth generated in the IR resulted in the idea that the class system was wrong, outmoded and had previously kept good people down.

Additionally, the new power centers of mass education and mass media, which rose in the late 19th century gave former outgroups power and control over millions of people.  And yet these newly wealthy and powerful people could never join the club of aristocracy.  No matter what estate they bought or built, or what accents they tried to put on, they were never going to be a member of the old aristocracy.  Many of the newly powerful outgroups were bitter about this, and set about denigrating anything that smacked of the old class structure, through their control over the education system and the media.

This has, over time,  gone from attacking the old aristocracy to the land owning gentry, to the robber baron industrialists to the bourgeios middle class all the way down to the average white male.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There never has been a truly egalitarian society.  And the US was never even close.  For all our talk about equality, our society never was.  Back in the days of the Founding Fathers, only white men with property could vote.  Over time, the franchise was extended to more people, but elections never made a difference.  The powerful got what they wanted, one way or another. </p>
<p>The Industrial Revolution was the real game changer.  The previously slow rise of a middle class that demanded a share of the power was dwarfed in the exponential rise of wealth and new power structures as a result of the IR.  </p>
<p>Now  you had &#8220;dirty coal chippers&#8221; like Andrew Carnegie becoming  vastly wealthy industrial magnates.  And then accused of being robber barons.  The tremendous churning of social classes as a result of the overwhelming amount of new wealth generated in the IR resulted in the idea that the class system was wrong, outmoded and had previously kept good people down.</p>
<p>Additionally, the new power centers of mass education and mass media, which rose in the late 19th century gave former outgroups power and control over millions of people.  And yet these newly wealthy and powerful people could never join the club of aristocracy.  No matter what estate they bought or built, or what accents they tried to put on, they were never going to be a member of the old aristocracy.  Many of the newly powerful outgroups were bitter about this, and set about denigrating anything that smacked of the old class structure, through their control over the education system and the media.</p>
<p>This has, over time,  gone from attacking the old aristocracy to the land owning gentry, to the robber baron industrialists to the bourgeios middle class all the way down to the average white male.</p>
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