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Survey: Two-Thirds Of Elites Say There’s Too Much Freedom In America


BY: EVITA DUFFY-ALFONSO | JANUARY 19, 2024

Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/19/survey-two-thirds-of-elites-say-theres-too-much-freedom-in-america/

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The nation’s ruling class holds deeply authoritarian opinions widely divorced from the rest of the American electorate, finds a survey out this week. It found nearly 60 percent of American “elites” think there is too much individual freedom in America. Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of registered voters have the exact opposite opinion, reporting the United States has too much top-down control, limiting liberty. 

The study, titled “Them Vs. U.S,” defined the American “elite” as “having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, and living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile.” Such people account for about 1 percent of Americans. The study also examined a sub-sample of the 1 percent who graduated from Ivy League schools or other name-brand institutions such as Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

The study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found ruling class opinions on climate policies were particularly harsh and despotic. More than two-thirds of the 1 percent support rationing vital energy and food sources in an attempt to control the globe’s weather. That number jumped to nearly 90 percent among the Ivy Leaguers. Around two-thirds of normal registered voters, however, oppose rationing vital resources.

Limiting food and water consumption is a serious proposition to global leaders. For example, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, an environmentalist organization of city leaders across the globe, has proposed annihilating meat and dairy consumption by 2030. 

“An astonishing 72% of the Elites – including 81% of the Elites who graduated from the top universities – favor banning gas cars,” the study authors continued. “And majorities of elites would ban gas stoves, non-essential air travel, SUVs, and private air conditioning.”

Elites’ view of other elites is very different from regular registered voters’ view of elites. On the education front, “Two-thirds (67%) [of the 1 percent] say teachers and other educational professionals should decide what children are taught rather than letting parents decide.” Only 38 percent of registered voters felt the same. 

“About six of ten elites have a favorable opinion of the so-called talking professions—lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, and journalists,” wrote the study authors. Additionally, “In stark contrast to the rest of America, 70% of the Elites trust the government to ‘do the right thing most of the time.’”

Unsurprisingly, “about three-quarters of these cultural elites are Biden supporters.” While only 20 percent of Americans say they are better off financially under Biden, nearly three-quarters of the elites say they are better off under Biden.

The study comes as global leaders meet in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting to discuss draconian climate policies and crackdowns on freedom of speech and therefore freedom of thought. So far at the conference, elites have discussed establishing a “new world order,” lobbied for censorship in the name of “disinformation and misinformation,” and labeled farming and fishing “ecocide.” 

The WEF policy proposals and the results of this survey reveal what the Committee to Unleash Prosperity describes as a “Grand Canyon-sized chasm” between regular citizens and those who largely claim the expertise and power to rule over others with or without their consent. 

“These results confirm what people have long suspected,” wrote the study authors: “Today, there are two Americas. One is wealthier, more highly educated, and attended the best schools. They put much more trust in big government ‘to do the right thing’ and, by their own admission, benefit from more expansive government policies. They have also been hurt far less by the high inflation of the Biden presidency than those who live from paycheck to paycheck and are in the lower and middle classes.”

Evita Duffy-Alfonso is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com.

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Another Cultural War Alert


They are at it again. Now it is Vice President Biden saying that his parents could dream great things for their children just like a rich man. According to the Vice President and other Left Wing spokes people;

  • Conservatives hate poor people.
  • Conservatives want to make the poor, poorer and the rich, richer.
  • Conservatives want to take from what the poor have and give it to the rich.
  • Conservatives do not care about the poor and only care about the rich.

These statements are ridiculous, unless you are a “cool-aid” drinker from the Left. No person who can actually think for themselves would put any value to such crazy claims. Understanding that they are saying such things to further gin up their voting base, and “stir the pot” so that more hatred is produced, and more envy.

I am very upset that those in the media who claim to be fair and balanced would ask a couple of very important follow-up questions:

  • “Mr. Biden. When you talk about the rich, what rich people are you talking about?
    • How about the Wall Street tycoons who gave you money in 2008 helping get you and President Obama elected?
    • How about professional athletes?
    • How about Hollywood?
    • How about all the Democrat Senators and Congress People who are millionaires and constantly vote themselves exclusions from the tax laws the rest of America is supposed to abide by?
    • How about all the foreign investors that give to the Super Packs?”

Who are the rich people the Left is demonizing? I would like to see one interviewer have the courage to actually ask that question and not let them go until they answer.

Have you also noticed that President Obama has done a great job NOT creating new wealthy people, except of course those contractors The President’s head of the GSA have awarded.

Do they really want riots in the street? Do they really want to create such hatred for 30% of our population who are actually employing those the Left are ginning up to hate? The Left has been very successful at creating their primary voting base; the 50% of Americans and illegals, who never pay any Federal Income Tax. According to the Left, the rest of us want to take away what they have and give it to ourselves.

No, I do not want anything they have. Instead, I support the following ideas;

  • All those that are on any form of Welfare immediate become employees of the State they live in. Take what they get in benefits divide by Minimum Wage. They owe those hours to the State.
  • Put them to work cleaning up the graffiti, clearing sewage lines, cutting firebreaks in the hills and mountains, keeping skid row clean, clean along the rail road tracks and all the other jobs that are not getting done now.
  • Treat them like any State employee. Screw up, and you are fired. No more freebies.

Let me know what you think.

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