Gruber was born on September 30, 1965, son of Martin Jay Gruber and Ellie Gruber. His father, Martin, is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, having been a professor there for 45 years. Jonathan Gruber was raised in the New York suburb of Ridgewood, New Jersey. He completed his BS in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1992, with a thesis titled Changes in the Structure of Employer-Provided Health Insurance….
In November 2014, a series of videos emerged of Gruber speaking about the ACA at different events, from 2010 to 2013, in ways that proved to be controversial. Many of the videos show him talking about ways in which he felt the ACA was misleadingly crafted and/or marketed in order to get the bill passed, while in some of the videos he specifically refers to American voters as ill-informed or “stupid.” In the first, most widely-publicized video taken at a panel discussion about the ACA at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2013, Gruber said the bill was deliberately written “in a tortured way” to disguise the fact that it creates a system by which “healthy people pay in and sick people get money.” He said this obfuscation was needed due to “the stupidity of the American voter” in ensuring the bill’s passage. Gruber said the bill’s inherent “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage” in selling it.[23] The comments caused significant controversy.[24][25][26][27][28] In two subsequent videos, Gruber was shown talking about the decision (which he attributed to John Kerry) to have the bill tax insurance companies instead of patients (the so-called “Cadillac tax”), which he called fundamentally the same thing economically but more palatable politically. In one video, he stated that “the American people are too stupid to understand the difference” between the two approaches, while in the other he said that the switch worked due to “the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.”[29]
The average Ashkenazi IQ is about 110, the highest of any group IQ. The confident successful high-achieving Ashkenazim I know frequently regard the rest of the world as stupid. So Jonathan Gruber reminds me of these guys. This is how they speak. The goyim need to be fed lies to be kept in line. Lack of transparency is frequently an advantage because the goyim are too stupid to know what is good.
When I challenge a smart successful Ashkenazi Jew about something outrageous he’s said (these are not bad people, they just have a distinct discussion style), he’ll often launch into a personal attack. They have tremendous energy and ingenuity and I usually don’t have the energy and strength to fight back, so they have contempt for my weakness and ride roughshod over me.
When an Ashkenazi takes his Judaism seriously, he may behave more decently.
Would a WASP talk like Jonathan Gruber? I doubt it. Being a member of God’s Chosen People imbues you with a confidence that you know best.
Paul Johnson wrote on page 545 of his History of the Jews book:
Yet the animating spirit of the Labour movement remained European socialism. It was a party of city intellectuals whose kibbutzim were their weekend cottages. It was university-educated, culturally middle class. To the workers, especially to the Afro-Asian-Sephardi immigrants, it turned a face of well-meaning condescension, patiently explaining what was good for them, rather as Rosa Luxemburg had once tried to lecture the German proletariat. They were the natural aristocrats of the new state, or perhaps one should call them a secular cathedocracy.
That sounds to me like an accurate description of Jonathan Gruber and the Ashkenazim of the elite media and academia.
I think you could expand the analysis of the power dynamic w/ the recent example of Jonathan Gruber and his various Kinsley gaffes. It turned out the source of all these it-bleeds-it-leads YouTube clips of the ACA non-architect’s plain speaking was this one guy in suburban Philly who’d had his health insurance policy canceled and then proceeded to spend much of his free time watching speeches by Gruber, Ezekiel Emanuel, and the rest of the holy brain trust. What followed was a schizoid freak-out– not only was Gruber retconned as a vagrant who’d wandered into the White House somehow, but “Zealot Truthers Refuse to Accept Obamacare Is Working” pieces became plentiful. The point is to scare all the isolated bourgeois taxpayers with above-average reading & financial skills who feel chagrined about their premiums & co-pays getting jacked up, so that they don’t do anything as drastic as form a group to have their say on the unfolding trainwreck — that would be a complete disaster from cathedral POV.
The recreational self-expression coalitions under the “Tea Party” banner in 2010-12 did have a strange carnival/Lollapalooza aspect to them yet underneath the mockery you could smell the fear in the NYT, CBS-ABC-NBC, NPR coverage of the social phenomenon. Coincidentally the press guild/cathedral invested much enthusiasm in the comparatively short-lived Occupy Wall Street, which also drew from a significantly shallower demographic cross-section, to the point nobody understood “what it was about” & was easy pickings for SEIU/AFSCME and the unshowered anarchist black bloc to hijack; the contemporary cartoon “Things You Learn By Watching the News” by ElvisNixon.com summed it up pretty well.
