Comment: Kris Kobach endorses Trump. Buried in the details of the endorsement is the fact that Kobach is in touch with Trump and explaining to Trump legislative mechanisms which can be used to compel Mexico to pay for a wall.
This guy needs to be the VP. Here’s a local profile on him. This should shut-up conservatives worried about Trump’s liberalism. His wife even home schools their kids.
* The Soros-backed “Secretary of State Project” (SoSP) has already has some successes, most notably in the first “election” of Al Franken to the US Senate. He and incumbent Norm Coleman were within about 1000 votes of each other initially, but each time there was a recount, Franken got more votes and Coleman fewer, until Coleman lost for good. I think there were seven or eight recounts and in one of them a poll worker “found” some ballots in the trunk of her car, all of them votes for Franken naturally.
The Dems have great chutzpah accusing the Rs of suppressing black votes with such racist requirements as an ID when they have been stealing elections for years. See also Mary Landreau’s first election, Tim Johnson in South Dakota, and Ellen Sauerbrey’s loss as Maryland governor in the 90s when 15000 votes from Baltimore showed up just after midnight.
Comment: What intrigues me more than someone’s biological ancestry is the fact that socio-economic class tends to be rather well conserved from generation to generation. How many RCA salesman from the Canary Islands were there in Cuba in 1939?
I’ve always been keenly conscious of this, having been rather base-born myself. Wealth and status have to be built up from one generation to the next. I think the hardest thing any family lineage has to accomplish is completing the transition from wage-slavery to petite bourgeoisie, i.e. the middle class. It is the most difficult step on the whole spectrum, as it involves a fundamental shift in one’s basic notions of money, property, honor, and a host of other things. The gap between the middle class and the variously described poorer classes beneath them is the widest gap in the world.
However, once that step is taken, it’s relatively easy to see how a child who begins his life in a middle class milieu has a reasonable chance at climbing into the professional class—e.g. the MBAs, doctors, lawyers, accountants, FIRE trades, and other credentialed professions—provided that his own talents and intelligence are worthy of the the task. But if you start out in the lower class, it sometimes doesn’t matter how hardworking and intelligent you are. The barriers to entry really are quite high. Your early formative experiences will not condition you to function in the middle class world, exemplars will be lacking, and family support will be nonexistent. The best a man can do is hope to make enough money to shield his children from the harsher realities, and to send them to a school were children from the next higher rung up the ladder go, in the hopes that new milieu will take over in them, and it’s a very hard task. It presupposes a great deal of patience and long-term thinking which the daily realities of a lower class life are constantly attempting to subvert. It requires the choice of a good and sympathetic woman as a wife, and such women are hard to find anywhere, especially among the lower classes. It also requires a strong Church to serve as the moral governance of the community. If I didn’t already think Ted Cruz to be a truly nasty individual, I would disqualify him from further consideration solely on the ground that his father apostatized from the Catholic faith.
Anyone who feels at home in the middle class needs to recognize that he is in possession of a great inheritance that was dearly bought with the labors, tears, and humiliations of an earlier generation. If you’ve never been without it, you will never realize what a sweet thing it is to grow up with that background, that culture, and those opportunities. I know this sounds a lot like the “White Privilege” argument, but it I am not intending to tear anyone else down or advocating for any kind of redistribution. I’m just saying that, considered in the broad sweep of human history, a middle class lifestyle is a rare thing indeed and it ought to be cherished.
