{"id":99590,"date":"2016-06-29T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99590"},"modified":"2016-06-29T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T16:41:30","slug":"game-of-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99590","title":{"rendered":"Game of States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/game_of_states_steve_sailer\/print#ixzz4Cx76oiVJ\">Steve Sailer&#8217;s new column in Taki\u2019s Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The near universal response of the punditry to a majority of Brits voting to leave the E.U. has been so enraged that the average voter must have begun by now to notice that their furious elites just plain don\u2019t like them. As a Bizarro World Sally Field might have exclaimed in wonder, \u201cYou hate us, you really hate us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The past week has been the mirror image of the Stale Pale Male taunting and touchdown dances that followed Obama\u2019s reelection. Then, it was Democracy Rules (because we\u2019ve imported millions of ringers). Now, it\u2019s Democracy Sucks (because voters are stupid).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long been suggesting that it would be prudent for elites to moderate the policies under which they\u2019ve flourished, such as by scaling back mass immigration. \u2026 What has ruined the E.U. is the ideological momentum of elites. Now that the public has twigged to the fact that globalism is basically a scam to allow those who would do pretty well in life anyway to do even better, the globalists have doubled down on their claims to be justified by their more advanced morality of universalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steve Sailer&#8217;s new column in Taki\u2019s Magazine: The near universal response of the punditry to a majority of Brits voting to leave the E.U. has been so enraged that the average voter must have begun by now to notice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9993],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Steve Sailer&#039;s new column in Taki\u2019s Magazine: The near universal response of the punditry to a majority of Brits voting to leave the E.U. has been so enraged that the average voter must have begun by now to notice that their furious elites just plain don\u2019t like them. 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