Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the nomination of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice presidential pick is seen as a threat to the Elite. As such it is an example of elitist theory at work.
Apparently she is a ’boat rocker’. Someone who is not afraid to rock the boat and call attention to the foibles and decadence of the elite. She has done just that in her native state of Alaska. She has not only been a partisan in pointing out the corruption of the other but she has actively attacked corruption in her own party. That is totally unacceptable to the elite.
The elite are a small clique that values above all, compliance. With the status quo, and with their power. Anything that threatens their power is to be destroyed or engulfed. If a person is shown to be too loved by the people to be destroyed they will be incorporated into the cast of the elite. In that way the egoist that threatens the status quo of the power of the elite can be muted and controlled. In being incorporated into the elite they gain a stake in the status quo. Those that can not be controlled are eliminated. History is rife with examples.
Sarah Palin must be seen as a real treat. She is being attacked mercilessly by the “unbiased” media. Even Republican elites are undermining her, (they see her as a threat as I have already pointed out). Any candidate that is put up gets a full examination. That is normal and right. A person running for office in a Democratic Republic should be known to the people. What is amazing to me, in this case, is that her daughters pregnancy is the number one news story in all the media in the USA for four days. The world is full of important news that is ignored because a seventeen year old girl is pregnant. Is that really more important than the ongoing occupation of Georgia by Russia? Or the troubles in Xingjian province in China, or the blood letting in India between Christians and Hindus, or the ongoing insurgency in the Philippines, or the Tamil tigers in Indonesia, or the protests in Thailand, the coup attempt in Ukraine, or the Bolivian constitutional referendum, not to mention the ongoing troubles in the Middle East? The “unbiased” media have given up all pretense of “fairness” (as if there ever was such a thing) and overtly taken sides. They see themselves as the Fifth Estate of government, and as such, are members of the elite and have a stake in the status quo.
The power arrayed against her is daunting. Anyone who stands up to the elite must be made of steel. They could be tempered by the fire of the “unbiased” media. Lesser alloys are made brittle and shatter, or, more often they are annealed and bend at the behest of the elite, but some few are actually tempered and can change the dominant paradigm. Time will tell if she is made of the right stuff.
