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Hopefully your article will spread like a windows virus and open up people’s eyes.
Thanks,
— G.O. Burton
Awesome piece, I heard this from Rush Limbaugh today, keep
up the good work.
— Nghi Nguyen
Perhaps Rush’s best-ever program…
— Michael Leo
Codevilla’s “Ruling Class” essay is nothing short of brilliant and exactly on target. Thank you for publishing this timely and relevant piece. I hope it is widely circulated to get the attention it deserves.
Keep up the good work with your fine website.
— Katherine Poehlmann, PhD
Torrance,
California
Wow…..great article. Really crystallizes what we all see
happening. We need to stop this freight train.
— Scott Denhof
I don’t know where to begin or how to express my complete
awe of the essay written by Angelo Codevilla. Accurate and
thorough in addressing the multitude issues symptomatic of our
national decline, I sit here stunned at his clarity as he
addresses, the issues I have been wanting to scream out from the
rooftops. We are in grave danger and our options are rapidly
running out.
— Dick Curtis
Great piece on ruling class.
— Dr. Don Beck
This article is the BEST I have read! Angelo M. Codevilla,
should be given the Nobel Peace Prize, for this subject matter
has been sitting out there for so long, but never brought to
light in such a clear fashion as it was written!
— Forrest W. Shafford
South West
Georgia
Bet Mr. Codevilla doesn’t get invited to many BU cocktail
parties.
— James J.
Axon
The author incorrectly states that the Soviet Union did not
arrest people who wore crosses or read the Bible on school
property. It depends on which year is the subject of discussion.
The topic is a large one, but driving home a contemporary
American politics point by an incomplete generalization about
another country’s history only serves to mislead readers.
— Zoe Pierson
West Warwick, Rhode
Island
“The Ruling Class” is the most thoughtful and lucid article I have read in my almost 52 years! It summarized all that I have come to believe about American politics and taught me things that I will forever hold to.
I have long believed that journalism is dead. Thank you for publishing a true journalistic masterpiece.
I am emailing this article to everyone I know. Keep up the
great work.
— Jeff Roberts
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Brian Mc| 7.23.10 @ 7:48AM
I'm not very computer-savvy but suffice to say, this was the first article I've saved to my documents.
Let us pray that the revolution can now begin and that there is no blood shed as we move toward the country of our founding.
S. Ruger| 7.23.10 @ 8:51AM
Brian Heffron writes, "Pure, uncut lies and falsehoods: Utter nonsense from a dictatorial right wing POV," regarding Prof. Codevilla's essay on what he calls the ruling class.
Mr. Heffron, please elaborate. In this forum you won't be voted off the island for engaging in honest debate (as one will be on Kos or -- in the near future -- Salon.com). I'd like to hear what you have to say.
Radegunda| 7.23.10 @ 4:16PM
Don't hold your breath. I doubt that he read much of the article anyway.
But he might start by explaining what he means by "dictatorial right wing.
Louis Jenkins| 7.23.10 @ 8:57AM
It was a great article. Even the radio talk show hosts are talking about. The clarion's call to the masses in fly over country.
Will Turner| 7.23.10 @ 10:23AM
I agree that our country is divided in the way Prof. Codevilla describes. There is another dimension about which people seem afraid to speak. The world views of the ruling class and the citizen class are hopelessly irreconcilable. But even more ominous is the # of Americans who continue to support the same ruling class officials; and the juggernaut of entitlements continues to grow the burgeoning dependent class upon whom the ruling class itself depends. Let's be realistic: our republic will not be retaken by voting (I'm for voting, but it's no longer enough). Let's recognize that we are just steps away from civil war. With that sobering cloud hanging over us let us redouble our efforts to make our voices heard. Don't be an American Spectator; be a participant. With heart and soul engage now in the turbulent war of ideas. As for me, I'm also prepared for the war of violence that may be inevitable.
S. Ruger| 7.23.10 @ 12:36PM
I think you'll be able to leave that AR in the safe, Mr. Turner. The economic violence that is being done -- and will continue with a vengeance in 2011 -- will be enough to upset the apple cart of the ruling class without physical violence. State governors, with the backing of their legislatures, will be a major source of the push-back.
Kurt| 7.23.10 @ 10:43AM
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them"
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government"
"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, To wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson we need you now to change our 2010 path to destruction!!! Can the sheeple be awoken in time!!! My personal hope is Texas secedes before the mother load hits the fan!!!
Clinton nee Publius | 7.23.10 @ 11:43AM
The only real solution is to create an economic society that renders the political class irrelevant. This economic society would have to be self-sustaining and self-regulating in nature, as all government regulation is, by definition, a corruption of the market's natural outcome.
Think about it...
Steve Gruber| 7.23.10 @ 12:44PM
This article is a class act: if there is but one article that best describes the divide between the elitists who have ruled the academy and politics for the past half century, and ordinary Americans, this article is it. Print it, save it, share it with your children.
Leo| 7.23.10 @ 2:57PM
This article should be read by everybody in America. I send it to everybody I know.
PCC| 7.24.10 @ 9:46AM
Terrific diagnosis! A pity about the prescription.
Minuteman| 7.24.10 @ 10:29AM
Rare insight. Keen analysis which takes this topic to another level of understanding. An opened window on American politics.
Dan McKay| 7.24.10 @ 9:11PM
Magnificent writing by all. A Thomas Paine is surely among us.
Ken Roberts| 7.25.10 @ 9:09PM
I was wanting to read this and missed it but I found it in previous week and I copied and pasted it into word it took about 4 minutes but I am sure it will be worth the read when I have about two hours to sit down without interruption and read it all. I think we have a bigger problem then the two parties as they are both laced with corruption and crime. I will find out when I read this, I will call it a book, a short book but a book just the same .
Kevin S.| 7.26.10 @ 2:03PM
The article on the whole is excellent, but fails to address some relevant points. Points that have been covered extensively by Prof. G. William Domhoff for decades (Who Rules America). The ruling class is directed and controlled by the major shareholders of income producing properties. The very interests that - some - conservatives wish to further strengthen. The "Ruling Class" is a combination of the social upper class and high level managers of major corporations, foundation heads, government officials, university heads, to name a few. These people compromise a power elite, i.e. a ruling class. The article seems to dismiss the role of mutli-national corporations and regional business interests, who in actuality are the driving force behind the Ruling Class.