{"id":11998,"date":"2019-09-25T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2019-09-25T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:48:17","slug":"our-privileged-scolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-privileged-scolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Privileged Scolds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One theme of the Democratic debates is collective furor \u2014 at whom or what is not always clear, other than at Americans who voted for Trump. Or perhaps at America itself for failing the expectations of our moral betters? Yet such rage is so deeply embedded in hypocrisy that it is not merely hard to take; it\u2019s even harder to believe it\u2019s serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So upset are our woke progressive candidates that they insist that the rich, the privileged, the white, and the native-born must now pay ever more penance. Amid such acrimony is an inconvenient truth, though one that remains utterly unspoken: Most of those on stage who are so livid at the exploitative \u201csystem\u201d have become wealthy and quite privileged through it \u2014 especially since they have spent so much of their adult lives gaming supposedly poorly compensated political service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multimillionaire, mansion-living, ethnic-identity-stealing, and formerly house-flipping Senator Elizabeth Warren talks nonstop about corporate greed, endemic racism, and the need for executive fiats to deal with right-wing American pathologies. In Warren\u2019s reductionist world, every sin originates with some Snidely Whiplash corporate CEO with a black top hat and handlebar moustache who trumped the success of her own past cynical efforts several hundred times over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/privileged-scolds-should-lead-by-example-before-lecturing-others\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review One theme of the Democratic debates is collective furor \u2014 at whom or what is not always clear, other than at Americans who voted for Trump. Or perhaps at America itself for failing the expectations of our moral betters? Yet such rage is so deeply embedded in hypocrisy that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13228,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/optimism-inc-part-5-the-most-privileged-of-the-privileged\/","url_meta":{"origin":11998,"position":0},"title":"Optimism, Inc. 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