First, you read it here, where I looked into the... well not sure what to call it, either some kind of insight into elite hubris and disgust for the masses ever having a voice, or.... well, an example of their blindness.  I'm talking about Anne Applebaum. I only knew her from all the books about the terror of commies. Sure, it's a thing, but if it's the only thing you're focused on, well... it says something about a person, IMO. So when her piece on the imperialistic Afghan war basically blames Americans for any bad that happens (but let the elites who made 💰 off that war off the hook), well, you kinda see where she's coming from. 

And you can easily see the sort of "top of the meritocracy heap" mindset where the elites can never fail, only be failed, thinking (interestingly enough, the kind of commie thinking that led to so much heartache in the countries she had written about, nevertheless). 

It goes on with the link above.

This is how our elites are thinking right now. All critics of the status quo are losers (and she makes sure to point out the right, then paint the left with the same brush [1]). That's it. No idea about how to improve a damn thing. Or even, the system is so good in finding talent, well, can we be blamed for these losers? Note, this is in a country with a large amount of death and misery from the past couple decades (nvm what it's inflicted elsewhere). Life expectancy dropping, but I imagine that's all the same to her and that ilk. 

Speaking of her ilk, Friedman, the guy who wanted nothing but war (and never revisited his logic) and also told us MBS was the modern future the ME needed... well he's shocked that we've turned int o a version of the ME dead-democracy that we were meant to change. Shocking. Wonder if there will be any self-awareness with this one either. 

Well, ladies and gentlemen, our meritocratic elite. Meanwhile, after dems fought off some bs GOP recall election, our centrists ask why didn't the GOP have a more reasonable person (while the GOP is claiming this is all a stolen election)? Just amazing galaxy brain stuff here. 

Oh, and a general took power from the last POTUS. I don't like the guy, and I know it happened with Nixon too, but fuck what a worthless system that levers the constitution has don't work, so these extrajudicial means are taken instead. Seriously, this and "all elections we lose are stolen" GOP, nvm the SCOTUS and their "fuck the reconstruction amendments" really mean the constitution is more or less dead and theocrats can do what they want if they wanted to. 

And, to get an idea of our elites' level of morality, here's a bird being exceptionally cruel to its own child. Serious NSFL stuff so don't watch if you can't stomach infanticide (even if a bird)

[1] Note, that I kinda think this is why rich thing grassroots have a more top down element to them. The rich want them as a buffer. 1/2 fights the other 1/2, kinda thing, but with crazies like anti-vaxxers in the mix, if you paint them all with the same brush, you have less criticism in general.