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I'm constantly hearing from liberal friends about how "the elites" -- by whom they mean, rich Republicans and never Barbra Streisand, Noam Chomsky, or George Soros -- used to have a sense of "noblesse oblige", by which they mean that even rich Republicans once upon a time used to actually serve in military combat (and implying that this hasn't happened since the Korean War.)
You deserve more comments ...
I'm constantly hearing from liberal friends about how "the elites" -- by whom they mean, rich Republicans and never Barbra Streisand, Noam Chomsky, or George Soros -- used to have a sense of "noblesse oblige", by which they mean that even rich Republicans once upon a time used to actually serve in military combat (and implying that this hasn't happened since the Korean War.)
This is irritating on a number of levels, but for one -- and for the purposes of this comment -- it's irritating that my liberal friends expect Republicans to value the military even though liberals and Democrats seem not to; while they expect the military to be a democratizing egalitarian force for enabling ethnic minorities, immigrants, women, gays, and the poor to climb the ladder toward the Ameircan dream; while ignoring the fact that better fed, presumably better-bred, and more expensively educated "elites" who might serve (*cough, cough *K*E*R*R*Y* four months* cough *Quayle* golf cough cough) at best tend to degrade the image of the military's meritocratic culture.
So, to the pith -- what do you think of "elites" being recruited at
This is irritating on a number of levels, but for one -- and for the purposes of this comment -- it's irritating that my liberal friends expect Republicans to value the military even though liberals and Democrats seem not to; while they expect the military to be a democratizing egalitarian force for enabling ethnic minorities, immigrants, women, gays, and the poor to climb the ladder toward the Ameircan dream; while ignoring the fact that better fed, presumably better-bred, and more expensively educated "elites" who might serve (*cough, cough *K*E*R*R*Y* four months* cough *Quayle* golf cough cough) at best tend to degrade the image of the military's meritocratic culture.
So, to the pith -- what do you think of "elites" being recruited at
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