My Great Ambition The Revolt of the Land Grant Graduates

My most infamous blog brawling opponent didn't start in on me over religion or politics, not even free speech absolutism or, most vitally important of all, my dissing the mopheads and Mick and his old stones.  No, the issue that provided the definitive break was when I dissed the Ivy League and its products who mount their campaign against The People, The World and democracy from the leadership of politics, the judiciary, the media and the military-industrial-banking complex.   I dissed Harvard quite early one morning.  And the funny thing is, the guy isn't even an Ivy league product but one of the many sycophantic lesser beings who attended a non-prestige private college.

Since then I've gotten into the habit of looking up the educational history of some of the most repugnant people in public life and, indeed, a stunning number of them have passed through those institutions for training the ruling elite class of pirates and crooks, especially the most prominent of those, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton.... and the equivalent of The University of Chicago and those who did a stint in those Brit places,  the one in the other Cambridge and Oxford. I'll insert here the observation made by some British author, whose name escapes me this morning, that Oxford boys never grow up. 

Well, I do rather despise those places that so few seem to get through without being determined to become career criminals.  They've got a lot more in common with juvie than they'ed ever like to hear, only, they being elite and massively expensive institutions, the crimes of its grad are proportionately worse.  If, as Balzac famously said,  behind every great fortune there is a crime, the Ivies are where they learn how to commit those crimes, get away with it and turn the crimes they commit into financial, economic and political doctrine and where they elevate them into legal principle.   

So, what is my great ambition?  I would like to foment a rebellion of the graduates of public schools, the great American land grant universities and smaller colleges whose ambition was the education of a democratic nation, of social mobility and which are inevitably under attack from the product of the stinking rich private schools.  The attitude is, beyond doubt, that a real education comes from the private system and that public schools are for stupid people.  As my online opponent put it at the time of our split,  "You want a community college graduate as president?"  If I had to choose among George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or Lyndon Johnsons as opposed to, say,  Bill Clinton or George H.W. or W. Bush or, indeed, Barack Obama, their credentials gained from big name colleges or lack of those wouldn't be the deciding factor but there is no doubt who were the better presidents.  I have no doubt, at all, that there are thousands of graduates of community college who would have done far better than George W. Bush, graduate of both Yale and Harvard as well one of the most elite prep schools in the country. I think you'd have to be stupid to not realize that is the case. 

So, my fellow graduates of public schools, let's dump them.  It's time to break the prep-ivy stranglehold on American democracy.   It's not as if we couldn't find those among us who couldn't do better than they have.   I'd say, considering the serial idiocies of Ivy Leagueers with power, we can do a lot better, it's unlikely we could do worse.  When both the Republicans and Democrats parrot the con job lines they cook up in those joints and we inevitably lose to their college buddies, the chances we will do worse is almost certainly lower.

There are many times more of us than there are of them.  The first step is to make it a rule never, ever to vote for a president who has never spent any time attending a public school as a student.

And those enormous endowments that grow so obscenely fat that a gilded age trust baron would drool in envy - so massive that someone like a Larry Summers can blow enormous pools of money from one without a serious impact on it - TAX THEM  AT A HIGH RATE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION.  I'd give a good part of it to places like Roxbury Community College, a quick ride from Harvard and almost as much of a contrast as you can find in any third world capital where the obscenely rich lead obscenely corrupt and opulent lives as the middle class is ground up and the poor languish in hopeless conditions.  That's what the Ivy Leaguers are clearly bent on doing to the United States.  Look at the all Ivy League Supreme Court for all the evidence you will ever need of that.