Ruling Overclass Worships Education; Dismissive of Well-Paid Work
"Everyone had a fine retirement package and subsidized health care, and each was immune to the vicissitudes of middle-class economic life. From their cloistered positions, the solution to nearly all perceived problems — from globalization to crime — is education, which was their own personal visa into the merit-obsessed overclass." Oklahoman Brad Carson, former Democratic congressman and a Cherokee tribal member, writing in Real Clear Politics.