Veritas et Sapientia-The Tyranny of The Elite “Mainstream”

Mandeville, LA – Mainstreamers are stuck in the ’90s. Many of the senior foreign-policy advisers in the Western world are in their late 40s, 50s, and 60s. They often began their careers near the end of the Cold War. They often adore their mentors, from whom they took a sense of self-importance, a belief that every person in the world sleeping in peace owes it to them and their wisdom. They entered their prime in the ’90s, when everything seemed to be basically working. New governments in Central and Eastern Europe signing up to the liberal program and institutions, then thriving. Peace in Northern Ireland. Prosperity across much of Europe, with the introduction of the euro. Trade with China pulling scores of millions out of poverty. Free trade, free movement, American leadership, Russian retreat, political integration. Their program was working everywhere. Everyone who objected was an idiot.

They believe all these issues could have gone the other way if the wrong decisions had been made. Their regrets are always about where they didn’t intervene: Rwanda. Mainstreamers do not feel comfortable talking about social issues or the quality of social life unless it is decorated in numbers. Bringing up religion, or making observations about the quality of social relations, is almost forbidden unless it is grounded in statistics or at least longitudinal polling: number of people deemed radicalized, diagnosed instances of depression among children without fathers. Quality of education is assessed entirely with reference to measures such as the number of dropouts. This leads to a flatness of conversation. It is also a function of their liberal convictions, which rob them of a vocabulary for understanding or leading in these areas. – Michael Brendan Dougherty, Bipartisan Elite Stuck In The 1990’s

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Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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