Konyok.
Yes, your alliteration was excellent and I didn’t like runing it. I’m glad you agree that statism is the better word. So I’ve labored to restore your alliteration.
Our opponents are not so much doctrinaire statists as they are the stately who’ve been indoctrinated.
Not yet satisfactory; but I think I’ve moved closer.
Here’s what stately brings to the meme. It is a word, as is opulence, almost lost since there is so little difference in America between the living conditions of the middle and upper classes save for the desire to work and excess.
Done right, stately will connote statists. Recall that Hazlitt highlighted how the “levelers” most always want to level down and not up.
stately (adjective)
Inflected Form(s): state·li·er; state·li·est
Date: 15th century1 a: marked by lofty or imposing dignity b: haughty , unapproachable
2: impressive in size or proportions
The first meaning captures much more than socialite the meaning of elite.
The second meaning suggests the wall the stately wish to see between themselves and the hoi polloi, the “little people.”
Inner party membership is THE privilege sought, a desire Democrats claim is dreadful. They certainly don’t want their most naive followers to notice. And now you came along and shed some light. Damn you Konyok!
Does not stately add a twist of contumely to they who wish to be socialites? There is guilt in they who seek self-adulation, and it is ripe to be exploited. As we see, such self-serving is never brought up by MSM, themselves being wannabes, so that spotlighting now becomes our duty. Like I warned earlier, forget getting help and only opprobrium from the old bulls of the GOP.
More. There’s justice too. Since our levelers have so often laid guilt at our feet, they have earned to get it back in spades did they not? Hence I think stately in our new formation highlights shortcomings of seeking socialite status. They want to be beyond reach? Let us belabor them with the thought that in India the lowest cast are the Untouchables.
Your turn.
