This past week, I saw the phrase “elite decline” on Twitter, in these comments on Amy Chua’s testimonial for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and how she basically ratted on her own conflict of interest:
"Judge Kavanaugh has done me a personal favor so now I'm writing nice things about him". We're at the stage of elite decline where they literally don't know how they sound to ordinary people, where they have no idea that trading favors among the elite is corruption
— Rich Puchalsky Ⓐ (@RichPuchalsky) July 13, 2018
Just two days later, I happened upon another remarkably similar example:
So that they are willing to listen when I call to object about issues that negatively affect humanity
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2018
Set aside all the other baggage accompanying this particular disgrace and with Mr. Musk in general. Set aside also his claim to “humanitarian” reasons. Here is a very rich person explaining that he gives money to politicians to buy himself priority access which the rest of us don’t get. He apparently did not consider this anything to be ashamed of.
