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Another Marie Antoinette moment from our out-of-touch Ruling Class.

Here's Peggy Noonan's take on America's current state of discontent...

America Is at Risk of Boiling Over

And out-of-touch leaders don't see the need to cool things off.

Optimists think that if we manage to turn a few things around, their kids may have it...almost as good. The country they inherit may be...almost as good. And it's kind of a shock to think like this; pessimism isn't in our DNA. But it isn't pessimism, really, it's a kind of tough knowingness, combined, in most cases, with a daily, personal commitment to keep plugging.

But do our political leaders have any sense of what people are feeling deep down? They don't act as if they do. I think their detachment from how normal people think is more dangerous and disturbing than it has been in the past. I started noticing in the 1980s the growing gulf between the country's thought leaders, as they're called—the political and media class, the universities—and those living what for lack of a better word we'll call normal lives on the ground in America. The two groups were agitated by different things, concerned about different things, had different focuses, different world views.

But I've never seen the gap wider than it is now. I think it is a chasm. In Washington they don't seem to be looking around and thinking, Hmmm, this nation is in trouble, it needs help. They're thinking something else. I'm not sure they understand the American Dream itself needs a boost, needs encouragement and protection. They don't seem to know or have a sense of the mood of the country.

And so they make their moves, manipulate this issue and that, and keep things at a high boil. And this at a time when people are already in about as much hot water as they can take.

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When the adults of a great nation feel long-term pessimism, it only makes matters worse when those in authority take actions that reveal their detachment from the concerns—even from the essential nature—of their fellow citizens. And it makes those citizens feel powerless.

Inner pessimism and powerlessness: That is a dangerous combination.

Peggy, you're a sweetheart; but you don't see how deeply this division runs. There's a definite political destination we're being directed to; that direction is unspoken except for unclear and amorphous promises of "CHANGE". That direction ends when the middle class of America is no better off than the average World Citizen in, say, Paraguay or Cuba or Venezuela or China or Kenya.

We are being forced to flatten our lifestyles. America is no longer acceptable to our elite ruling class as an exceptional nation. There must be this take-down, to force all of us to accept lower standards than we've enjoyed (obviously at the expense of others, you evil AMRERICANS!). It's time to believe Barack Hussein Obama (who grew up in Indonesia, was raised by a communist mother and father, was forever influenced by far-left professors and radical associations throughout his formative years) when he tells us that we must share the wealth. That we are no better than any other nation on the planet.

Peggy sees from her perch some quick movements in the forest; some swaying of the trees as the storm builds. At ground level, just below the surface, there's some real CHANGE brewing.

We, really, are not amused.

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