The self-importance of (cultural) tin-pot potentates

I ran into a rather bizarre article on a friend’s Facebook feed. Not that bizarre is all that bizarre/unusual anymore.

Apparently President Trump took over the board of the Kennedy Performing Arts Center. This has caused many musicians to break contracts with the center in protest. Among the vain hubris lines in the article are the following:

“Trump is radioactive with the people he wants to impress most…”


Hmm, he isn’t radioactive with me. So the writer of the article must not consider that the president has any interest in impressing the regular voters who put him in office.

The article continues with detailing the people who resigned their positions in protest (BTW making it easier for Trump to implement the changes he wants, since there will be fewer people staying there to try and sabotage the Center from inside). Both the writer of the article and the people who resigned described Trump in specifically biased and prejudicial terms instead of providing any factual basis for their evaluation of his and his appointees qualifications.

But the quote that really shows the that the author of the article is living in a dream/nightmare land of his own making, is the following conclusion to the article:

“This is the kind of rejection that infuriates Donald Trump more than anything. He has long wanted to be accepted by America’s cultural elites. Instead, they see him for the cruel, fascist, incompetent failure he truly is.”

What a big lot of hog swill and horse hooey, or whatever terms of mocking and sarcasm are in vogue today.

Trump could care less about pleasing people who have always mongered hate and called him cruel and a fascist.  But he knows the way to keep them from poking their noses into the really important stuff he is doing for the people that really matter to him — those that voted for him and other common non-elitist American citizens – is to keep the increasingly irrelevant cultural elitists targeted on unimportant and worthless targets that their dogma and political religiosity demand they respond to, even when the response proves counterproductive to them.

Let the elites be elite, and let them be alone. High atop their ivory pillars and ivory towers of irrelevance.

I do not say we hate them. We care for them and would welcome them back – but not as our (ruling) elite. For as an elite they think they have no responsibility to the rest of us for any of their actions.
We have been living lives of freedom and responsibility and will continue to do so.

These “elites” don’t realize that they don’t control our culture. Oh they have tried to twist it and subvert it to their wills, but they only succeeded (a little) when they had the tools to keep the cultural Overton Window where they were. But they actively moved outside the window, and the window has moved away from them, returning their tenuous cultural control back tr the common citizen, where it truly has always resided, and only ever left because the common citizen is tolerant and indulgent of others not like themselves – two traits these elites lack, a lack which sealed their current irrelevance.