Angelo Codevilla comes close to understanding America’s ruling class, Foseti says:
Here are a few quotes that almost get there: “for the sake of getting on the right side of history”… “By identifying science and reason with themselves, our rulers delegitimize opposition”… “Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits.”
This point needs to be made very explicit. The ruling class of today is in power because of the historical successes of hard science. Nothing has a better record of revealing the truth than hard science. The hard sciences triumphed over religion during the last centuries and therefore, the systems of government that were embraced by religion were destroyed when religion fell to science.
The new ruling class then pulled a clever switcheroo. They cloaked various subjects that cannot be scientific with a veneer of science. Thus, the rulers can make it appear that their rule is the outcome of a scientific process. Unfortunately, this is impossible. The movement of falling bodies is amenable to scientific processes, the governance of people is not.
This scientific veneer allows the ruling class to claim truth. It therefore allows them to write history. Thus, no politicians will challenge the core beliefs of the ruling class as doing so will put them on “the wrong side of history.” The ruling class, after all, writes the history.