"It is a tragedy that the young seem to have jettisoned this foundational American ideal, or more likely were never exposed to it in the first place. The traditional view that political victory and loss are both part of the democratic process and the gist of a self-constituting polity has been replaced with a Leninist drive to nullify one's opponent. The principle of the radical politics now consuming the country seems to be "I win, you disappear."
Elites, especially the professoriate, bear much of the responsibility for this state of affairs. For decades in classrooms and lecture halls they laid the groundwork for the present moment. The politics of intolerance preached in nearly every realm of American life assumes that those in "flyover country" are in effect no longer fellow citizens, as they are incapable of grasping the shibboleths of the globalist international order. They are irretrievably from somewhere, and once stripped of their community -- say, because their job was shipped off to Asia -- they become internally displaced, with neither their views nor lifestyle deserving of elite respect. Those who speak on their behalf are dismissed as "populists," all but unfit to be heard in polite society.
American free-market capitalism has been both the most destructive and the most creative framework for generating wealth and innovation. Yet historically, its destructive quality was tempered by the regnant nationalism of its people, one that ultimately superseded the idea of class. The Rockefellers, Fords and Carnegies -- and more recently the Kennedys and the Bushes -- saw themselves bound to their nation and the attendant principle of mutuality of obligation, giving back in money and service to the country that made their success possible. They saw themselves as Americans first, even though they had the means to be citizens of the world.
In contrast, America's corporate elite today, especially its financial plutocrats on the East Coast and digital aristocracy on the West Coast, seem keener to work on "global problems." The commitment to one's country is seen as a sign of retrograde populism to be stamped out at the first possible opportunity.
Corporate elites have pushed a self-serving vision of a world of transnationalism unconstrained by local cultures and institutions, many of which took centuries to establish and consolidate. The new credentialed oligarchy -- people simultaneously from everywhere and nowhere -- feels an ever more tenuous sense of obligation to its fellow nationals.
The assault on the constitutional right of citizens to speak freely unless they affirm first the increasingly intolerant orthodoxy has been unrelenting. The nation's freedom is being abridged by incessant charges of structural racism, white privilege, homophobia and intolerance, with few pausing to consider the effect on liberal traditions. Today the neo-Marxists control almost all areas of elite discourse in the U.S., and can thus cancel any opposition by hurling "populism" or "racism" at anyone who refuses to submit to their ideological line." [1]
Lithuanian Conservatives, lead by Landsbergis family are typical contemporary liberal party. Indoctrinated young people are voting for them.
1. The American Experiment Is on Life Support
Michta, Andrew A. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]27 Oct 2020: A.15.
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