Their System (There is a Club... And you are not in it)

[David Morris]

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/

Driftglass:

Honestly, I think that Mr. Brooks' latest odious paean to
authoritarianism had less to do with Washington D.C. statuary that the
fact that Mr. Brooks is himself a rich and privileged man and getting
richer and more privileged every day. And however utterly unearned and
undeserved his wealth and privilege may be, Mr. Brooks sincerely
believes that those beneath him in the social order should be required
to shut the fuck up and defer to his.

After all, in Mr. Brooks' Beltway Universe, moral tidiness and good
order is maintained only by relentlessly flattering and cozying up to
power.

In Mr. Brooks' world, Sucking Up is The System and he who learns
earliest and best how to suppress their gag reflex and cauterize their
conscience will rise farthest and fastest. And for Mr. Brooks, no
further proof of that system's benevolent efficacy is needed beyond
the fact that Sucking Up harder than a quantum black hole is precisely
how an otherwise talentless man like Mr. Brooks accumulated his wealth
and privilege in the first place