More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
Seems to me he's telling us 'commoners' to set our expectations low, and KEEP them there. The 'happy idiocy' he describes applies - in REAL life - to a brutal and daily struggle for mere survival.
