Douthat: “The Cult Deficit”
28th September 2014
Steve Sailer ponders the latest from Ross Douthat.
I particularly enjoy his discussion of ‘the Harvard-Yale cult’, of which I am a proud member.\
The whole point of Skull and Bones is to create a tiny self-perpetuating elite within the small elite of Harvard-Yale insiders: e.g., Secretary of State John F. Kerry (Class of ’66) was one of the Bonesmen who tapped the Class of ’67 Bonesmen who tapped President George W. Bush (Class of ’68). Thus having both Presidential nominees be Bonesmen is just the fulfillment of the plan.
The fact that Bones includes a mediocrity like Bush and a flake like Kerry suggests that the system still has a few bugs in it.
Indeed, I think a good case could be made that if the Constitution excluded from the office of the Presidency anybody who had an Ivy League degree, the world would be a much better place. (Certainly it would have taken a very different turn starting in about, oh, 1900.)