I really do not understand at what point we forgot that this is how it works.
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?

The capitalisation of "he" is very important here; I read it the other way at first.

2/2

Sen Bill Cassidy, a liver-disease MD, complains about this ruling, as I am doing.

Here's the difference: He, personally, could have prevented all the resulting casualties, by casting the swing vote against RFK Jr. That's a power the other 330+ million of us lacked.

Don't let him forget it.

A similar force is at work with some prominent Brexiteers - many of whom are from families who formed the imperial detritus. They can't forgive England for not being the country they thought they understood from air-mailed copies of Country Life.

My wife, who studied for two years in Berkeley, points out another huge cultural difference. American clergy have to sell themselves to their congregations, who pay them directly. C of E clergy are paid through their organisation.

Ely cathedral still has battle honours hanging on the walls, and a stained glass window in memory of the pathfinder squadron. Every time I see it, I think "But they were war criminals" -- and also incredibly brave young men who died to stop the Germans doing it to us. .

me too, and I still haven't got a theory of why it happened.

we call it The Epidural chez nous as its only when you try and stand up you realise you've lost the use of your legs

And to think that there were people who thought he was capable of being Prime Minister

Badenoch was selected as an MP before the rise of Farage. I used to live in her constituency, and racism was then taboo. Literally unspeakable, and thought morally wrong even within the Tory party.

One big reason was that during and immediately after the sexual revolution Christianity was seen on the Left as a bunch of old men trying to stop us getting laid: maximally uncool. Another is the the C of E was very much the church of imperial Britain. Also now uncool.

But it's not as if you reach your own beliefs from a standpoint outside the culture you were raised in.