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Brian A. M.
@brianam2006.bsky.social
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It's a bit embarrassing that I didn't realize my middle and last initials could be used to make an AM radio joke until making this account.

(that's definitely my House [and Senate], and not just the funniest image I had on hand downloaded)
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This sounds really impressive until you think a little harder and realize its literally only saying that the three Progressive presidents each went to elite colleges. And not even any of the same ones? And their are a million asterisks about their ascension to the presidency? weird point David Brook
From the Atlantic Article "How Ivy League Admission Broke America" by David Brooks: "Once on campus, studying was frowned upon. Those who cared about academics—the 'grinds'—were social outcasts. But students competed ferociously to get into the elite social clubs: Ivy at Princeton, Skull and Bones at Yale, the Porcellian at Harvard. These clubs provided the well-placed few with the connections that would help them ascend to white-shoe law firms, to prestigious banks, to the State Department, perhaps even to the White House. (From 1901 to 1921, every American president went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.) People living according to this social ideal valued not academic accomplishment but refined manners, prudent judgment, and the habit of command. This was the age of social privilege."
November 19, 2024 at 10:17 AM