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America’s Elites just admitted these 5 'STUNNING' beliefs

A new poll has revealed some shocking beliefs held by the majority of America's elite class. The poll, conducted on behalf of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, split the American public into the general class, elites, and "super elites" and asked a range of questions. Unsurprisingly, the majority of elite and super elite respondents considered themself Democrats. But disturbingly, they admitted to multiple beliefs that might shock even the Democrats in the general class: "77% of elites and 89% of super elites support strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity." Glenn reviews this shocking find, as well as others that shed light on why elites seem so out of touch with the rest of America: "They're supporting Biden because they're getting richer. You're feeling pain."

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GLENN: So there is a new poll out that was conducted on behalf of the committee to unleash prosperity. Which divided respondents between elites. People with at least one post-graduate degree. Earning more than $150,000, and living in ZIP codes where the population density exceeds 10,000 people per square mile.

And then they put everybody else in the general public. Okay?

So you had to have at least one post-graduate degree. 150,000-dollar job-plus.

And live in a ZIP code that's high density. Okay?

Everybody else was not considered elite.
They then recorded the responses of a subset of super elites and elites.

Now, the super elites were those who graduated from the prestigious private universities. The Ivy League, duke, Stanford, northwestern.

And that made you a super elite.

Wait until you hear what they found.

It's not going to come as a surprise.

But 73 percent of the upper class.

The super elites. And the elites. Consider themselves Democrats.

And approve of Joe Biden's performance at 84 percent.

So 73 percent of the super elites and the elites, are Democrats.

And by 84 percent, that's 73 percent, loves Joe Biden's work. Now, that's surface level. Listen to this. 74 percent of the elites, and 88 percent of the super elites report their personal finances are on the upswing.

Not a surprise, right?

The bulk of those who remain say they're either unsure, or they're getting neither better nor worse.

Then there's just a negligible portion of respondents that say their pocketbooks are getting lighter.

Now, that's all in the elites. Compare that to the Americans more generally.

The rest of the people in the survey, that don't fit into those categories that I just explained.

It's hard to believe they're living in the same country. We are becoming more and more divided, in our country. With everything. With absolutely everything.

Forty percent of Americans say their financial situation is worsening. And only 20 percent say it's improving.

So those who are elites, they all say, it's getting good. Eighty-eight percent say, it's on the upswing! Twenty percent of the regular people say it's improving. Forty percent say, it's getting bad.

Now, let's look into the rest. The class disproportionately represented in positions of influence, don't feel the same, economic pain. That Americans do.

The rest of us. Because -- because of that, it makes them less likely to take steps, that will alleviate your pain. But will actually make things worse.

They're supporting Biden because they're getting richer.

You're feeling pain.

So the elites don't see this as really a problem.

Because they're fine.

A stunning 77 percent -- 77 percent of elites. And 80 thine percent of super elites, support strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity. Let me say that number again. 77 percent of elites and 89 percent of super elites support strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity. 72 percent and 81 percent would ban gas-powered cars. 55 percent and 70 percent, would prevent Americans from engaging in non-essential air travel. Forty-seven and 55 percent, believe the government affords Americans too much freedom.

Holy cow. The rest of the country -- the country, doesn't feel that way. The -- the percentage of those who are not elites or super elites. That would agree to any of those things, is between 16 and 25 percent. 70 percent of elites double the number of average Americans. And 89 percent of super elites say they trust the government to do the right thing. This is not a war against Republicans and Democrats. This is the elites, versus everybody else. They didn't see the world the same way, at all. And I know this to be true. When you live in, let's say Manhattan. You're living -- if you're living, you know, anywhere near the park. You are not living with real people, that understand and look at America, the same way.

The easiest way to say, New Jersey, which is just across the river.

That's like hillbillies and hicks. They don't understand anything, until they get to Los Angeles.

They don't get it. And they put everything in one bucket.

They don't get it. We get it. And the people in Los Angeles get it.

The people on the coasts, everybody else, is disposable.

They don't add anything to our lives. What.

We can do whatever we want here.

We have everything we want here.

What else matters?

I mean, God forbid we do anything to London or Paris, except get rid of some of the riffraff. Because those are places we like to go to vacation at.

This poll is absolutely stunning to me.

So now, take what you know.

Again, let me just tell you again, that they approve of Joe Biden by about 83 percent.

83 percent are getting better in their -- in their finances.

They support by 77 and 89 percent, of the super elites. Support the strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity.

81 would ban the use of gas-powered cars. 70 percent would -- would prevent Americans from engaging in nonessential air travel.

And you 55 percent believe the government affords Americans too much freedom.

With that in mind, now let me tell you about Davos. Davos is putting together an exclusion list.

A list of that they're creating, to demonize sources of sharing so-called disinformation.

Now, what exactly is disinformation?

Well, disinformation is real. It is the -- it is the intent of the author, to lie to the group of people, to get them to believe something, that isn't true.

That's disinformation.

It's intentional. Misinformation is not intentional. Okay.

But now they have exclusion lists to demonetize, which means, getting rid of all advertising. Even banking access. Anybody who is sharing so-called disinformation.

The president and CEO of Internews. Internews an international nonprofit that provides support to independent media outlets in more than 100 countries.

Addressing how to prevent the spread of what they consider inaccurate information.

They talked, and did a talk, at the Davos conference panel.

And the panel was called, defending truth. Global trust in institutions is eroding. Reflected in how 40 percent of people consistently trust news. Empowering internet users with media information literacy. Advancing information integrity. And enhancing transparency, it's vital for addressing the spread of false information.

So the question was, what actions do stakeholders need to take to preserve a healthy trust ecosystem?

Now, remember, we're not talking shareholders anymore. Because that's you.

We're talking stakeholders. Those are the elected officials. The CEO of companies. The boards of directors. And the politicians. The global elite.

Oh. I forgot. Also, the university systems.

Those are the -- the stake holders.

You don't have a vote. Your vote is when you pick one of these politicians. That's your voice.

Now, they said, the most effective way to keep people from being exposed to so-called inaccurate information, is to develop a list or guides for advertisers, that tell them, where to and where not to spend.

Now, this is where it gets interesting.

Media Matters used to do this. And all of these lefty organizations. They do it because they threaten boycotts.

They say, oh. If you're not with us, then you're against us.

If you're with them, then you're our enemy.

If you decide, that their audience is worth your time and money.

We know that those people are all deplorables.

We know who they are.

The unwashed masses.

So if you want those people, as customers.

Then we're against you.

Now, they are going to the global elites. And the -- and the governments.

And they are now saying, to these stakeholders, that you don't want to advertise there.

The governments are giving people permission to be able to debank.

So they put pressure on it.

And say, this person is spending a lot of time. Saying things that just aren't true.

Like, I don't know.

The jabs may have not been the best of idea.

You can't bank with those. And if they go to the advertisers and say, you have to drop your commercials from that show, they'll be debanked if they don't. You see how this blackmail works.

Now, listen to this. Disinformation makes money, and we need to follow that money.

And we need to work with, in particular, the global advertising community.

Those dollars are going to pretty bad content. So you can work really hard on exclusion lists. Or inclusion lists.

But just folks on their ad dollars, going to good news, and information.

The accurate and relevant news and information. I'm going to continue this, and show you what is coming.

GLENN: Okay. So here's what Internews does. They train journalists and digital rights activists.

They tackle disinformation and offer business expertise to help media outlets become financially sustainable.

Look at the incentives. The organization aims to eliminate disinformation designed to manipulate elections, distort public debate, incite violence, or undermine public health.

All of these things are good in noble causes. We just don't agree on what's true or not.

What the public health is. I think by pointing out, hey.

You know, the testing of that jab, it's not what they say it is. Hey, I think it actually came from a lab, that we helped fund in China.

I believe that's the truth, asking questions only leads you closer to the truth.

They think that's disinformation.

This is a -- they say, a national and global security threat this year because of the elections.

You need to shore up your credibility with everybody you know.

You need to get rid of all of the things in your life, that you might have done wrong. Or are doing wrong. Get them out into the open.

Clean them all up. Make amends where you can, so you don't have anything to fear.

Then you need to start speaking out. But you need to be well-researched. You're smart enough to figure things out. You don't immediately sign on to things, that you're like, oh, my gosh. Here's the silver bullet. And it's exactly the answer I was looking for.

Be cautious of those things. Do extra research.

You know, the things I tell you, I -- oh. I really want to be wrong.

I really want to be wrong on these things. To ever

I hope that I am.

But one thing that disinformation, the real purveyors of disinformation do, will say, don't ask any questions.

You can't ask that question. You just accept this.

You should ask questions of not only people you agree with. But people you disagree with. You should ask questions to the -- the deepest questions to yourself.

Because if you stop asking and talking to people who differ with you, then you grow arrogant.

And you become just like those people.

You become so arrogant, I have nothing to learn from you. You're just a moron. You're beneath me.

Did you go to Harvard? I did.

No. I didn't. And that's why I'm still asking questions.

You should always ask questions and people who tell you not, just to trust them. Run from them. And don't become like them.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.