Trego's Mountain Ear

I saw these quotes and graphs on Instapundit: “Those born in a high social class and who have inherent low ability, and thus fall a social class, are the most resentful and vocal. They also are the least impactful people on long term trends, yet are deceptive in their overcrowding of the present zeitgeist.” Cremieux had posted these graphs taken from Finnish social scientists, commenting: “There’s a lot of truth to this. Wherever we have data, we see this repeated: Communists tend to be downwardly mobile. They are, always and everywhere, disproportionately likely to be their generation’s losers. Consider this Finnish data on the Red and White Guards:”

It just may make sense – the problem socialists have with Americans is that we all believe we’re middle class with a chance to be higher. I don’t know about folks with unemployable college degrees (and my degrees are in the much mocked field of sociology). I do like the Finn’s study of the Reds and Whites at the time of the Russian revolution.