te intelligentsia . . . but is also an empirical comparison between the promised benefits of policies based on that vision and the grim and often bitter consequences of [the] political and judicial decisions [made by "followers" of that elite] (x).
In other words, he says, he will show us the way the liberal elite in various institutions of the country view reality, and then he will shows us how their policies, based on that "vision," create not the paradise he says they promise, but instead a nation which is coming apart at the seams, evidenced by "crime, family disintegration, and other crucial phenomena of our times" (x).
Sowell's own right-wing vision is evident when he compares the "anointed" in the United States with the Nazis (1), although he says the "anointed" are not :"especially evil.' They have merely made "mistakes.
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