Affirmative Action as Skip-Level Class Warfare
Elites use affirmative action to destroy merit.
Part 1: The Strategy to Undermine Middle America
Middle America is more than just a region—it's the very backbone of this country. It comprises hardworking men and women who strive to build better lives for their families through grit and perseverance. These individuals embody the ideals of meritocracy, where effort and ability lead to success. But in recent years, there’s been a quiet betrayal unfolding. A calculated strategy, "skip-level class warfare," erodes middle America’s stability and potential.
What Is Skip-Level Class Warfare?
Skip-level class warfare is a covert tactic used by the elites, the top 1% who possess immense wealth and influence, to maintain their grip on power. Instead of directly confronting middle America, they’ve allied with a group motivated by resentment toward the success and stability of the middle class.
This envious group isn’t striving to achieve middle-class success through hard work and determination. Instead, they focus on discontent—resenting others who’ve built better lives for themselves through diligence. The elites exploit this resentment to divide and conquer, presenting themselves as allies to the underprivileged while quietly targeting the success and influence of middle America.
But why is middle America their target? Two significant reasons explain this approach:
Middle America Does the Work – They are the productive core of the nation, providing the labor, innovation, and structure that keep everything running. For elites, this makes them a valuable source of productivity to exploit.
Middle America Values Integrity – Guided by religious and moral principles, the middle class often acts with goodwill and fairness. These values, while noble, make them vulnerable to manipulation by elites who cloak their intentions under virtuous narratives.
How the Alliance Works
Here’s how the elites pull it off. They use policies and narratives that support those struggling, framing themselves as champions of fairness and equality. However, these tactics are carefully designed not to uplift the underprivileged but to strip resources, opportunities, and influence from the middle class.
Take economic policies, for example. On the surface, they might claim to tax the wealthy and redistribute wealth to those in need. Yet, in reality, they target small business owners and working families with regulations and taxation that impede their ability to get ahead. Meanwhile, the most prominent corporations receive loopholes and advantages that protect their dominance.
Social narratives play a similar role. Elites emphasize equality and fairness, but these ideas diminish the importance of merit and hard work. By shifting focus away from effort and destroying meritocracy, they ensure their children and inner circles advance to the top, even if they’ve done little to earn it.
This creates a system where connections matter more than capability, and the middle class is squeezed further down. Hardworking individuals are asked to shoulder more significant burdens while receiving fewer rewards, disillusioned by a game rigged against them.
The Long-Term Goal
The ultimate purpose of skip-level class warfare is the concentration of power at the very top. By displacing middle America and dismantling meritocracy, elites create a self-perpetuating cycle of privilege. Their children glide into top schools and positions of influence based on wealth and status rather than ability.
Meanwhile, the rhetoric of fairness and equality pacifies the resentful alliance that serves as a distraction. Even if their lives do not improve, the envious group feels vindicated when the middle class is undermined.
And middle America? They’re left confused. They wonder why the rules keep changing. Why does hard work no longer translate to upward mobility? Why do their families struggle more while achieving less?
This is the price of skip-level class warfare—a deliberate strategy to keep middle America at a disadvantage, all while consolidating wealth and influence at the top.
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Part 2: Affirmative Action and the Elimination of the SAT
This strategy becomes particularly vivid when we examine college admissions, specifically the implementation of affirmative action and the push to eliminate the SAT. These policies are often framed as promoting fairness and equal opportunity. But dig a bit deeper, and it becomes clear they’re another instance of skip-level class warfare.
Affirmative Action as a Mask for Elitism
When affirmative action was introduced, its goal was noble—to create opportunities for historically disadvantaged groups and give them access to better education and jobs. However, it has become a Trojan horse for another agenda over time.
The elites have co-opted affirmative action as a shield, using it to manipulate admissions systems in their favor. Here’s what’s happening:
Who Gains the Most? While affirmative action is supposed to benefit the underprivileged, data shows that affluent members of racial minorities often benefit disproportionately. The truly disadvantaged—those from low-income households—see a slight improvement in access.
Holistic Admissions and Subjectivity – Legacy admissions, donor preferences, and subjective assessments (like essays and extracurriculars) dominate the process. These heavily favor students with access to expensive consultants and resources—the children of the elite.
Instead of empowering the marginalized, affirmative action policies often bypass them, delivering benefits to those who already hold relative privilege within their groups. For middle America, these policies represent another loss—a shift in opportunities that once rewarded effort and skill.
Why Eliminate the SAT?
The SAT once stood as a rare equalizer—a consistent measure of academic ability. No matter where a student came from, a high SAT score was a ticket to opportunity. But today, this test has come under relentless attack, painted as unfair and elitist. So why are elites so eager to get rid of it?
The answer is simple. The SAT makes it harder for connections and privilege to dominate. A 1400 on the SAT means the same thing, whether it’s achieved by a student at an elite prep school or from an unknown public high school.
For middle America—those who may not have access to expensive tutors or Ivy League networks—the SAT represented a chance to succeed on their own merits. But for the elites, this objectivity is a threat. Without it, they can push their underperforming children into top schools under subjective systems like essays, interviews, and extracurriculars—factors easily manipulated with money and influence.
Destroying Meritocracy
Eliminating standardized testing completes the erosion of meritocracy. Without a fair measure, admissions rely entirely on subjective criteria. These favor wealth, social connections, and perceptions of privilege. For middle-class families, this is devastating. Hardworking students lose out to less capable applicants whose main advantage is their family’s financial clout.
Elites are destroying one of the last tools that level the playing field by targeting the SAT. And they’re doing so under the guise of fairness—a cynical move cloaked in virtue.
The Bigger Picture
When we step back, the patterns are evident. Affirmative action and the elimination of the SAT are not isolated reforms—they are deliberate tactics in the broader strategy of skip-level class warfare. They create the illusion of fairness while dismantling systems that once provided opportunity for all.
The elites are playing a long game, solidifying their control by ensuring the pathways to success remain increasingly opaque and exclusive. And once again, middle America bears the brunt of this manipulation, watching its opportunities shrink and its achievements devalued.
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Reclaiming Fairness
Middle America deserves better—a system that rewards effort, talent, and skill without interference from those manipulating it for personal gain. Reclaiming fairness starts with understanding the tactics used against you. Recognizing how policies that seem progressive are often tools of exploitation is the first step in fighting back.
Affirmative action, eliminating standardized tests, and other policies driven by the elites are not about improving equity or opportunity. They are about consolidating power. And the cost of their actions is not just your opportunities—but the principles that make this country strong.
It’s time to expose these tactics, stand up for fairness, and fight for a system where merit matters. Middle America isn’t just the nation’s backbone—it makes our world go round.
Here are some sources:
The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action - This article explores how affirmative action might provide advantages to minority students who are not necessarily disadvantaged[^1].
The Case Against Affirmative Action - This piece argues that if preferences were meant to remedy disadvantage, they would be based on socioeconomic status rather than race[^2].
The Problem With Wealth-Based Affirmative Action - This article discusses the inadequacy of wealth-based preferences as a substitute for race-based affirmative action, highlighting complexities in the system[^3].
These articles provide insights into the debate around the socioeconomic backgrounds of affirmative action beneficiaries.
[^1]: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-sad-irony-of-affirmative-action
[^2]: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-case-against-affirmative-action
Sources
Affirmative action mythbusters
The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action
The Case Against Affirmative Action
The Problem With Wealth-Based Affirmative Action
Invincible Voices - Legacy Admissions: A Veiled Affirmative ...