Note: This article is the third part of a series of essays by the author to be published in the following weeks. Click here for the second part
While each member of the Ivy League might want to tout or debate their own aesthetic, each member is fundamentally the same. Every member methodically mushes the brain of the country’s brightest, making them palatable for both private and public consumption. The products of these institutions can be found anywhere elites’ shelter. Their alumni lists have their own Wikipedia pages. While all students and alumni of these prestigious institutions are fortuitous, there are differences amongst these lucky individuals, and not just between the Harvard vs. Yale man (which may have a clear winner soon). As discussed in Part 2, merely attending an Ivy member carries its own unique baggage, but to pretend that all individuals who attend these institutions can be whitewashed in 2020 would not be acceptable.
To find the true differences – the true classes among Ivy League students – one must need to take the composition of the league as a whole and then analyze it. Now to carry out this breakdown, let’s compare the composition of Ivy League students to what was just a couple of months ago the most-talked-about story in New Hampshire: the 2020 Democratic Primary. Each of the top six mainstays of the primary represents a certain type of student, a certain class within the Ivy League. And yes, the density of each candidate is different from University to University with Columbia and Brown having more Sanders and Cornell having more Klobuchars, but overall each candidate tracks with a certain class of students that can be found across every Ivy member. This essay will pair each class with their candidate and discuss a couple of specific conflicts between candidates. Does this mean that every student who is a Pete or a Warren voted for Pete or Warren? No, many Warrens voted for Bernie, many Bidens took a stand and voted for Weld, many Klobuchars were too busy to vote, and many Petes were guilted into voting for Warren or Bernie. So, let the class war begin!
Mayor Pete:
The first class of Ivy League students is the Mayor Pete demographic. In many ways, Pete represents the ideal of what many had hoped American higher education could be, embodying an ideal of meritocracy many hoped higher education represents. He is from a silly place like Indiana and successfully attended an Ivy League University. There, he does well enough to gain a job at one of the top corporate firms in the country, so he can eventually come back home and contribute to his hometown, serving in a community leadership role. This purely meritocratic view of education – where anyone, anywhere can rise above – is what in a perfect world the Ivy League would be. Petes can be found at every Ivy League and probably can be seen in most classrooms one visits. They usually come from a middle-class background and were prepared all their life to take off with college and beyond, so they could leap from the middle class to the upper or maybe even the elite. They are one of the classes that most likely have taken the standard Ivy League pathway discussed in Part 2, and more importantly, they are the class that still believes in this pathway the most. There is still some hope in their eyes that through their own hard work they might be able to get ahead, and if only we all just came together under one flag, we could all just get along. Most students have seen or know a Pete, many would even call him a friend, but only a few would say that they really like. In fact, most other students who are directly competing with him hate him. He represents all that the hate: white and male, believes in the system and the system says it believes in him, privileged and oppressed.
In many ways, Petes, just like their namesake, are both a success and a forthcoming tragedy. The standard-bearer of a past era, they followed the plan to every detail, and for now, they can experience both a fleeting personal and career success. But the tides are changing. Just as they rose through the hope of liberal equality and goodwill, they are now slowly being consumed through the new liberal’s diversity madness. Even within their own identity – maybe they themselves are a historical marginal group – just like their namesake, but to the standard-bearers of the new future, they represent a far more oppressive image. Petes are what sold higher education to the masses, and they are slowly over time being destroyed by that very same system. In most of higher education, one is taught to both explicitly and implicitly hate him. (Personally, when I brought their namesake up in one of my English classes in the winter, the entire class came derailed, with a 30-minute discussion debating if he was properly gay enough.) Like all great things, their failure will first be seen as a tragedy (the meritocratic system promised us more) and then as a farce (a gay man is not progressive enough).
Elizabeth Warren:
The next class of Ivy students is represented by one of the most successful Native Americans to ever run for president: Elizabeth Warren. Like the Petes, they are also from a silly place, like Oklahoma in this case, and worked to the top through hard work and grit (with maybe just a few instances of stolen valor affirmative action). Formerly, this class also represented some other vague sense of idealism, but sometime during their “development”, they saw the true light (their namesake specifically found it in 1996). They discover that the system is actually rigged. “For whom?” you might ask. “Someone, maybe the Koch brothers,” they reply. They have solutions to problems you didn’t even know existed. “So, the real way to stop racist messages written on doors in the dead of night is to restrict dorm access for everyone, or maybe we can be even more progressive and just restrict white people’s access.” They will use their chemistry textbook that is both color-coded and highlighted to save us all from the problems of modernity. If one steps on any college campus in 2020, one can just look to their right or their left and see a Warren. They have their feminist stickers, or in the lesser version of Warrens, they have their male feminist stickers, on their laptop. They were do-it-alls in high school, and they kept up their overachieving ways in college.
To some, Warrens might seem to have “made it” in the Ivy League, for fellow Warrens now hold most positions of administrative power in Universities, but if one informs them of this fact, they might self-flagellate themselves over their own inherent privilege and then inform you how there is still much progress to be made, after all, there is still some statue standing out there. They might feign how they represent the working class, like the people back home in Oklahoma, but give them some time and they will soon declare how most of the country holds backwards, bigoted thoughts. In truth, Warrens are the commanders of the professional-managerial class. They have weaseled their way out of university admin positions and into corporate HR ones, allowing them to set the paradigm for the coming Amazon utopia. Warrens are only one “revolution” to enacting compulsory anti-racist training for the working class, the same class that they pretend to represent while they fight the “system” for more “equitable” and “just” “solutions.” As 2020 progresses farther and farther along, Bernies do not seem to have “won the battle of ideas” and changed the left, but Warrens with their diversity and anti-racist madness have transcended and transformed modern political discourse, and frankly all discourse, beyond repair.
Pete vs. Warren:
The progressive primary conflict that got the most headlines and soundbites was Warren vs. Bernie, but the conflict that is most applicable to Ivy students is the cold war that was Pete vs. Warren. While many online were debating if snakes were sexist, academics were waging a war against Pete for Warren. A February article in The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicled this feud best. The hatred toward Pete by middling academics seems to have been some Freudian, internalized hatred of what life could have been for them. “I’m gonna let you in on a little secret: every college professor has had a student in class who acts like Pete Buttigieg… We secretly can’t stand that student… Every few quarters I have a Liz Warren student and she is a joy. She shows up to office hours with a color-coded binder and a list of starting questions.” This quote from an anonymous University of Washington professor best encapsulates this strange blood-feud. One might think that it is quite perverse for professors to be openly professing hate toward one “type” of student and favoritism toward another “type,” but this blatant partiality demonstrates how fundamentally the Warren/Pete divide is in academia.
The best description of Pete Buttigieg is that he is Ben Shapiro for liberals. Both being fairly young and highly educated, they both represent what the boomers of each respective political position want their young people to be. In other words, Pete is the boomer’s young liberal, and Petes represent the continuity of this demographic. Personally, I have friends who are personally center to center-right and openly supported Mayor Pete in the primary, and their logic was spot-on: “Obama was pretty ok, so let’s try it again, progress, as long as it’s incremental, feels good, and Pete possess no real threat to my career futures.” And if a candidate is attracting support from young center-right voters – voters who probably will probably support a Haley 2024 candidacy with pride – then that candidate has no position in the modern left or the modern academia. Petes are represented of a past America, where someone from a middle-class background could legitimately work their way up to institutional success, and this past idealism is why academics hate him so much, because this idealism both failed them and in turn, they have vindictively sought out to destroy anyone who still believes in it.
Warrens provide the antidote to the Pete dilemma. Because previously, academics touted how education would lift everyone up economically, they are now forced to switch their trumpet. With career prospects grim for most young people because of the overproduction of higher education, academics now have to reverse their tune. Instead of education lifting people up economically, education now lifts people up from bigotry. In a strange video that emerged out of the madness that was the summer “protests”, white protestors are openly making fun of black cops for being uneducated and not attending college. In due time, there will be state-enforced anti-diversity officers that require a PhD-level degree, finally codifying higher education as a necessity for anyone who does not wish to be a bigot. This reframing of academia as a great diversity project, instead of a fundamentally economic one, is the great switch that both Warren and her class have reckoned on the American consciousness. Pulling the classic neoliberal trick, Warrens insisted that the current problem isn’t that too many people are over-educated, but that too many people are under-educated. Those miniscule PhD hiring numbers are simply a product of bigotry and soon the “market” will adjust to a new demand of both highly educated “experts” and highly propagandized anti-racist officers.
At the end of the day, Warrens might want to flaunt progressive and borderline socialist rhetoric, but unlike Bernies, they are still filthy capitalist at the end of the day. After all, their namesake is a Reaganite who went haywire over the decades, and the same woke rhetoric she was touting twelve months ago has now been picked up by every major corporation in the country. If constantly bringing up black trans people was a real missile at the existential threat of capitalism, then McDonalds would not have adopted the same rhetoric. The great divide between Petes vs. Warren is the real-time transformation of capitalism within the academy. The older boomer version of working your way up is slowly running out of steam, so it is putting on a new mask of anti-racist and diversity where one can woke their way to the top. Soon, the Petes will go the way of the dinosaur where their idealism becomes propagandized into oblivion. At some points, all Petes will finally have to confront that even their hyper-liberal ideology is still bigoted, and they will need to pay due penance for their sins.
Boomer Capitalism vs. Woke Capitalism is slowly being played out through the proxy clash of Petes vs. Warrens, and as Warrens gain more and more ground (which has been accelerated through the events of the last couple months), Woke Capitalism, with its anti-racist and diversity shock troopers, will eventually ascend overtaking all of the Petes, stamping out any last remnants of the idealism of meritocracy.
Andrew Yang:
Up next is maybe the strangest candidate of the primary, but also a candidate that represents a distinct cohort of Ivy League students. Andrew Yang’s life path almost exactly matches the one laid out in Part 2 of this series. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Yang was fortunate enough to attend John Hopkin’s CTY as a kid, which prompted him to enroll in Philip Exeter Academy for high school. Eventually, Yang would attend Brown as an undergraduate and Columbia for Law School. Yang’s tale of growing up in an immigrant household and attending prestigious schools felt familiar for many Ivy students, leading him to attract quite a following at many of the Ivies.
As a class, Yangs are very similar to their namesake. Many might come from a first-gen immigrant background, and of all the classes, Yangs are the most likely to be a mathlete. Strongly leaning toward STEM is natural for this class, and the apparent ideological differences between students in the humanities seem silly and unimportant. The end goal for most Yangs is the tech industry, with this both aligning with their personal interests and also promising the greatest financial rewards. Yangs often tout the vast capability and potential for science and innovation to improve society for the better. They favor a problem-solving mindset that is great for their area of expertise but is sometimes quite lacking in other areas. Their unifying scientific mindset is both a blessing and a curse for them, causing them academic and career success but can also lead to uncomfortable situations, both personally and socially.
Yangs often fall into this class by default because many students who were born and grew up in the 2000s were constantly told that technology would be a secure route to their success, and additionally, they were taught that science and innovation would promise a secure future for everyone, meaning that a personal philosophy is naturally accompanied by this career outlook. This simple and somewhat reductionistic framework becomes an easy one for many students to adopt, and while this might be positive for their numbers, a certain level of unawareness accompanies it. The “defaultedness” of the Yang class can sometimes cause them to fall into a trap where they mistake their own personal outlook to be a universal one that everyone has also adopted, and in certain ways, they are right about the commonness of their mindset. Any student who has survived years of science classes and once in a while browsed Reddit is familiar with the composition of the class’s mindset, meaning that pretty much all students have some Yang in them; however, this commonality does not mean that all Ivy League students are Yangs, and the realization that not all students are also Yangs can sometimes be shocking or confusing for them. The dissonance from their perception and reality of the popularity of their class can be a major fault for the class, leading them to maintain a false sense of security for the inevitability of their mindset. Many Yangs often assume that the future will just be one long line of scientific progress and innovation and do not fully credit the criticism or critiques of their class’s mindset. This piece is not meant to be a bashing of the scientific mindset of the Yangs, but it must be noted that Yangs are one of the most confident classes in their own position and their inability to properly realize how the position they occupy is not universal will prevent them from justifying this proclaimed confidence.
Amy Klobuchar
The next and least noteworthy class are the Klobuchars. Just like their namesake, there is not a lot to discuss concerning them, mostly because one rarely has discussions with them. While the previous three classes all vary in popularity, they all at least make their presence identifiable, but Klobuchars do the exact opposite. Unless you enjoy cramming for Orgo tests in the libraries, you are not going to find yourself among them often. You can probably pass through your entire undergrad experience without identifying a single Klobuchar but that doesn’t mean they are not there. To some, this unidentifiable existence has a great appeal. Keeping one’s head down, getting good grades, aligning career prospects is a perfectly reasonable approach to college, and this is the one adopted by Klobuchars. Maybe they are grinding in chem or bio for med school or studying nightly for public policy classes to be a bureaucrat, either way drowning out the noise of political or ideological missions in favor of one’s own personal success is the bargain Klobuchars strike. Klobuchars most likely come from a middle to upper-middle-class background and the great hope for them in the Ivy League is to preserve this position or even enhance it going forward. Priority number one for Klobuchars is always securing future success, and in a tightening economy, the position of their parents or grandparents can sometimes be shaky for them to attain, which is why attaining an Ivy League education is so crucial for them and no distractions are allowed.
Of all the classes, Klobuchars are the least likely to discuss politics, and in doing so, a very compelling argument emerges as them being the most compelling class. While they might not be the most flashy class, fitting into a somewhat background role behind the more flashy, loud classes, Klobuchars are still a completely respectable class. Upon reflection, every student can identify a Klobuchar if they try, and their somewhat ubiquity and anonymity is again an attractive trait. Their namesake had the least noteworthy of all the candidacy. She made a somewhat respectable effort, attracting more votes than many thought she could at first. In some respects, her campaign was a throwback campaign. In the era where presidential candidates purposely try to elevate themselves to celebrity status, having a candidate that the average person has not heard of is respectable, especially considering she mustered together a respectable showing and still maintained a low profile.
For the non-political (and even for some political), the Klobuchars seem to be an ideal existence. In the months since the outcome of the primaries, the “grill pill” meme has gained popularity, and Klobuchars are the class who fulfill the Ivy Version of this meme. In short, this meme consists of a boomer who “just wanna grill for God’s Sake” and ignores the fights of mass politics, representing the ability for non-political individuals to avoid the anguish of political struggle and enjoy the simple things in life, like grilling. For the Ivies, maybe this meme should be updated “I just wanna study for God’s Sake”, and while this might be quite unattractive for some, this view does have its merits. Doing well at an Ivy League University can easily launch one into a lifetime of success, so ignoring politics or other ideological plights and prioritizing one’s academic and career prospects is the bargain of the Klobuchar class.
Bernie Sanders
Now for the most infamous of the Ivy classes, and while Sanders might be what some envision as the prototypical Ivy League student in 2020, this is an incorrect view. Yes, Sanders does attract an impressive body of students at some schools, but to say they are the most overall popular or effective is incorrect. As mentioned earlier, the real conflict that grips the hearts and minds of the Ivy League is that of Pete vs. Warren, and while Bernies do often position themselves to be the future of higher education and politics as a whole, this is not the reality of the situation on Ivy League Campuses. It’s also important to know that a student that votes for Bernie does not equate to being in the Bernie class. Bernie’s political language and message, with his calls for cancelation of student debt among other things, has become almost a default position for many Ivy Students today, but this political appeal does not directly equate to the class he is named after. As mentioned earlier, lots of other classes, like Petes or Warrens or Yangs, most likely voted for Bernie, and being a Bernie supporter is not the same as being a Bernie in this context.
The class is relatively diverse, and there is not one concrete path for all Bernies. Unlike how most other classes come from a similar background and location, Bernies are united not by where they came from but where they are going. Whether it is Brooklyn or Portland or another former hipster gathering point, all Bernies are trying to end up in one of the more fashionable and hip places for young people. This class enjoys reading newspapers and magazines, and all of them harbor a desire to write for a New Yorker or Atlantic or other prestigious publication, being fluent in the cultural commentary world of book reviews and other “intellectual” discourse. Ironically, Bernies might be the class that needs an Ivy League degree most for their career goals. Bernies’ end goals are often predicated around securing a position at a media company or another job that allows them to utilize their familiarity with the current cultural leanings, and in the new “knowledge economy” of today, these jobs are some of the most ruthless ones that any Ivy graduate might seek. With low pay and inconsistent job security, many who whole hardily embrace this path will be met with the same prospects of starving artists and actors, causing them to lean on their prestigious degrees even more than other classes. In this ironic twist, Bernies, who arguable harbor the most animosity towards the elite and prestigious names of the Ivies, lean on and utilize it more than any other, and while they might lambast and criticize “privilege” all day long, they will always be the first to use the connections and opportunities it provides when trying to gain the cutthroat positions they yearn for.
On-campus, Bernies can be found lurking around in the back of most classrooms, always ready to attack if they see an opportunity in a discussion. They are fluent in the common discourse of both politics and culture, allowing for some claim of authority on discussions that tend toward an intellectual bent. Extreme confidence in their own authority and ideas is expected from this class, and while they are known to dabble in some substances (leaning toward the more exotic variety than other students), most are able to avoid being full-on bums. From an outside perspective, this class can be seen to carry the trump cards in many situations; by being intellectually “dangerous” and on the cutting edges of both politics and culture, this class is what some might seem as the pinnacle of all the Ivy classes. But for all of their appeal, the main tension for this class is when will all of this potential manifest. For all their intellectual and cultural credibility, they often seem to have a back seat on campus. The Warrens are all assuming the leadership and administration positions, and the Petes and Yangs and even the Klobuchars are the ones who are lining up their personal career success.
Claiming some authority on culture ongoings is great and all, but can it really compete with the administration edicts that Warrens pass down. While the Bernies, with their radical ideas and cultural fluency, are often the ones painted as the pinnacle of Ivy production in recent years, the Warrens, with their regimented and systematic takeover of institutions, are the real recent contenders for the Ivy horse race. At the end of the day, Bernies are destroyed when it comes to the question of efficacy, and while they might have lofty ideas and authoritative claims, they struggle mightily implementing these ideas. Maybe it’s the drugs or maybe it’s that their utopian notions are simply impossible, but at the end of the day, they are ineffective in achieving their own goals. Their image of false authority does them no help. Many American’s now actively identify the Ivy Brand with the Bernie class, meaning that they bear the brunt and ridicule of the nation while the Warrens and Bidens are the ones who are actually implementing their own goals.
Just like their namesake, this class is a tragedy in many ways. While Bernies might seem like they are riding a wave into the future, they are actually slowly withering away from an inability to fulfill the position that so many outsiders thought the class held. By being beaten from the outside by those who thought Bernies held more authority than they do and scourged from the inside by the Warrens and Bidens and then combined with their own personal contradictions and inability, Bernies are slowly being narrowed out from the delicate positions they hold. The class will continue on, with the Ivy’s being very much reliant on the cultural positions that the class affords (what’s the Ivy League without Vampire Weekend?), but the huge success and growth that this class was poised for in the 2010s seems to be waning. And just like their namesake, the race almost feels like it was rigged from the start.
Joe Biden
The winning class was saved for last. Named after the candidate who has stumbled out of the retirement home and into the (possibly) oval office, this class is truly the oddity that completes all the Ivies. Dwelling in frat basements and sleeping through intro econ and business classes, Bidens will never be seen in a library or in most other academic contexts. Some will debate that basic literacy precludes one from being a part of this exclusive class, but this judgment is a little too harsh. At some points, this class seems to sleep through their four years, not prizing or fighting for gain or advancement like the other class, but just enjoying the ride while it lasts. They are likely to have fits of either random passion for a bygone era or dreams of a “better” future. These momentary fantasies might be frequent but rarely have any longevity. For most, Bidens stumble into the Ivies, from either divine luck or more likely just family connections, and then stumble right out of the League into an even more elite and privileged position. Most Bidens come from high elite backgrounds and most Bidens will preserve this status just by attending the institutions. Bidens’ elite status do not justify the elite status of the Ivies, but the elite status of the Ivies serves to justify and legitimize the elite status of the Bidens.
Maybe the class that receives the most derision and jokes from inside the institution, Bidens are also the class that the institution serves and protects most of all. Bidens often seem aloof and foolish, lacking in agency and motivation, but just as their namesake, this foolishness serves them well, allowing them to inherit, profit, and win off of a system built long before them. Bidens stumble into this competition, with many forgetting their even present or a threat of all, and during the race, the other candidates viciously attack and destroy one another, leaving Bidens there to scoop out the prize at the end and be the ultimate winner of all the division.
Bidens are a strange class from the outset. This class is the stereotype of privilege, and when actors bash privilege and elitism, this class is prototypical of what these actors feign to bash. But for all this supposed backlash, this class is as strong as forever. No time before the 2010s was “thinking about privilege” such a frequent talking about, but even though this brigade of attacks has hit the Ivies hard as anyone else, Bidens have not been hit nearly as hard as the Petes, Bernies, or even Yangs. Their inactivity and careless nature is often mistaken for a lack of authority or position as a class, but this lackadaisical quality is just the one that sets it apart. By simply ignoring the hot-button talking points and toxic campus discourse, Bidens have preserved themselves as a class. How can you be responsible for systematic racism or injustice when you aren’t even responsible enough to go to a mid-level econ class?
This paradox might seem silly at first, how can a class that seems idiotic – a picture of a drooling twenty-year-old frat bro is not that dissimilar to reality – but actually be the class that is inheriting all the fruits of Ivy League. Now, this criticism should not be taken as some grand conspiracy bashing elites as idiotic money-grubbers, but is more a critique of the inability to properly deal with this class. For the past few years and decades, bashing the “1 percent” and “privilege” has been quite in vogue, but for all this outrage and screaming, the .01 percent and the actual privileged have only gained in their own position. Bidens have been relatively immune to all this discourse because they do not have to engage in it. They can simply pass out in a frat basement, booting bags of Keystone, while the Petes and Bernies and Yangs are disabled and destroyed by questions and discussions of the toxicity of their own privilege. Many of the conflicts and proxy conflicts of the other classes serve to cover and hide the inadequacies of the Bidens, providing the perfect opportunity for Bidens, just like the real Biden, to sweep in and be the true winners of all the Ivy Classes.
This analysis might seem completely ridiculous, maybe border lining on the conspiratorial or “problematic” side, and maybe it is, but at the end of the day, the purpose of the Ivy League has always and will always be to produce elites. The reason why the Ivy League maintains its elite position is because it continues to push out and produce elites, and Bidens are the elites that the Ivy League produces. All this quibble and complaining from the other classes only strengthened the Biden’s perception, because it allows the League to feign a level of self-awareness and self-criticism, projecting to the rest of the nation – the nation that the Ivy League is trying to rule – that the elites are produced by a system that is justified. The other classes serve to justify this system, each projecting a firm message that strengthens the position of the Ivy League. The Petes serve to project a belief in meritocracy; the Warrens serve to project a belief in social and economic “justice”; the Yangs serve to project a belief in science, technology, and innovation; the Klobuchars serve to project a belief in hard work and determinism; and finally, the Bernies serve to project a cultural superiority and authority. Together all these classes strengthen and justify the elite position of the Ivy League, arguing for the necessity and importance of the institution for the wider society. This whole argument is then taken up by the Bidens to prove their own legitimacy. “Look at us we should be elites because we are credentialed by elite institutions.”
The function of the Ivy League is the same as the 2020 Democratic Primary. The entire discourse surrounding both institutions, with their high minded discussion of racial, social, and economic “justice”, only served to legitimize the process, so that the eventual winner of the process, the Bidens in both cases, could proclaim a level of legitimacy, giving them the proper authority and justification for maintaining there fundamentally elite project. Through mystifying that the Ivies are simply producing the Warrens, Petes, Yangs, Klobuchars, and Bernies, the League tries to feign a certain level of ignorance or sometimes a false self-awareness toward the project of maintaining the elite position, but at the end of the day, the project is mutual, with Ivies legitimize Bidens and Bidens providing the funds and donations to maintain these multi-billion dollar institutions.
Maybe one day the Warrens will finally gain a grasp of the Ivies and hunt out the actual privileged actors in their institution, but for now, the Bidens are the grand inheritor of the League. Just like their namesake, they sleep through the process, protecting their innocence, so they can step in and gain the authority of the whole institution at the last second. The Ivy League being an elite project is no secret, and the League maintaining an elite position and authority is still the best for everyone in it, even if some actors wish to deride or lambast a supposed “elite” or “privileged” class. So the ultimate winners of the Ivy Class War being the current elites, trying to maintain and legitimize their own position, should be no shock. Most of the Marxist or Stalinist ideas that the Ivy League pumps out into the national discourse has the actual effect of mystifying and protecting their own project of elite legitimization, so while the Ivies might seem to come across as radical institutions bent on destroying the status quo order of the nation in order to lift and raise the least powerful up, reality is the exact opposite. In 2020, the Ivies main purpose – as it always has been – is to preserve the status quo and the existing elite power structure and destroy those who try to challenge or question the authority of those same elites who rule and govern.
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