Scholar Nebraskan Senator Ben Sasse illustrates Marx's observation : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class "

[ " After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sasse spoke in favor of expanding American military assistance to Ukraine, saying, 'If [Ukraine] can shoot it, we should ship it.' - From WIKI bio. [ " Sasse, who served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has criticized what he considered unnecessary roadblocks in supplying actionable intelligence to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saying, "There are a bunch of technicalities about intelligence in general versus targeting information in particular. And we should be giving the Ukrainians all the intelligence we can possibly get them as fast as possible. ]It's way too lawyerly. We have a very limited window here. " ] For all his bloated CLASSICAL Ivy League education Ben Sasse turns out to be a rather ordinary Republican conservative militarist philistine . Homer inspired ? If you can't rescue Helen again at ancient Troy you can rescue NATO " hero " war monger V. Zelensky in the not so " sovereign " Ukraine. Cannot GREAT LITERATURE inspire something something higher and finer than a decaying American Empire and " The Arrogance of Power " ? As Karl Marx said a long time ago : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class " .