Every four years the coastal elites sneer down their noses at half the country. And more often than not, wake up the day after the election wondering what the hell just happened:
If only the Democrats could contain their sense of entitlement to govern in a rational world, and their consequent distaste for wide swathes of the US electorate, they might gain the unshakeable grip on power they feel they deserve. Winning elections would certainly be easier – and Republicans would have to address themselves more seriously to economic insecurity. But the fathomless cultural complacency of the metropolitan liberal rules this out…
It will be hard. They will have to develop some regard for the values that the middle of the country expresses when it votes Republican. Religion. Unembarrassed flag-waving patriotism. Freedom to succeed or fail through one’s own efforts. Refusal to be pitied, bossed around or talked down to. And all those other laughable redneck notions that made the United States what it is.
H/T to Neo-Neocon, who has much more along these lines.
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Well, shucks! The thought of Murphy Brown lookin’ down on my religion and gun clinging values crushes my spirit.
I think I’ll jess go back to m’ doublewide and fry something.
“Superstition. Jingoism. Pigheadedness. Teeth-to-tattoo ratio lower than 1.” I know people who read the 2nd paragraph like that.
Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be from New England (read: ‘God’s Country”, despite some of the unsavory inhabitants).
Although, I must say, I never pictured McCain quite so country-fried and plebeian as they have him portrayed (how many houses do you own, again?). And Palin, whose husband went back to work making $92k/yr because the fam needed “a little more income”, bears little resemblance to the soccer moms I know.
I hate identity politics.