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Topic Started: Sep 8 2008, 05:38 AM (304 Views)
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Democrats speak up for the less prosperous; they have well-intentioned policies to help them; they are disturbed by inequality, and want to do something about it. Their concern is real and admirable. The trouble is, they lack respect for the objects of their solicitude. Their sympathy comes mixed with disdain, and even contempt.

Democrats regard their policies as self-evidently in the interests of the US working and middle classes. Yet those wide segments of US society keep helping to elect Republican presidents. How is one to account for this? Are those people idiots? Frankly, yes – or so many liberals are driven to conclude. Either that or bigots, clinging to guns, God and white supremacy; or else pathetic dupes, ever at the disposal of Republican strategists. If they only had the brains to vote in their interests, Democrats think, the party would never be out of power. But again and again, the Republicans tell their lies, and those stupid damned voters buy it.

It is an attitude that a good part of the US media share. The country has conservative media (Fox News, talk radio) as well as liberal media (most of the rest). Curiously, whereas the conservative media know they are conservative, much of the liberal media believe themselves to be neutral.

Their constant support for Democratic views has nothing to do with bias, in their minds, but reflects the fact that Democrats just happen to be right about everything. The result is the same: for much of the media, the fact that Republicans keep winning can only be due to the backwardness of much of the country.

Because it was so unexpected, Sarah Palin’s nomination for the vice-presidency jolted these attitudes to the surface. Ms Palin is a small-town American. It is said that she has only recently acquired a passport. Her husband is a fisherman and production worker. She represents a great slice of the country that the Democrats say they care about – yet her selection induced an apoplectic fit.

For days, the derision poured down from Democratic party talking heads and much of the media too. The idea that “this woman” might be vice-president or even president was literally incomprehensible. The popular liberal comedian Bill Maher, whose act is an endless sneer at the Republican party, noted that John McCain’s case for the presidency was that only he was capable of standing between the US and its enemies, but that should he die he had chosen “this stewardess” to take over. This joke was not – or not only – a complaint about lack of experience. It was also an expression of class disgust. I give Mr Maher credit for daring to say what many Democrats would only insinuate.
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For days, the derision poured down from Democratic party talking heads and much of the media too. The idea that “this woman” might be vice-president or even president was literally incomprehensible. The popular liberal comedian Bill Maher, whose act is an endless sneer at the Republican party, noted that John McCain’s case for the presidency was that only he was capable of standing between the US and its enemies, but that should he die he had chosen “this stewardess” to take over. This joke was not – or not only – a complaint about lack of experience. It was also an expression of class disgust. I give Mr Maher credit for daring to say what many Democrats would only insinuate.

That is exactly right. Furthermore, Maher has expressed shock, SHOCK that Palin has FIVE CHILDREN. "Don't they know when to pull out?" he asks his howling audience with disdain in his voice.

I have a number of friends who have four or more children, and it is quite plain to me that people like Maher and Gail Collins from the New York Times consider these people to be freaks, aliens from another solar system. You have to understand that the Mahers of the world -- and they are VERY influential in the Democratic Party -- do not simply hold people like Sarah Palin in disdain.

No, they truly believe that people like this have no right to live. They have no right to take up space, and certainly no right to emit carbon dioxide. If they have any value, it is to serve the Mahers of the world -- and then to shut up and disappear.

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And they certainly don't think that baby Trig should ever have been born.
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When my husband and his classmates came back from Viet Nam...the Left was not content with damning the WAr, they had to smear these guys who served too. They had to make these guys "less" than they were.

I always had a sneaking suspision it was because these guys had the courage to honor their commitment, even in the face of their own fears...and that made the Left feel bad..about themselves.

So they tried to demean their service too.

Some of hose that would never take on the burden of a disabled baby... don't find it sufficent that they have the legal right to abort that baby..they want to assert some moral superiority over those who would assume that burden.

They don't just want the right...they want to BE right. They want it all.
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Sep 8 2008, 06:48 AM
When my husband and his classmates came back from Viet Nam...the Left was not content with damning the WAr, they had to smear these guys who served too. They had to make these guys "less" than they were.

I always had a sneaking suspision it was because these guys had the courage to honor their commitment, even in the face of their own fears...and that made the Left feel bad..about themselves.

So they tried to demean their service too.

Some of hose that would never take on the burden of a disabled baby... don't find it sufficent that they have the legal right to abort that baby..they want to assert some moral superiority over those who would assume that burden.

They don't just want the right...they want to BE right. They want it all.
Joan: You might be giving them more credit than they deserve. These people (or at least many of them) appear to think of themselves as elite - in some sense or other. Yet most of them are not even a little bit smart. Obama is an extreme example: the stream of stupidities he emits COULD NOT be coming from an intelligent man. For various reasons (Harvard, etc.), he is confused about his place in the world - which by itself indicates that he is not too bright. Hillary is another example - but a less extreme one. I think they are mostly stupid and conformist (and vile); their elitism is a misunderstanding.

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Jezebelle

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Sep 8 2008, 07:52 AM
joan foster
Sep 8 2008, 06:48 AM
When my husband and his classmates came back from Viet Nam...the Left was not content with damning the WAr, they had to smear these guys who served too. They had to make these guys "less" than they were.

I always had a sneaking suspision it was because these guys had the courage to honor their commitment, even in the face of their own fears...and that made the Left feel bad..about themselves.

So they tried to demean their service too.

Some of hose that would never take on the burden of a disabled baby... don't find it sufficent that they have the legal right to abort that baby..they want to assert some moral superiority over those who would assume that burden.

They don't just want the right...they want to BE right. They want it all.
Joan: You might be giving them more credit than they deserve. These people (or at least many of them) appear to think of themselves as elite - in some sense or other. Yet most of them are not even a little bit smart. Obama is an extreme example: the stream of stupidities he emits COULD NOT be coming from an intelligent man. For various reasons (Harvard, etc.), he is confused about his place in the world - which by itself indicates that he is not too bright. Hillary is another example - but a less extreme one. I think they are mostly stupid and conformist (and vile); their elitism is a misunderstanding.

......in the same sense that cancer is a misunderstanding between cells.
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