Monday, July 19, 2010
ToDaZeD QOTD
misunderestimating Americans
Demonstrating again how she earned the title of Dumbest woman in the Senate, Bab’s “pay me” Boxer tossed this little ...item into the punchbowl:
Sen. Barbara Boxer has fired a shot across the bow of Carly Fiorina - in the hopes that her Republican rival’s ownership of a pair of yachts might sink her with voters.
Boxer has taken to comparing her years of “public service” to Fiorina’s choice “to become a CEO, lay off 30,000 workers, ship jobs overseas (and) have two yachts."
Considering she made most of her gazillions from her “service” at the public trough, that demonstrated quite a lot of faith in the compliant nature of the average CA voter. Granted, possibly not misplaced, but still...
These two quotes provide further enlightenment—I’ll send ya to Ace for the rest.
[VDH] In short, money, privilege, and status create in the cultural elite both a fear of mixing it up with others that might jeopardize position and placement, and yet guilt for that very sense of entitlement and exemption. All that, in turn, only heightens the shrill and sanctimonious rhetorical demands on less blessed others to prove their morality.
[Janet Daley] What is more startling is the growth in America of precisely the sort of political alignment which we have known for many years in Britain: an electoral alliance of the educated, self-consciously (or self-deceivingly, depending on your point of view) “enlightened” class with the poor and deprived. ... What is peculiar in American terms is that this sentiment is taking on precisely the pseudo-aristocratic tone of disdain for the aspiring, struggling middle class that is such a familiar part of the British scene.
They really think US dumbass redneck Americans ain’t a’gonna grasp that insult?
Noblesse Oblige—in order to work—requires respect for those to whom one is obliged. Otherwise it’s just ol’ fashioned, condescending patronage.
Yanno… like this:
What it does mean is that a sizable percentage of the Tea Party types were born into a segregated America, many of them in the South or in the new working-class suburbs of the North, and lived through the marches and riots that punctuated the cultural and political upheaval of the 1960s. Their racial attitudes, like their philosophies of governance, reflect their complicated journeys.
...not necessarily because a subset of these antigovernment ideologues are racist, per se, but in part because they are just plain old.
Drop Dead, you elitist gits. And Get The Hell Offa My Lawn!
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