Posted on 12/11/2016 12:18:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Though it’s not clear whether the Democratic party will produce a post-presidential-election “autopsy report” like Republicans did in early 2013, there has been a lot of self-scrutiny among liberals since Hillary Clinton’s surprise loss. One example is a Friday post by Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum, written in response to a fellow liberal’s cluelessness.
After New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed to be unaware that “affluent liberals…sneer at the Joe Sixpacks,” an amazed Drum declared, “I'm not here to get into a fight with Krugman, but come on. Sure, the right-wing media fans the flames of this stuff, but is there really any question that liberal city folks tend to sneer at rural working-class folks? I'm not even talking about stuff like abortion and guns and gay marriage, where we disagree over major points of policy. I'm talking about lifestyle…Working-class folks like fast food.”
(Krugman had noted that his “neighbors on the Upper West Side” of Manhattan “don’t eat much fast food, because they believe it’s unhealthy and they’re watching their weight.” For the record, Drum said he likes fast food, “except for McDonald's.” Not even the fries, Kevin?)
Drum went on: “We sneer at their holy-roller megachurches. (But not at black churches; never that.) We sneer at their favorite TV shows. We sneer at their reading habits. We sneer at their guns…We sneer at their supermarket tabloids. We sneer at their music. We sneer at their leisure activities. We sneer at their blunt patriotism…Maybe you personally don't do it—though judging from the comments here, a lot of you do—but you hardly need to be an anthropologist to recognize that this kind of sneering shows up on TV, in newspapers, on Twitter, in books, on Facebook, and in private conversations all the time.”
The contempt, Drum recognized, is mutual but asymmetrical:
They also sneer at us. Fair enough. But as all good liberals know, there's a big difference between a powerful group sneering at a vulnerable group, and vice versa. The former is a far bigger problem. And we educated city folks are, on average, far richer and more powerful than ruralish working-class folks. Our sneering has a power component that theirs doesn't. I confess that it's fun, and I enjoy my share of sneering in private, but I also accept that this attitude has political costs.
Mother Jones sneers at rural diesel mechanic shops then. I beg MJ folks to come sneer at us in the shop and in person and we’ll see how that turns out. We can be mean. Real mean.
Well, he's a blogger.. so...
Most of the big city libs I have known could not change a flat tire.
You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . .
Oingo Boingo - Capitalism
Big city libs wouldn’t know what it’s like getting their hands dirty. Their Prius gets a flat and they don’t even know how to mount a spare.
They sneer at anyone who can practice a trade, craft or profession that provides goods and services that folks will willingly purchase with their own money and that will enrich their lives.
That is because they are in the business of controlling and intermediating all human transactions and despise anyone who does not need a government created or mandated job.
There’s a leftist I talk to at one of my stores. He says terrible things about Southerners. I’d like him to meet up with a few Southerners one day, and accidentally say what he says.
Vindication is priceless.
We have said it all along because we see it and experience it.
The so-called ‘party of the working class’ - democrat socialist - actually hates the working class.
Why were none of us surprised at the leaked memos of the dnc regarding this kind of thing in the context of “little people”. It was just confirmation of what we have always known.
I love the continuing vindication.
Whoa. And all this time I thought the only way to squeeze the truth out of a Fake News site like Mother Jones was if the universe imploded.
I had a good friend of mine (big city lib) who said CA and NY should pick the President...the rest of the country really doesn’t matter.
A retired college professor...
Urban Utopias help to protect their peeps from the Environment.
Basically admitting that being a lying, huge conceited prick to lots of others yields negative consequences.
“TENDS TO SNEER”
That is all they do—all day—every day—every week—every year.
However, I am willing to think that IF the working class AMERICAN did a pre-planned one day strike across the country, the Liberals would find out they have no skills to cope.
Do they even know what a ‘spare’ is?
Oh my dear furry little liberals, sadly, don't you know yet? You are no longer the powerful group, and even when you were, it was in name only.
You have all the power of a thunderstorm ... a painting of one, and a bad one at that.
You should only know what they think of the military! Don’t expect to find them lined up at the recruiting station. If we were attacked tomorrow and an enemy was on our shores, they’d be the first to run north causing a traffic jam or leaving their cars abandoned on the highway just to get out of the USA. They wouldn’t threaten to, like they do election time, they would really RUN!
What? New York City liberals look down their noses at Nebraska farmers and midwest small town “hicks”.
Oh, say it aint so.
Big city commie libs hapve felt superior tinthe rural backbone of America since long before WW2. It is just systematically more aggressive now.
I dare those people to come seer at me.I’ll put the dogs on them,for starters.
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