Posted on 01/12/2017 11:25:34 AM PST by EdnaMode
This week we saw a few perfect examples of why liberal coastal elites are so resentful of middle America: It’s because the supposed rubes and rednecks aren’t more resentful of the elites — or, more specifically, the elites’ “success.”
They don’t aspire to be like their self-appointed betters.
Some Americans just don’t need much; they don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to have a 1,500-square-foot house, watch football and go to church on Sunday. They don’t want to leave their hometowns to come to Silicon Valley or Washington, DC, or Manhattan. They place great value on community and living near family and carrying out family traditions.
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
What does the pursuit of happiness mean? It means the purpose of our lives is up to us to determine, not some ruling class. Tyranny means a ruling class forcing the rest of us to pursue their happiness, not our own.
They hate us because we merrily go along pursuing our own happiness.
How many Liberal heads would explode if they knew Donald’s uncle was an MIT scientist and Reagan awarded him the National Medal of Science.
OK, maybe the Richmond/Sunset areas of SF have more authentic Chinese restaurants... :)
The main reason I see for this is that excessive taxation and regulation in California drives out virtually everything interesting, leaving only the mega-corporate and homogenized offerings behind. The exact opposite of what liberals claim is so great about the area.
Sorry, don't see where the benefits out way the disadvantages of never knowing your neighbors, never attending a performance where you actually know everybody, never see the stars at night or walk in grass and wear something other then black.
Excellent post, Dick Bachert.
Precisely right. It is envy, not hatred. They have everything and nothing. You put it very well.
Glad u like. Yes. Envy. Tragic they can’t find some happiness for themselves with all their wealth and worldly advantages. But this is a very old story it’s been known and observed for millennia - see Bible ( or Greek philosophy or Buddha dharma or...).
“...a reporter who saw Trump’s victory coming from miles away. For several months, for outlets ranging from the liberal Atlantic to the red-blooded New York Post, Zito churned out pieces about the supposedly elusive Trump voters that the polls seem to have missed. She wrote that these people take Trump “seriously, not literally.” She wrote a piece about the many Trump signs she was seeing in Pennsylvania and Ohio. She wrote about the time Trump “won over a bar” full of undecideds and Democrats.”
A lot of people get hit on the head with apples - few discover gravity. Yeah, Zito had a leg up having lived in the area but the stuff she figured out? Pure genius.
Thank you!
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