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Why liberal elites are so resentful of middle America
The New York Post ^ | January 11, 2017 | Salena Zito

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bluezones; elitists; hollywood; liberals; meryl; merylstreep; rural; streep
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One of the best articles on Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech.
1 posted on 01/12/2017 11:25:34 AM PST by EdnaMode
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Mainly because Conservatives tend to be NORMAL....
I’ve had much experience with mentally ill people in my life and they almost always lean Leftward....They are almost never happy and make it their life’s mission to share their misery.

The majority of celebrities truly are mentally ill, insecure a-holes who feel the need to rule over others to mask their fear.....There are of course exceptions.


2 posted on 01/12/2017 11:31:55 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: EdnaMode

Makes me think of Randy Travis’ great song: “Better Class of Losers”.


3 posted on 01/12/2017 11:33:22 AM PST by Elvina (crimethink - To even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc.)
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To: EdnaMode

New York and Hollywood could fall into the oceans and we would not miss them.
That’s what really ticks them off.


4 posted on 01/12/2017 11:33:31 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: EdnaMode

We’re totally debt free in a 2700sf house with a 1000sf woodshop, living in a small town in the Rocky Mountains.

Please explain to me why living in the Bay Area or LA (been there, done that) with those residents would be a better experience. You’ll have to use monosyllabic words; we’re not very smart.


5 posted on 01/12/2017 11:33:57 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: EdnaMode

Bookmark


6 posted on 01/12/2017 11:35:19 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: EdnaMode

Cliche’s aside, I disagree that people in ‘mid america’ are ‘less ambitious’ it’s just that there ambitions are focused elsewhere than that of the ‘elites.’

What is the slam on ‘mixed martial arts’ about? Was it targeted to a particular person or group or was it just a random thing. I don’t follow pop culture enough to know.


7 posted on 01/12/2017 11:36:15 AM PST by posterchild
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To: EdnaMode

The elites’ shallowness can’t navigate deep feeling and thought, let alone the products of hard work. Not even with million$ or billion$.


8 posted on 01/12/2017 11:36:52 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: EdnaMode

It is, very simply, the sin of “pride.” Our Jewish/Christian progenitors identified this many millennia ago. There isn’t really anything new to be said about what people like Meryl Streep are thinking.

Like all sin, Pride is ever-present and takes a thousand different forms, it appeals to our ego, and therefore easily comes to our fallen human nature.


9 posted on 01/12/2017 11:36:53 AM PST by PGR88
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To: EdnaMode

When people ‘hate’ the way the elites do, it is nothing more than a reflection of the absolute loathing they feel for themselves.

Which is why we see time after time the stark difference in the way a conservative ages vs the way a liberal ages.


10 posted on 01/12/2017 11:38:54 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Maverick68

“...mentally ill, insecure a-holes who feel the need to rule over others to mask their fear.”

That sums up in a nutshell every mass movement of the twentieth century: communism, naziism, environmentalism, & liberalism.

It also encompasses Islam, veganism, and militant homosexuality. Our way or the highway!


11 posted on 01/12/2017 11:39:29 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: EdnaMode
They don’t want to leave their hometowns to come to Silicon Valley or Washington, DC, or Manhattan.

You couldn't pay me enough to live in those places. And I've lived in Flint. At least Flint was real.


12 posted on 01/12/2017 11:43:00 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode
"Middle Americans" don't whine and pretend to be victims. It upsets the liberal agenda.

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13 posted on 01/12/2017 11:43:35 AM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: EdnaMode; Salena Zito

That was a great essay on the USA’s cultural divide Salena. Thanks.


14 posted on 01/12/2017 11:46:11 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
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To: EdnaMode
I have an aunt with more money than God... she always had more than anyone and lorded it over everyone. She was above all of us and looked down on anyone who didn't have what SHE had and worse, who didn't WANT or CARE ABOUT what she had. I guess we were not oooohing and ahhhing over her possessions and whatever, the way she wanted and we were not respectfully envious about her and her life.

Most of us just tolerated her and couldn't respect her for her conduct. Really, she was just pathetic.

In the end she lived and died alone.

Bottom line... these BS celebrities think we are not sufficiently envious and respectful of them .... period. In fact we only laugh at them.

15 posted on 01/12/2017 11:46:48 AM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: EdnaMode

Because we’re unwilling to march docilely into their ovens.


16 posted on 01/12/2017 11:55:11 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: posterchild

“”” What is the slam on ‘mixed martial arts’ about? Was it targeted to a particular person or group or was it just a random thing. I don’t follow pop culture enough to know.”””

My thoughts are they think, because they believe us to be less civilized than they are, we revel on the violence.

I personally don’t watch those fights. I think they are too violent. But I don’t think less of people who enjoy them.


17 posted on 01/12/2017 11:55:57 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: EdnaMode

to be even more precise maybe,
the leftist elites are jealous of how happy many Americans would be to just be left alone and allowed to live in their little 1500sqft houses in peace...without Obamacare, anti-Christian and anti_-Jewish propaganda krap coming out of the White House, constant violations of their constitututional rights (including 2d amendment but also 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, 12th, etc) and tons of new taxes and regulations


18 posted on 01/12/2017 11:56:17 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: lurk

Good question. Sometimes these big city coastal liberals talk of how they have great Thai restaurants, world class museums, farm to table restaurants, allegedly authentic Chinese restaurants, the performing arts, live theater, famous universities, coffee places which are superior to Starbucks for unknown reasons, progressive policies on zoning or public transportation, as reasons why their places are so superior to middle America.

I’m sure there are other reasons which they can conjure up too.


19 posted on 01/12/2017 11:59:50 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: EdnaMode
No,they're not *resentful*.Resentment suggests envy.THEY LOOK DOWN ON US.Just recalling statements and comments of the last few months it's been said that we're "deplorable" (Hillary),we're "rednecks" (BillyBob),we're supporters of the KKK (Obola) and we're illiterate and uneducated (just about every political commentator doing election night coverage).

We're inferior.We're inferior to *them*,we're inferior to every military age moslem male living here,we're inferior to every pervert who thinks that he/she can change gender,we're inferior to every welfare parasite,regardless of birthplace,in the country.

20 posted on 01/12/2017 12:00:40 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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