Posted on 05/21/2004 10:02:16 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
There exists a ''situation'' in society for which I feel totally and eminently qualified on which to comment. As a card carrying member and member in good standing of the Hoi Polloi [the common people], that group of arrogant bastards who think that just because they have a Bill of Rights and a Constitution they are as good as any other American, I can elucidate for the illuminati the mercurial nature and independent spirit of America’s common masses, thus helping them avoid the following perplexing social situation.
At a recent, Manhattan dinner party society’s elite upper crust were quite shocked and so rudely interrupted when a member of the hoi polloi, a member of the great unwashed masses, a common man,... a waiter...a ''su-bur-ba-nite,'' no less, had the unmitigated temerity to foist his unsolicited support of, President George W. Bush, on the delicate senses and sensibilities of the haut monde.
I only hope and pray that there existed sufficient number of fainting couches to accommodate the more delicate party members who may have succumbed to the vapors. Or should I say, ''fainting sofa'' or ''fainting divan?'' I mean no disrespect, and I sincerely hope that my clumsy attempt to illuminate my peoples propensity toward liberty for all does not further anguish the elite’s eminent sense of entitlement and superiority. It’s just that years of living under a Representative Republic have made all of us rabble, rusty in our appreciation of social classes and rendered our bowing and scraping abilities woefully inadequate. Ah, for the good old days when generations of my family lived under monarchism, totalitarianism, and communism in Hungary, and we hoi polloi knew our place, no questions about it. Those where the days, ah, but I digress.
Let me explain to you the earthy nuances of America’s hoi polloi, those cheeky little freedom loving, free-speaking, gun-toting, wealth-producing, fair-minded, sun-rising, moonlighting, hardworking, harder-living, rebuilt-transmission driving, cigarette-smoking, burger-eating, beer-drinking bastards, who boldly embrace this notion of freedom and liberty for all.
First of all, what you need to know, but I suspect you already partially understand, is that you, the elite, have very little influence over this massive herd of common noisy unpredictable rabble.
That has to be a scary and depressing thought. Oh, sure, we’ll read your books and articles, we’ll watch your movies, and watch you on TV and listen to your vacuous ideas on life, but it must be frustrating when you see what little sway you hold over the majority. In fact, any attempt to manipulate our opinions, morals, or values, no matter how subtle or covert, will be swiftly recognized, angrily met, and widely repudiated.
We don’t do it out of malice, it's just that we have evolved and moved apart in distinct and diametrically opposed ways. And quite frankly, we detest being manipulated, particularly by people whom we view as morally bankrupt, and obsessively self centered. No offense.
The elite, illuminati, Hollywood, and media types live a life that is buoyed up by wealth, status, and fame. Their position provides layers upon layers of protection that frees them from or at least delays the consequences of their actions. They can live a life above and removed from the day to day reality while they pontificate and pursue the elusive utopian dream for all of society.
On the surface their life appears delicate and refined. Ironically, this ease of life has given them a deep cynicism and coarseness towards life’s traditional values that reaches beyond their own personal prejudices and experiences. It culminates in a type of pseudo sophistication that mocks and feigns boredom of anything wholesomely American.
For the hoi polloi, life comes at them fast and hard. There are no trust funds to bail them out at every turn, no writing their own endings to life’s difficulties and no golden parachutists of tax funded pensions for their old age. Life is set low, close to the ground and they feel every bump. There are few, if any safety nets to life’s troubles. They live a series of fast cause-and-effect occurrences that teach hard won lessons about life, genuineness, and truth. Life is harsh, justice is swift, and consequences are always unavoidable.
They not only suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, but also the corollary of the elite's social engineering, the aftermath of Hollywood’s violent secular influence, and the injustice of media’s apathy towards social truth and fairness. This extra burden has bestowed upon them an inevitable toughness and cleverness. In the end, this coarseness of life has given them a refinement of social expectations, an appreciation of traditional moral values, sagacious hindsight, and uncommonly superior common sense.
It is with these attributes that the common man--the American hoi polloi--views life differently from the elite haut mode. Here is a scorecard of insights from the hoi polloi’s perspective on current issues. The elite should read them so they will never again be shocked when a common man speaks up in defense of President Bush.
How Common People Feel About...
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION and SADDAM--The media tries very hard to convince us that Saddam never had weapons of mass destruction. To the average hoi polloi, who can size up an individual’s character faster than an elite pinhead can order a latte, this charge is sheer and complete nonsense. If one is to believe that Saddam didn’t have WMD’s at the start of this war, then one has to believe that after the Israelis bombed Saddam’s nuclear facilities in 1981, the mass-murdering, megalomaniac dictator simply threw his hands up in the air, went away whistling a merry tune and said, ''Oh, well I gave it a good try.'' If you don’t believe that Saddam worked overtime to replace what the Israelis took out, you are too naive to be trusted with any sharp object. Information continues to surface about Sarin gas and many now believe that Libya’s WMD’s really belonged to Saddam. He had 14 months to move and hide those weapons.
WAR ON IRAQ--The illuminati really gets enraged about Iraq. They call the war on Iraq illegitimate and say there was no connection to Iraq and Al Qaida. Again, this is sheer and complete nonsense. This war was a bold and brave move on the part of President Bush who has literally saved thousands, maybe even millions of American lives. By taking out the rattlesnakes nest, he scattered the snakes and neutralized their venom.
Can you imagine how difficult it would have been for our soldiers to fight Al Qaida if the terrorists could slip in and out of Iraqi, while Sadddam supplied them with the stolen billions in ''Oil for Food'' money, while the terrorist training camps operated in the desert, and while his Sarin gases and other WMD were employed against us. America would have suffered many Sept. 11ths since that first terrible attack. President Bush had the courage to stand against a world of criticism, on our behalf, and he acted for the benefit and safety of the common American.
UNITED NATIONS--The elite love to champion the United Nations as a beacon of salvation. In fact the U.N. is composed of cowardly, corrupt, double dealing, bureaucratic knaves and despots who work against America at every turn. When Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats says they want the U.N. more involved in decisions on the war against terrorist that directly effect America’s safety, the media never reminds them that while America tried to build a pre war coalition, those very same U.N. members were taking money from Saddam to stop our pursuit of terror cells everywhere. This leaves the rabble to wonder, of the media and the Democrats, which ones are corrupt and which ones are idiots? Why would any American vote into the highest office a Democratic politician who would subjugate our country’s national security to a horribly corrupt American-hating organization?
THE 9/11 COMMISSION--A shameful Democratic partisan attempt to make Americans believe that President Bush, in office nine months, had more culpability for these attacks than President Clinton who was in office the eight years prior to the attack. No, hoi polloi individual worth his weight in salt is buying this truck load of jive. During Clinton’s watch the terrorists resided in our country and planned this attack for years. They even attended flight school and boldly declared that they wanted to learn to fly the plane, but not to land the plane. Americans also endured the first World Trade Center bombing, the USS Cole bombing, the Oklahoma bombing, and TWA 800, all on ''Clinton’s watch.'' Ironically, commission member Jamie Gorelick, the deputy attorney G=general under Clinton, had a huge conflict of interest in being on this panel. She, of all people, should have been in front of the panel, not on the panel. But the media always gives the Democratic hypocrites a pass in these types of conflicts.
SPANISH VOTE--After a terrorist strike on their train system thousands of Spanish people stood in the streets, in the rain and yelled, ''Assassins.'' Two days later they voted out of office the party that had put Spanish troops along side Americans fighting terrorist in Iraq and Afghanistan and they voted in the party that promised to pull Spanish troops out of Iraqi. It was a shameful and cowardly vote and a victory for the terrorist. After the vote the terrorists boldly told Spain to pull out of Afghanistan, too, or they would suffer another attack. Cowards die a thousand deaths. The Spanish bought themselves some time, and they may be safe for awhile, but they painted a big red bull’s eye on the heads of their children and grandchildren. Spain along with France will be the first two European countries that will one day fall to Islamic extremists rule.
ABU GHRAIB PRISON--The media and especially the Democratic puppeteers wanted to use these pictures to turn the America people against this war on terror and make us forget that we need it to save our lives. Sen. Zell Miller, said it best when he said, ''There are people more upset about a picture with a prisoner with women’s underwear on his head than the picture of the man, Nick Berg, butchered by terrorists, with no head.'' The American hoi polloi still holds a vision in their head of an American child, her spine bent backward from Sarin gas she was one of 21 children under sixteen years of age killed at Waco, Texas. This ''genuine torture'' was perpetrated on Americans by an American Federal Agency, carried out by American agents, ordered by an American attorney general, Janet Reno, in an American City, on American soil with American tax dollars--and on President Clinton’s watch. Where was the media’s and the Democrats' outrage over this horrendous event? So, don’t expect the common American to be outraged that some foreign terrorist killer gets his arrogant spirit broken with some sick sadomasochist photo.
Reno took responsibility for the raid on Waco, but because of those layers of protection no Democrats has ever suffer the consequences of their actions. Reno was never made to resign, she served a full second term, and the press never hounded her for an apology, like they did to President Bush for September 11.
DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA--Two days after Sen. Ted Kennedy stated that the war on terror was becoming President Bush’s Viet Nam, a radical terrorist cleric parroted back those exact words emboldening the terrorists to fight and within two weeks we had suffered the loss of 90 brave American volunteer soldiers. The sad realization of the American hoi polloi was that we were fighting not only foreign enemies, but also domestic ones. The Democrats and the media, want to defeat President Bush at any cost. Right now that cost is the lives of our brave soldiers, later it will be loss of American lives on American soil. The media do not even hide their agenda to defeat President Bush, some openly admit they want to defeat him, others just keep hammering the negative spin to all the news and gerrymandering the truth to achieve their goal.
The common man has always paid the price in power struggles throughout history. The elite jockey for position and power and the common man pays for the struggle with his life. It’s no different now, except that the common man has a fighting chance with President Bush who has proven himself to be the champion of the average American, and whose vision for America includes our safety and well being. That is why the hoi polloi remains loyal to Bush and will defend him to a room of full of elite snobs time and again.
The elite's hatred of Bush is palpable, intense, and ruinous--to themselves, not to the president, for it is a hatred that has consumed their hearts and minds. George Bernard Shaw said ''Hatred is the coward’s revenge for having been intimidated.''
Joan Marie Nagy is a freelance writer in Pennsylvania/ She receives e-mail at JoanMarie@Nagy.com.
The lady doesn't mince words, does she?
I thought it was Hoi Polloi
(Greek for common folk)
This was choice:
''There are people more upset about a picture with a prisoner with women’s underwear on his head than the picture of the man, Nick Berg, butchered by terrorists, with no head.
Good post, Lando.
cool - good find - thanks.
Super Duper Bump
Great writing. The kind I like - sharp, pointed, truthful *and* funny.
Too right!
Bump!
No she doesn't. And now I'm in love with her!
Bet she's married though-all the good ones are usually already took...
Thanks Lando, for discovering a real gem of an article.
Lando
Great one!
Thanks for the ping.
And?
This is what she wrote:
As a card carrying member and member in good standing of the Hoi Polloi [the common people]
See spelling in title of thread and my second post at #4.
Oh!!! I didn't notice that it was Hot Polloi. Mea culpa.
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