[The G Man]

"9/11 Democrats"

[WorkingClassFilth]

Good post and useful info - I printed it for a few friends living in divided households (hand-wringing lefty wives).

[randog]

The times, they are a-changin'.

Good article. Have it bookmarked for reference.

[Tamzee]

Great article, thanks :-)

I'll be forwarding this one...

[wayoverontheright]

Kerry spent his high school years at St. Paul's prep school, with a rich aunt paying the bills.

Sounds like Dad didn't handle money very well.

Between heiresses, Kerry had to live on his own earnings, and the results were not pretty.

....and passed this propensity on to his son.

[APFel]

It has been a bad week for the Dems and it keeps getting worse. The author effectively skewers Kerry and the Democratic party like a shishkabob (minus the meat and potatoes).

Man oh man... Watching this campaign is like watching Mike Tyson punch a bobblehead doll.

APf

[GOPJ]

BINGO - Democrats are the party of the poor who feed off the state, and the super rich who benefit from keeping them dependent. It's a typical South American banana republic set up. Sick, but very beneficial to the elite's.

It is "becoming harder by the day to take the Democrats seriously as the party of the common man," writes columnist Daniel Henninger. "The party's primary sources of support have become trial lawyers and Wall Street financiers. It is becoming a party run by a new class of elites who make fast money--$25 million for 30 days work on a movie, millions (even billions) winning lawsuits against doctors...millions to do arithmetic for a business merger."

[newgeezer]

This is a duplicate. Search is our friend.

[marron]

The "party of the little guy" versus the "party of the fat cat" was always a false caricature.

Part of the confusion has always been built into the distortion in the word "liberal"; as almost everyone here understands modern "liberals" are not liberal. They are statists. As a party they are divided between people who expect government to manage their lives and people who expect to be the managers. The writer is surprised to find elitists drifting to the elitist party, but he shouldn't be, there couldn't be anything more natural.

American "conservatism" is another amalgam, but the heart of it is driven by the founding principles which were classicly liberal. Even Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism, was in the end a Whig, or classic liberal. The party of limited government and individual liberty is going to attract "yeomen", people who expect to do for themselves and expect from government only to be safe in their homes.

If you believe most people can't make it on their own, you will gravitate toward the Democratic Party. You will be at home there whether you see yourself as one of the elite who must care for the others, or one of the masses who demands to be cared for by his masters. If you are a doer and you respect the doers of this world, whether you are wealthy or haven't a dollar in your pocket, you will gravitate to the other party.

[brothers4thID]

"He presents many proofs for the conclusion--long promoted in these pages--that ordinary citizens possess forms of knowledge, intuition, and moral sense that make them better arbiters of critical national debates than any educated elite"

Yes, like FReepers working from home who combined their vast resources to out the deceptive elitists at CBS.

[Teacher317]

James Surowiecki of The New Yorker demonstrates that a cross-section of everyday people will generally prove better at solving knotty societal problems than any fraternity of experts... ordinary citizens possess forms of knowledge, intuition, and moral sense that make them better arbiters of critical national debates than any educated elite.

Buckhead and the Bloggers vs the MSM... guess who won that one.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Cold Heart]

BTTT

[happygrl]

The epitome of the elites is the activist judiciary.

[foreverfree]

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