Posted on 11/04/2004 11:18:32 AM PST by JerseyRepub
The superior, condescending attitude just drips off the page. Even they admit it and they seem to be proud of it. And they wonder why they lost and no one gets them!
An excerpt from the article...
Dr. Joseph, a bearded, broad-shouldered man with silken gray hair, was sharing coffee and cigarettes with his fellow dog walker, Roberta Kimmel Cohn, at an outdoor table outside the hole-in-the-wall Breadsoul Cafe near Lincoln Center. The site was almost a cliché corner of cosmopolitan Manhattan, with a newsstand next door selling French and Italian newspapers and, a bit farther down, the Lincoln Plaza theater showing foreign movies.
"I'm saddened by what I feel is the obtuseness and shortsightedness of a good part of the country - the heartland," Dr. Joseph said. "This kind of redneck, shoot-from-the-hip mentality and a very concrete interpretation of religion is prevalent in Bush country - in the heartland."
"New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what's going to injure masses of people is not good for us," he said.
His friend, Ms. Cohn, a native of Wisconsin who deals in art, contended that New Yorkers were not as fooled by Mr. Bush's statements as other Americans might be. "New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say."
"They're very 1950's," she said of Midwesterners. "When I go back there, I feel I'm in a time warp."
Dr. Joseph acknowledged that such attitudes could feed into the perception that New Yorkers are cultural elitists, but he didn't apologize for it.
"People who are more competitive and proficient at what they do tend to gravitate toward cities," he said.
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They just don't get it, still... they win no friends by calling a majority of the electorate "stupid" or "redneck".
LOL. I almost feel sorry for them. The hurt must be amazing.
New York, feed thyself.
About as sophisticated as my foot up their ass
Pennies to quarters both subscribe to the NY Times and believed the Times when they said the Swift Boat Vets were a bunch of liars.
And to think I have to deal with these people, day in and day out makes me want to move to Texas. Funny I was the only one on the street yesterday with a big smile on my face, everyone else was walking around like they just ate s#!t.
A table full of Army guys next to them started to cheer.
"New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say."
"They're very 1950's," she said of Midwesterners. "When I go back there, I feel I'm in a time warp."
The Blue Fringe is so desperately ignorant and uninformed about The Grateful Red.
Ungrateful bastards.
"New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what's going to injure masses of people is not good for us," he said.Hm: "level of consciousness" ... still talking the good-ol' dialectical Marx-talk, eh?
...Cultural elitists...Nonsense; it's plain old and ugly arrogance, nothing else.
Stop feeling so sorry for them and start tap dancing on their left-wing graves! It's time to celebrate doubly for the BS they pulled last elelction. Nothing is sweeter than watching the Liberal Elite having the rug pulled out from under them!
NEWSFLASH: It's the "red state" soldiers doing all the fighting abroad so you can sit on your ass sipping latte -- and not have to truckle to America's enemies like bin Laden.
Gee, what a surprise. Lefties still don't GET why most of the country doesn't acknowledge their obvious superiority.
And how do we know they're superior? Why, they TELL us so, constantly! It's sure not noticeable from anything they say - check out the DU forums where they're holding their Kool Aid drinking ceremonies. Most lefties just sound like crash helmet-wearing Tourette's victims.
Poor leftie freaks. They're still trying to figure out why all the red states rejected the "gift" of their self-proclaimed "brilliance"!
LMAO!
Wal-Mart thrives, Toys-r-Us files Bankruptcy...
Procter and Gamble runs rings around Colgate...
Heart transplants pioneered in Houston...
Other than theatre and fashion, what is NY on top of?
thats why there hero Screamin Dean failed..
and a dream ticket of Obama/Hilary will fail too.
Gee, little redneck me thought people who were competitive and proficient believed in capitalism, and those who were not able to compete got government jobs or went on the dole. And civil servants and welfare recipients vote almost exclusively for Democrats.
After reading that article, let them stay in their filthy "enlightened" digs and stay out of my time warp.
What's really funny is all those "sophisticates" have been seduced by Nietzche's moral relativism and nihilism. We, the "unwashed masses" still appreciate the founders of the country and the rock solid foundations they set forth in the Declaration of Independence. They ignore it at there own peril.
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