[Mamzelle]

We already know that Democrats are arrogant elitists. That's why they don't have the conservative base. Yet.

Republicans worked very hard the first couple of days after the election to alienate the conservatives who do their own housework. This is a Mrs. Joe Sixpack issue and goes completely under the radar. It's not just housework--it's the landscaping and construction. The Sixpacks are middle-class and are watching their wages being driven down, their neighborhoods changing overnight, their schools being turned into ESL waystations.

And they watch the golf-club Republicans and with what condescending affection they treat their servant class.

It's a rich man's privilege and a poor man's fight.

[woodbutcher]

I thought that I was pretty much grass roots, but I guess I am not.

Your entire post is a total mystery to me, beyond my understanding other than it contains uncontrollable obsessive class envy.

I have done a lot of things in my life. I had airplanes for 40 years. You always see a bigger, faster better equipped airplane on the ramp next to yours.

I have horses.

You see people with better horses that they paid more for, hauling them in bigger trailers with all of the comforts of home in the front half; pulled by a bigger newer truck with all of the fancy electronics on it.

And of course I live on my farm. It seems like everyone has a bigger farm with brand new fencing around it.

And houses. Don't talk about houses.

And I learned something from living with a wife, thankfully delivered from many years ago, that jealousy is poison. It will eat your guts out.

Accept the fact that there are people that are much wealthier and be glad for them. Encourage them. Wish that on your friends.

You will sleep better for it. It might even change your politics