Obama and his wife made a combined 6 figures income before he ran for the Senate. Like most arrogant elitest Leftist Mr Frank is a habitual liar. After all, he is only lying to us ignorant bitter peons.
Actually, there is nothing wrong about the "bitter" part. We all get bitter about something or other practically every week.
What is truly offensive is "CLINGING-gate".....
.... where Obama describes small town America as "clinging to religion" as in "the opiate of the masses".....
.... and "clinging to guns" as in "the fools actually believe in the Second Amendment" ....
.... and "clinging to antipathy toward people who aren't like them" as in "they are a bunch or xenophobic and racist bigots".
What part of that is a "stereotype"? That's an accurate description of almost every lib I've ever known in my entire life.
Speaking of "bitter"! Thomas Frank has real issues. This is a man who is intensely jealous of wealth -- whether earned by inventive conservatives (Sam Walton) or clever liberals (hedge fund managers).
His is a viewpoint cultivated by those to whom life has been "unfair". Didn't we all know somebody like this in high school?
“It is a stereotype you have heard many times before: Besotted with latte-fueled arrogance, the liberal looks down on average people, confident that he is a superior being. He scoffs at religion because he finds it to be a form of false consciousness. He believes in regulation because he thinks he knows better than the market.”
Some call that a stereotype — I call it a succient description.
And exactly what is the matter with this stereotype, Mr. Frank?
It seems to fit you, for example, to a tee.
Actually, I think he's dead on here.
The distrust and antagonism towards "the elite" among more ordinary Americans is not based on their financial success. It's based on their obvious contempt and disdain for us and what we believe in.
I'd much rather have had a drink with Sam Walton than with Mr. Frank, and I suspect Mr. Walton would feel the same way. I read Walton's biography, and I got no hint from it that he despised me. Mr. Frank can't complete a paragraph without showing his disdain.
This remarkable cultural history, originally published in 1997, is in many ways the Rosetta Stone of media bias; going back to the 50s to explain how and why the media-industrial complex behaves the way it does. His status as a major lefty only enhances its credibility, since he is so clearly biting the hand that feeds him.
He doesn't like my interpretation of his work, btw, but facts are facts and he did a fantastic job of collecting and presenting them. His own biases apparently came into play only after he realized he had given away the ranch.
Yeomanry?
Shall we have a study of the squires, footmen, and wastrels of the Philadelphia suburbs next? Not to mention, the Court Jesters?
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