A very interesting article. I want to re-read it later when I am not distracted.
“This condescension is part of a long liberal tradition that for generations has impoverished American debates”
The bastions of liberalism are found in the cities and on college campuses. Those who devote themselves to higher education (particularly the social sciences) develop their own psuedo-intellectual superiority complex, and the urbane urban folks typically look down on people living in rural areas as unsophisticated and uncultured.
Libtards like to think they are on the cutting edge, and they have a desire to belong and not be ostracized by their peers, so they jump on the bandwagon to hell of ideas that ultimately prove to be unsatisfactory.
Just say 'New Jersey' to a group of New Yorkers, even ones who just moved there, and they spontaneously break out into great peals of laughter. Is there another city where its inhabitants hold their neighbors in such contempt? I hear cracks about L.A. suburbs on sitcoms that I guess are west coast surrogates for the Garden State. Still not funny.