[quidnunc]

FYI

[DSBull]

The actual real divide is with the women on the left and those on the right..

The right has multitude of women who are both brilliant and beautiful....

The left has....well...They have Helen Thomas, Billary, Cher, and the goodlooking ones are as dumb as stumps...any actress can be used as an example...

[shezza]

In contrast, the universities, the arts, the major influential media and Hollywood are predominately liberal -- and furious. They bring an enormous amount of capital, talent, education and cultural influence into the political fray -- but continue to lose real political power. The talented elite plays the same role to the rest of America as the Europeans do to the United States -- venting and seething because the supposedly less sophisticated, but far more powerful, average Joes don't embrace their visions of utopia.

As usual, VDH is spot-on with his analysis. Average Joes ROCK!

[danneskjold]

Average Joe Bump...

[mindburglar]

He is spot on with his opinion of the divide. The real fact of the matter is that most of the average Joes are far smarter than the elites. They fail to realize this, that is why they are called elitists. Which is why they don't understand the simple irony of the term elitist.

[Syco]

In the early nineties I took two classes from VDH while he was a visiting professor at Stanford. At the time I thought that he was probably a raging liberal (he was and still is a registered Democrat - though he may have become an independent in recent months). He certainly looked the part of a liberal college professor. Unkempt hair and clothes, wire rimmed glasses that were constantly sliding down his nose. But he always seemed fair and gave voice to both sides of any political argument. He was and remains my favorite professor from my college days.

Imagine my delight when I discovered him shortly after 9-11 on NRO. His insights are remarkable and, as a Democrat he has the ability to hammer away at the liberal positions like few of us on the Right. I love this guy! Thanks for the post.

[RAY]

There are many elitist thinkers and big talkers, "the chattering class", and then there are men of action, and they tend to not be the same.

We need continued decisive leadership that adapts well to the battle field(s)!

[jcon40]

"In the last three decades, there has been a steady evolution from liberal to moderately conservative politics among a majority of the voters,"

This is the part I like !!!!

I've got 5 kids who like it too !!!!

And, my wife had been a liberal school teacher for years. During Clintons Reign she flip flopped (a good flip flop)

She contends that about 40% of the teachers in her school are now not ashamed to announce they are Conservatives !! and we live in California.

She prints VDH articles and takes them to her school.

Oh yes, the times are changing.

[Christian4Bush]

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[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out

[Billthedrill]

Elites from college professors and George Soros to Bruce Springsteen and Garrison Keillor believe that their underappreciated political insight is a natural byproduct of their own proven artistic genius, education, talent or capital.

Or notoriety. Or simply that being an a-hole with a microphone obligates them to fart into it.

[spodefly]

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