Clueless seems to be a philosophy among them these days...
They just plain can't get past the belief that religion is a mental illness to be cured by patient therapy. That people would actually base important decisions on religion seems insane to them.
Yeah, but I wouldn't want them any other way.
Sounds like Jimmuh Carter blaming America for its "crisis of confidence"
John Kerry's supporters need to seriously consider the possibility of asylums, whether here or abroad. n :)
More of that "What's the matter with Kansas" nonsense. As long as liberal elite buy into their neo-communist belief that all politics are about class warfare and that religion is just a tool that the borgeous use to opiate the masses, they are doomed to failure.
I have wanted to put this out for a while and this seems the perfect place. I, making significantly less than the median income, got money back in the tax cuts. (I think John Kerry's haircut costs more than my rent).
Obe thing that was eliminated in 2001 was considering graduate school benefits from employers as taxable income. Because of this, I was able to afford getting a master's degree, which, in turn allowed me to earn a higher income.
I am closer to the median income now, however, nowhere near the top two percent and I benfited GREATLY. I am sick of them saying only the rich benefited, because it just isn't true.
Another failure to recognize a clear fact - most people care more about their values than their value.
Hmmm. I agree. The people in the heartland are too principled and moral to allow their votes to bought by what these nitwits think are in our best economic interests.
Man, they just don't get it.
It's about PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY on every issue.
All the government programs in the world won't make people's individuals lives better.
We believe in people much more than they do. That's why we won.
"Dumb as a rock!"
Jerk don't get it, that's for sure.
They have built their lives around, and vested their emotions, in a set of ideas that are utterly and absolutely false. If they ever faced up to the truth, they would crumble into dust like the Nazis in the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Congressman Billybob
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"civil war our nation has just fought"......I'm sorry, but this guy is obviously an ignorant mental case.
I am in awe of how condescending this piece is.
Kristof never fails to amaze me. He lives in a different country than we do. He never will get it. Needs to move to France with the rest of his ilk.
The Dems have a major problem - they really do think the sun shines outta their butts, and that any who dare to disagree with them is at best a moron and more likely an emissary of whatever PC term they can concoct for Evil.
That kind of arrogance does not play well in the heartland.
"What we once thought - that people would vote in their economic self-interest - is not true, and we Democrats haven't figured out how to deal with that."
Is it possible that the Dems just do not realize that people have figured out that voting for Government handouts really isn't in our economic self-interest in the long run?..... that we realize we can do a better job of spending our own money than having to pay a bunch of civil service employees to dole whatever is leftover after their salaries have been paid back to us, in whatever way they think we ought to have it?
One problem is the yuppification of the Democratic Party. Thomas Frank, author of the best political book of the year, "What's the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America," says that Democratic leaders have been so eager to win over suburban professionals that they have lost touch with blue-collar America.
"There is a very upper-middle-class flavor to liberalism, and that's just bound to rub average people the wrong way," Mr. Frank said. He notes that Republicans have used "culturally powerful but content-free issues" to connect to ordinary voters.