Posted on 01/16/2008 8:05:12 AM PST by rellimpank
Faux populism and pseudo-identity politics.
In today’s leisured, affluent, and globalized world, few elites are old-fashioned populists or on the perilous barricades of the civil-rights movement. Those who say they are — mostly the Democratic candidates — show us almost daily the contradictions and absurdity of it all.
John Edwards rails against the corporate elite and its strangulation of the little guy. But nothing in Edwards’s own life (even aside from the haircuts, sub-prime mortgage investments, and “John’s room”) would lead one to think he could ever be serious. When he speaks to a University of California audience on poverty, he takes not $5,000 or even $10,000, but $55,000, from the public coffers.
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VDH BFLR.
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When a rich Dem starts talking about the “people”, that faceless, nameless, downtrodden group, they obviously dont know what they are talking about. When they talk about ‘workers’ it gets even funnier.
If you want to have fun, tell them the workers and the people like Country Music, hunting and fishing, drinking beer and SUVs.
The meltdown is hillarious!
Great tag line.
Let me know if you want in or out.
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This is rich = bump
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