“New York Times columnists have yet to find themselves flattened by Chinese writers willing to write for a fraction of their per-word rate.”
True. The spoiled brats with protected jobs are clueless about the reality of 85% of Americans: replaced by cheap labor, stunned by high gas prices and sick of drugs in the high schools.
Trump and Palin both tapped into the real American experience of hurt.
Don’t give the Chinese ideas! (Heh, heh, heh, I’d like to see that, at least with Americanized Chinese... yellow rednecks, so to speak.)
And to trace back even further than the drugs... the reality of the deadly ennui that made room for them.