Confessions Of A Cultural Elitist
Ping demanded something interesting to read....so I post:
Confessions of a Cultural Elitist:
Win or Lose, Kerry Voters Are Smarter Than Bush Voters
As always, highlites:
* Firstly, living in the sticks doesn't make you more American. Rural, urban or suburban--they're irrelevant. San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro district is every bit as red, white and blue as the Texas panhandle. But if militant Christianist Republicans from inland backwaters believe that secular liberal Democrats from the big coastal cities look upon them with disdain, there's a reason. We do, and all the more so after this election.
* 72 percent who cast votes for George W. Bush, according to a University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and Knowledge Networks poll, believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or active WMD programs. 75 percent think that a Saddam-Al Qaeda link has been proven, and 20 percent say Saddam ordered 9/11. Of course, none of this was true.
* So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2.
Allan, you know you love reading my blog everyday.
Confessions of a Cultural Elitist:
Win or Lose, Kerry Voters Are Smarter Than Bush Voters
As always, highlites:
* Firstly, living in the sticks doesn't make you more American. Rural, urban or suburban--they're irrelevant. San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro district is every bit as red, white and blue as the Texas panhandle. But if militant Christianist Republicans from inland backwaters believe that secular liberal Democrats from the big coastal cities look upon them with disdain, there's a reason. We do, and all the more so after this election.
* 72 percent who cast votes for George W. Bush, according to a University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and Knowledge Networks poll, believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or active WMD programs. 75 percent think that a Saddam-Al Qaeda link has been proven, and 20 percent say Saddam ordered 9/11. Of course, none of this was true.
* So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2.
Allan, you know you love reading my blog everyday.
This particular Ted Rall column is a good example of the hypocrisy you often hear from people on the left. When it comes to people who live in foreign countries, they admonish us against making comparisons and judgements between our differing lifestyles. For example, they will tell you that the Chinese come from a culture where for hundreds of years they have eaten cats, worshipped dead ancestors, and therefore we should tolerate our differences because .. hey .. if we had been born in China, we too would be eating dogs and worshipping the tombstones of our great granddaddy.
Yet heaven forbids if you are an American and you decide to live a lifestyle that differs from that of Rall, get your news from different sources, have different tastes in music and movies, or have different political values. Because if you do, Rall will denounce you as "spectacularly stupid," put down your lifestyle as somehow not as sophisticated as(and by implication, inferior to) his, and boldly tell the world he has no respect for you.
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:57 PM
Right after the "spectacularly stupid" comment he cites this:
By any objective standard, you had to be spectacularly stupid to support Bush.
72 percent who cast votes for George W. Bush, according to a University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and Knowledge Networks poll, believe that Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction or active WMD programs. 75 percent think that a Saddam-Al Qaeda link has been proven, and 20 percent say Saddam ordered 9/11. Of course, none of this was true.
Kerry voters were less than half as idiotic: 26 percent of Democrats bought into Bush-Cheney's WMD lies, and 30 percent into Saddam-Al Qaeda.
Posted by
McCoy |
12:27 PM