A Note to the Cultural Elite From a "Spectacularly Stupid" Bush Voter.
So, now the democrats are bitter. That's an understatement. Some are just plain sore losers. Nothing made that more clear to me than Ted Rall's column, "Confessions of a Cultural Elitist". http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/ I would highly suggest reading it, if only to see that the democrats have a lot of work to do if they expect to reach out to the millions of people it takes to win an election.
First, let me clarify that I am registered to no party, because I can not, in good conscience, allign myself with certain aspects of the big two's platforms. However, I did vote for George Bush. It wasn't because I really believed Sadaam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or that he ordered the 9/11 attacks. It was because I believe that above all political agendas, issues, or campaign promises, if we as a society can't protect innocent human life, born and unborn, then we can no longer call ourselves civilized. I am an admirer of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who summed it up best when she said, "It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die that you might live as you wish." While neither candidate is perfect, Bush reflects more of my beliefs and values than John Kerry.
Rall claims justified superiority over the majority of the country, both numerical and geographical, who allowed Bush to be re-elected. What Rall is forgetting, is that many of those people who live in the red states are the ones that farm the "better food" that he eats, be it produce, grain, or animal. They manufacture the cars he drives and the materials he uses to build his homes. They preserve the forests and national parks he visits for vacation, and are working to better serve him in the ample amount of travel time he lords over the rest of us. They are the ones dishing out their measly salaries, which Rall has so kindly reminded us of how much "less" they are than his own, to pay for the books the liberals write, the newspapers and magazines they publish, and the "cooler movies" they make. And a a great many of them have fought in the wars this country has won and lost, but that he has only read about.
Rall's elitist mentality leads him to think that the big cities are filled with intellectual liberal progressives. He forgets the mechanics, hairdressers, house-cleaners, the maintenance workers, waiters and waitresses, cashiers, and city workers who DON'T have college degrees, or top-dollar salaries, and who drive further inland from their jobs to their homes because they can't afford to live side-by-side to the big city elite, as is the case in California. What is so funny, is that anyone who has seen the demographic map highlighting county-by-county where the presidential votes went will see that places like California, Oregon, and Washington are mostly Bush territory. In fact, where I live, only 90 minutes away from the liberal mecca of San Francisco, we are mostly Bush as well. The places in California that voted for Bush are the agricultural towns FEEDING the rest of the state. And they are also the places many San Francisco/Bay area workers go home to each evening. It's hilarious that the ones that took over the election are the ones the wealthy liberals have driven out of their cities.
Rall has just proven the point that is contrary to his commentary- that the liberal "elite" are completely out of touch with reality. Rall says he and his compadres know more about what is going on in the world. Well then, why didn't he see this election shocker coming? Does he know so much about what's going on across the street that he has forgotten to take a look in his own backyard? He so eloquently remarked, "Educational achievment doesn't necessarily equal intelligence." Yep, he's right.
Rall has verified in my mind, that the attitudes of those living on the edge of the west coast and the big city easterners are so completely arrogant that the ones holding those beliefs could not possibly serve ME in the capacity of civil servant. He has just answered the question, of why I didn't vote for John Kerry.
I'm sure Kerry appreciates Rall's candor, for now after reading Rall's commentary, us little people feel completely disenfranchised and unserved by those associated with liberal thought. The party that once looked out for the everyday man has forgotten that they themselves rely on the work, services, and VOTES of those men and women.
Yes, us Jesus freaks may be "spectacularly stupid" according to Rall, but we won. And if the democrats don't change something before the next presidential election, Americans will become stupider by the minute.
First, let me clarify that I am registered to no party, because I can not, in good conscience, allign myself with certain aspects of the big two's platforms. However, I did vote for George Bush. It wasn't because I really believed Sadaam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or that he ordered the 9/11 attacks. It was because I believe that above all political agendas, issues, or campaign promises, if we as a society can't protect innocent human life, born and unborn, then we can no longer call ourselves civilized. I am an admirer of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who summed it up best when she said, "It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die that you might live as you wish." While neither candidate is perfect, Bush reflects more of my beliefs and values than John Kerry.
Rall claims justified superiority over the majority of the country, both numerical and geographical, who allowed Bush to be re-elected. What Rall is forgetting, is that many of those people who live in the red states are the ones that farm the "better food" that he eats, be it produce, grain, or animal. They manufacture the cars he drives and the materials he uses to build his homes. They preserve the forests and national parks he visits for vacation, and are working to better serve him in the ample amount of travel time he lords over the rest of us. They are the ones dishing out their measly salaries, which Rall has so kindly reminded us of how much "less" they are than his own, to pay for the books the liberals write, the newspapers and magazines they publish, and the "cooler movies" they make. And a a great many of them have fought in the wars this country has won and lost, but that he has only read about.
Rall's elitist mentality leads him to think that the big cities are filled with intellectual liberal progressives. He forgets the mechanics, hairdressers, house-cleaners, the maintenance workers, waiters and waitresses, cashiers, and city workers who DON'T have college degrees, or top-dollar salaries, and who drive further inland from their jobs to their homes because they can't afford to live side-by-side to the big city elite, as is the case in California. What is so funny, is that anyone who has seen the demographic map highlighting county-by-county where the presidential votes went will see that places like California, Oregon, and Washington are mostly Bush territory. In fact, where I live, only 90 minutes away from the liberal mecca of San Francisco, we are mostly Bush as well. The places in California that voted for Bush are the agricultural towns FEEDING the rest of the state. And they are also the places many San Francisco/Bay area workers go home to each evening. It's hilarious that the ones that took over the election are the ones the wealthy liberals have driven out of their cities.
Rall has just proven the point that is contrary to his commentary- that the liberal "elite" are completely out of touch with reality. Rall says he and his compadres know more about what is going on in the world. Well then, why didn't he see this election shocker coming? Does he know so much about what's going on across the street that he has forgotten to take a look in his own backyard? He so eloquently remarked, "Educational achievment doesn't necessarily equal intelligence." Yep, he's right.
Rall has verified in my mind, that the attitudes of those living on the edge of the west coast and the big city easterners are so completely arrogant that the ones holding those beliefs could not possibly serve ME in the capacity of civil servant. He has just answered the question, of why I didn't vote for John Kerry.
I'm sure Kerry appreciates Rall's candor, for now after reading Rall's commentary, us little people feel completely disenfranchised and unserved by those associated with liberal thought. The party that once looked out for the everyday man has forgotten that they themselves rely on the work, services, and VOTES of those men and women.
Yes, us Jesus freaks may be "spectacularly stupid" according to Rall, but we won. And if the democrats don't change something before the next presidential election, Americans will become stupider by the minute.
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