I couldn’t help it. As I’ve written here in the past (see: here and here), I can occasionally work myself up a bit reading comments of people who post on lefty blogs and message boards. I almost never post anything myself or comment on something that has been posted. But I was really [...]
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Sometimes, liberals REALLY suck
Posted in Elitism, Politics, Populism, tagged Buy American, Huey Long, Huffington Post, Liberals, populism on February 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So, a little while ago, I posted the bit about the formation of the new Populist Caucus in the House. Thought it was pretty cool, so I started reading a bit more on it. Then, I made the mistake of reading the story’s comments section on Huffington Post. A sampling?
A (mostly) snarkless rebuttal
Posted in Elitism, Political Parties, Politics, Populism, tagged Breakfast Club, Claire McCaskill, elite, Greenwich Village, intellectualism, Jim Webb, John Kerry, Matt Taibbi, Rush Limbaugh on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Response to my brother’s post:
I guess if we’re kicking these off with movie quotes, I’ll reach for the high-ground (not a tough climb from “fuck-mooks”)
Brian: Did you know that without trigonometry there would be no engineering?
Bender: Without lamps there would be no light.
-The Breakfast Club
But I’ll leave that aside for a bit. Truth is, [...]
Norma Rae, Rocky, and WJB for good measure
Posted in 2008 Primary, Elitism, Politics, Populism, tagged Appalachia, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Norma Rae, Rocky, William Jennings Bryan, working class on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over at Huffington Post, Bill Curry writes about the success of Act Two for Hillary in the Democratic Primary:
In Ohio and then Pennsylvania she channeled a surprisingly convincing blend of Rocky Balboa and Norma Rae in courting America’s least visible, least fashionable, constituency: hard scrabble, small town whites…
…As was said of Julia Roberts in [...]
Democrats for the Leisure Class
Posted in Elitism, Political Parties, Politics, Top, tagged Appalachia, Blue Dogs, DailyKos, DLC, elite, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Mark Penn, rednecks, William F. Buckley Jr, working class on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let’s get one thing straight: the Democratic Leadership Council is not culturally conservative.
They’re pro-business, pro-free trade, anti-populist, and covet all that corporate money for Democrats. They’re spineless on national security issues, with the top leadership split pretty evenly between the hawks and the doves (the hawks usually win the DLC’s internal debate), and they’re [...]
The inverted Churchill
Posted in Elitism, Libertarianism, Patriotism, Politics, Populism, tagged Liberals, Winston Churchill on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone loves a good Churchill quote, and for a lot of people I know, none can live up to the famous: “If you’re not a liberal at age 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at age 40, you have no head.” Sure, whether or not he actually ever said [...]
