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"Stupid" people do not like to be reminded every freaking day by the left wing progressives, the elite, the uber-educated how dumb they are. They don't like to be told that their values are stupid and they don't like to be looked down upon. They think they are as educated as you and it didn't take a $30,000 student loan to get there. Talk about miseducation. The crazy left wing DESTROYED the ability of the democratic party to elect ANYONE. When will the fuckups learn this?
Whoa!!What is it about this post that has driven the trolls onto these letters pages in such huge numbers reigniting the cultural wars with a vengeance. I don't know who or what is responsible for this painful divisiveness, but all of you need to back up and take a deep breath.
I do believe that the phrase "don't like to be looked down upon" is pervasive among those on the right. I have a cousin who says that all the time. Extraordinarily defensive all of you are. Is it possible that in some deeply internalized way you realize how very insular and reactionary your whole movement and party has become? I don't believe that the left has been miseducated. With all due respect, look to that evangelical religion so many of you give allegiance to and those private schools that so many of you attend to identify the roots of miseducation which are so prevalent and so inform the politics of the right.
I grew up in a small Southern town and have lived in a small Southern city for over 30 years. My widowed Mother raised 4 kids by working in a factory with no benefits, so when she retired she had/has nothing other than Social Security and what those 4 children contribute. I was the only one who made it through 4 years of college, thanks to a teacher's scholarship. I don't demean anyone who went to college on a scholarship and I know for a fact that as many on the right receive scholarships and loans as those on the left. Elite is a term that is more correctly applied to McCain than it is to Obama. In this case, most of us know that "elite" as used in this campaign season is another word for "uppity".
I don't demean all those friends and relatives who have embraced the views of the right. I do, however, think their views are wrong for the country and never more so because they have been in the ascendancy for the past 3 decades and this ship needs to tack left for a while, for the sake of ALL of us, not just America but the whole international community.
