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Geez, Bill
Bush Hires Incompetents: Let's Celebrate Our Own Prejudices!
Seriously...
Left-wingers like us see the ugliness of the implied racism, etc., in right wing attitudes; we can see it clearly from afar. But everybody can fall into that kind of lazy, self-aggrandizing thinking.
Just because Bush hires clueless loyalists is not an excuse to embrace our own prejudices.
To throw out language like "redneck" and hayseed," etc., is just as narrow-minded as dismissing inner city trash, or whatever.
Second, Republicans are as elitist as they come. Let's not celebrate that stupidity either.
We all know the "elite" college degrees are about as good an indicator of intelligence as a cow is for wind direction.