Letters to the Editor
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Reminds me of an interview with Russ Feingold
This article reminds me of something Russ Feingold wrote a while back regarding a tour of the southern states he made before he finally shed his presidential ambitions for 2008. I can't remember the specifics of what he said, but the gist was that the people he met lived in an accepted state of poverty, insofar as the "white male" would rather vote for someone who will guarantee their right to own a gun over their right to affordable health care, or a pro-life candidate vs. a candidate promising new roads or more housing opportunities.
I was struck by this, that there is a segment of the population who are not only content to live in poverty and uncertainty, but through their voting patterns, are condemning the rest of America, or at least a large portion of it, to the same fate.
So I still marvel at the lame attempts of the Democrats in the past couple of election cycles to pander to this group that has no interest in affordable health care, a good education, or a renovated national infrastructre. Let them vote for their "family values" candidate (whatever the hell that means anyway) whose state is last in the nation on jobs and education. It's tragic.