Letters to the Editor
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Also, enough with the "you treat us like flyover states" stuff
I'll bet over half the comments on Salon come from people in the Flyover States, so please stop this hyperbole about the total voicelessness of over half the nation's land mass.
It was originally bankers, media barons and wealthy pundits who were assumed to view anything outside NYC/LA as an unsophisticated void.
The majority of people do not view the world as a void between major costal cities and even the wealthy urban centers have populations who experience the economy like "regular" Americans.
Conversely, the rest of America is chock full of privileged louts who have no idea what financial anxiety is really like.
The contempt for "flyover" America can certainly be seen in the Texas-based Enron employees who sabatoged California's electric grid for profit.
Being a selfish jerk is not exclusive to one locale - or one group really. It is easier to keeps one's perspective at the bottom, but there are still some misperceptions - and the idea of flyover meaning more integrity or more voiceless is one.
Of course, these concepts are often fed to us by those seeking to avoid responsibility by directing our attention elsewhere. Let's not be bitter at the people who started and profited from this war - who are all over the USA.
Instead let us ignore the selfish ones around us and direct anger only at that one person in the plane overhead who is surely responsible for all our woes.