I do not understand why the recent conservative rhetoric as of late is trying to maintain that conservatives in the general populace are the "average man," "Joe plumber," et cetera et cetera. Why have conservatives now assumed the personae of everyday commoners?
And they are insisting that liberals are elitist, conceited, privileged, and stuff.
This does not gel at all with the sociopolitical dynamic we have seen in years of yore. In the past it has always been liberals that were average, that rallied against the snooty stuck-up elite. They did not like rich people, they did not like corporate embezzlers, they did not like tax breaks for the wealthy. And if you go further back in history, liberals did not like educated people, or privileged people, or business owners, or plantation owners, or land owners, or government office holders. And certainly not slave-owners, but I do agree with them on that one.
Aren't conservatives the rich corporate execs? Conservatives have always been the privileged rich white people that have connections, that easily get accepted into the Ivy League because Mother and Daddy are rich.
Conservatives are the ones with the connections; that is their historic impression with They can effortlessly slip into business, into government, comfortably coasting right out of their ivory towers of higher education on their parents' coattails, ad ilk. "The stupid sons of rich men." Quote by Charles Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University.
Liberals aren't elitists. Conservatives are. Liberals are the dregs of society. They have a couple of diseases, a couple of unwanted out-of-wedlock pregnancies, they have crack babies. They have rap sheets the length of the human genome project, and woefully subpar literacy rates. They are always poor and downtrodden. They are the throwaway people.
And they keep making more of themselves, unchecked, so it does not matter if we lose a couple three. Liberals supposedly always work for the poor, the tired, the hungry, the huddled masses, always rooting for the underdog. And this part is hilarious -- they have horrible hygiene. I am seriously not making that up; it's been documented.
Liberals are usually average, but they don't seem to realize it because their self-esteem is falsely inflated. This is what the American Idol judges have been trying to drive home. All these untalented hacks are constantly being told by society, being told by by their butt-kissing sycophantic friends, by liberals, that you can do it! If you really want something bad enough, you can have it! It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game! It doesn't matter if you failed and if you did not get the desired results, what matters is that you tried your best! Even if you didn't actually try your best! What matters is that you *wanted* the success! With lots of exclamation points!
Forty years of social promotion has had the unforeseen consequence of convincing a couple generations of people that they are extraordinary, ferociously intelligent, supermen and superwomen, talented beyond their wildest imaginations.
And that if they really put their minds to it, they can accomplish anything. This has been the ongoing modus operandi in public grade schools, in the workforce, in college admissions practices, in community organizations such as youth athletics, art contests.
That is the biggest reason I don't get why Sarah Palin is the poster child for good ol' fashioned down home values of being a doofus and thinking that heart and character (ehhhh ehhhhh screeching sound) qualify her for running for president. These self-described conservatives seem to be embracing liberal conceits of being an idiot and being proud of it.
Elitism? Education? Social status? Why are these now suddenly being maligned as liberal ideals? These are conservative precepts.
And now conservatives are trying to paint themselves as some sort of savior for the people? Where did this strange reversal of dynamic suddenly emerge from?
And they are insisting that liberals are elitist, conceited, privileged, and stuff.
This does not gel at all with the sociopolitical dynamic we have seen in years of yore. In the past it has always been liberals that were average, that rallied against the snooty stuck-up elite. They did not like rich people, they did not like corporate embezzlers, they did not like tax breaks for the wealthy. And if you go further back in history, liberals did not like educated people, or privileged people, or business owners, or plantation owners, or land owners, or government office holders. And certainly not slave-owners, but I do agree with them on that one.
Aren't conservatives the rich corporate execs? Conservatives have always been the privileged rich white people that have connections, that easily get accepted into the Ivy League because Mother and Daddy are rich.
Conservatives are the ones with the connections; that is their historic impression with They can effortlessly slip into business, into government, comfortably coasting right out of their ivory towers of higher education on their parents' coattails, ad ilk. "The stupid sons of rich men." Quote by Charles Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University.
Liberals aren't elitists. Conservatives are. Liberals are the dregs of society. They have a couple of diseases, a couple of unwanted out-of-wedlock pregnancies, they have crack babies. They have rap sheets the length of the human genome project, and woefully subpar literacy rates. They are always poor and downtrodden. They are the throwaway people.
And they keep making more of themselves, unchecked, so it does not matter if we lose a couple three. Liberals supposedly always work for the poor, the tired, the hungry, the huddled masses, always rooting for the underdog. And this part is hilarious -- they have horrible hygiene. I am seriously not making that up; it's been documented.
Liberals are usually average, but they don't seem to realize it because their self-esteem is falsely inflated. This is what the American Idol judges have been trying to drive home. All these untalented hacks are constantly being told by society, being told by by their butt-kissing sycophantic friends, by liberals, that you can do it! If you really want something bad enough, you can have it! It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game! It doesn't matter if you failed and if you did not get the desired results, what matters is that you tried your best! Even if you didn't actually try your best! What matters is that you *wanted* the success! With lots of exclamation points!
Forty years of social promotion has had the unforeseen consequence of convincing a couple generations of people that they are extraordinary, ferociously intelligent, supermen and superwomen, talented beyond their wildest imaginations.
And that if they really put their minds to it, they can accomplish anything. This has been the ongoing modus operandi in public grade schools, in the workforce, in college admissions practices, in community organizations such as youth athletics, art contests.
That is the biggest reason I don't get why Sarah Palin is the poster child for good ol' fashioned down home values of being a doofus and thinking that heart and character (ehhhh ehhhhh screeching sound) qualify her for running for president. These self-described conservatives seem to be embracing liberal conceits of being an idiot and being proud of it.
Elitism? Education? Social status? Why are these now suddenly being maligned as liberal ideals? These are conservative precepts.
And now conservatives are trying to paint themselves as some sort of savior for the people? Where did this strange reversal of dynamic suddenly emerge from?