joanna bujes:
> I would also say that he succeeds...where many in the left fail...because
> he presents himself unashamedly, aggressively, as a working class slob:
> he's overweight, he wears one of those silly baseball caps, he is never
> fashionable. He never makes the working class feel ashamed of
> themselves...something that leftists often inadvertantly do by portraying
> the ideal life that the working class can achieve when they have thrown off
> their oppressors. At any rate, I have noticed that the socialist
> "idealization" of the future (aside from producing very good jokes) can
> have the indirect effect of making working people ashamed of their present.
As a literally working-class person, I find working-class slobs, overweight, wearing baseballs hats, to be an embarrassing affectation or imposition. Many working-class persons are of average or even less than average weight, dress carefully or even well, and choose a variety of head coverings, including none at all. I suspect Moore differs from the run of the Left by being entertaining for the usual reasons: imagination, sense of timing, emotional aim, art in general.
And as for hats, especially a baseball hat on a certain type of person is almost as certain a manifest of duplicity as a necktie on a businessman or the lack of one on a politician.
-- Gordon