>The second phenomenon is cultural elitism of a big part of the "Democratic
>side" - which is manifested inter alia by focus on exotic experiences
>instead of mundane "bread and butter" issues and by the "noble savage"
>paternalism toward lower social strata. That is to say, much of the
>economic struggles of the "middle class" to maintain their standards of
>living became boring and "bourgeois," - the weird and the exotic, the
>stereotypic "two wiccan lesbians wanting to marry and adopt an orphaned
>dolphin" - is now in.
Yeah, that's what Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton are all about.
Weren't you just railing against "abstraction" the other day? Can you offer some examples of prominent Dems who take these positions?
Doug