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<div>Dumbest thing I've read all month. Christ, I'm a socialist and even I viscerally recoil with a snarl at a sermon from the upper west side about how much morally superior they are to those awful hicks in the flyover states. 'Tude like this is why the liberals lost the culture wars. Thank malatesta I live in northern Nevada. I'd take an afternoon with a mormon roads department truck driver over this jerkoff snob any day of the week. "It's so unjust". Waah waaa. Thanks for driving blue-collar middle america into the arms of the fascists, dickhead.
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<div><br>James Wolcott writes:<br>It's so unjust.<br><br><br>As a resident of the Upper West Side and a regular bus<br>rider, I must protest that the truth has been<br>perverted and inverted. Yes, the Upper West Side is<br>
liberal, socially conscious, multi-culti, gay-friendly<br>(Rosie's brother Daniel—also gay—is our state<br>assemblyman), and occasionally itchy with political<br>correctness. And, yes, it's true that we care, perhaps<br>care too much, rattling our Zabar's bags as we nag the
<br>nation's conscience to no avail. Really, though, such<br>little harm we do, what unracy lives we lead. It's<br>like Jewish-Hispanic-Amish country up here! The broad<br>sidewalks present a wholesome cavalcade of baby<br>
strollers, Columbia University students, diabetics on<br>canes, and tourists posing in front of Tom's<br>Restaurant, the diner made famous on Seinfeld. It<br>isn't the cultural bastions of the blue states such as<br>the Upper West Side that are greasing America's slide
<br>into the disco inferno. It's the Republican red states<br>that are lowering the country's moral standards and<br>dragging us through muck and malaise, the red states<br>that are pustulating with horny hypocrites, rampant
<br>crime, polygamy, crystal-meth labs, federal handouts<br>(The Economist recently christened Alaska "America's<br>welfare state"), illegitimate births, blimping<br>waistlines, and future generations of dumb bunnies.
<br>JonBenet Ramsey, dolled up and immortalized in her<br>beauty-pageant footage, is the pre-pubescent<br>red-hot-mama mascot of red-state Babylon.<br> </div></div>