HA!
It's been a long time since I saw someone with the balls to segue from this:
In a way, she is another Anna Nicole Smith, the quintessential trailer trash
> and gold digger who used her sex appeal to "make it" against all odds - an
> ideal with which countless middle and working class women (and men) can
> easily identify and which "liberal elites" scorned.
to this:
Anti-intellectualism and gutter populism are formidable forces in American
> politics, especially when combined with racism
Of course, all that nasty anti-intellectualism MUST be be twinned with racism! What else could explain such a peculiar disorder? Surely not an innate dislike people have for being called things like "trailer trash" by imaginary "liberal elites"!
Woj, you've made my day.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."