James would like people not to express these sentiments? James would like people to go to re-education camp? James would like people to think like him, just lurving the rural segment of the working class? James would like us to express our criticisms of the choices made be the working class, how exactly?
I'm tired now, but maybe others could add to the questions.
OK so I'm being goofy. but all these dire warnings suggesting something will happen if people don't react to Sarah Palin in the correct way -- over a freakin' election! like what makes people think lbo talkers will have an impact?
don't. get.
> Doug, corrects me on what America is like: "You really should spend some
> time here to get a full taste of it." Which is true. On the few visits I
> do make what surprises me is how small-town a lot of America is, coming
> from heavily urbanised Europe. So I read, for example, that 'slightly more
> than one-half of the nation's population lived in jurisdictions ---
> cities, towns, boroughs, villages and townships --- with fewer than 25,000
> people or in rural areas.'
> http://www.newgeography.com/content/00242-america-more-small-town-we-think
>
> Which reinforces my suspicion that the LBO-list is a little skewed in its
> demographic towards the larger cities, and out of touch with small town
> America, as, I believe is much of the US left.
>
> That strikes me as a problem, especially seeing some of the visceral
> hatred that Sarah Palin's candidacy provokes. I suggest that a lot of that
> reaction is just anti-working class prejudice, masquerading as
> anti-republicanism (in much the same way that the left here kept its most
> bitter attacks for 'Essex Man' who was supposed to have cost Labour
> victory throughout the 1980s).
>
> The glee that the liberal press take in reporting the (thoroughly
> ordinary) problems in Ms Palin's family life seems to exemplify their
> disdain for ordinary people.
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