Friday, June 06, 2008

Progressive Projection

An interesting piece by Kurt Anderson on how liberals should not be running any victory laps for Obamania just yet.
The problem for Obama is that three of the biggest northern states—Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan—sometimes swing southern these days. It’s practically impossible to see how he becomes president without winning two of them. All three, not to put too fine a point on it, contain blocs that bear a certain psychographic kinship with Civil War Southerners—that is, insular white traditionalists who are suspicious of the African-Americans in their midst and resent the ascendant economic and cultural power of self-righteous urban elites (my emphasis). Thus the Clintons’ argument that an Obama candidacy could founder in these key states happens, alas, to be true.

Let's take Mr. Progressive to task.

If you are a white Ohioan living near blacks you have a kinship with the KKK? Maybe, the reason exurban whites are suspicious of the power of self-righteous urban elites is that they can't see, first hand, the final results of what "progressive" leadership does to a community.

Just look below to watch the video of a "progressive" below, who thinks calling the president of the council "Shrek" is more important than actually solving Detroit's multitude of problems.

Maybe they can see cities where the culture of gunning down a defenseless shop owner is precisely the end result of "progressive" policies.

Maybe they can see, up close and personal, the decaying rot & garbage that lines inner city streets. Again, the end result of "progressive" policies.

But instead Mr. "Progressive" just want to write off this voting block as a bunch of closet racists.

Hey Mr. "Progressive", maybe this voting bloc actually has to live with the shit created by a bunch of egg heads like yourself while you go off to your pinot noir sipping parties making fun of those red necks.

Once again, it appears that yet another media types has no problems taking a group of people and generalizing their behaviors and attitudes. But for the people who can actually base their attitudes on facts, is racist.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love his phrase "swing southern". Could he have been more ignorant of the values we have in middle america.

I live in the midwest and have always had a good life, be it during the Carter, Reagan, Clinton administrations. I'm a conservative like most of my peers. I also believe we have a social obligation to give the best opportunity possible for those less fortunate.

We conservatives believe that free markets and small government provide the best opportunity for all economic levels. That's why we are against liberalism. We believe that the democratic party and liberalism has done more to drive people into difficult economic circumstances than any other social movement in history.

If some limousine liberal interprets this as "swinging southern" that's just plain laziness on his part to understand the movement. His ignorance is on full display. We conservatives have got to get away from letting idiot socialists like this get away with the premise that A) society is a zero sum game and B) that conservatives goals are self serving. It's the exact opposite. If you want to look at self serving polititions, look at the democrats in charge of any city. Most are consolidating their own money and power while their constituents live in garbage dumps.

gordon gekko said...

Obamania's given me plenty of reasons to vote against him.

His race isn't one of those.

Hopefully the voters understand that it's because of policies Obamania supports that keeps good auto worker jobs overseas.