WHY ELITES HATE?

 WHY ELITES HATE?

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - WED. JUNE  7, 2017

AGAIN THANKS TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WRITER WILLIAM MCGURN, TUESDAY, JUNE 6/17

LIKE "THE NEWS YOU DIDN'T HEAR" THIS IS ANOTHER CLASSIC.

" NINE YEARS AFTER BARACK OBAMA ACCUSED SMALLTOWNERS OF CLINGING TO GUN AND RELIGION, NEARLY THREE YEARS AFTER JOHNATHAN GRUBER WAS SHOWN TO HAVE ATTRIBUTED OBAMACARE'S PASSAGE TO THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERIAN VOTER, AND EIGHT MONTHS AFTER HILLARY CLINTON PRONOUNCED HALF OF DONALD TRUMP'S VOTERS "IREEDEMABLE," DEMOCRATS ARE NOW GETTING SOME SOPHISTICATED ADVICE: YOU DON'T WIN VOTES BY SHOWING CONTEMPT FOR VOTERS.

IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO A FLURRY OF ARTICLES HAVE APPEARED AGRUING FOR TONING DOWN THE LOOKING-DOWN. IN "THE NEW REPUBLIC" MICHAEL TOMASKY WRITES UNDER THE HEADING "ELITISM IS LIBERALISM'S BIGGEST PROBLEM." OVER AT "THE NEW YORK TIMES," JOAN C. WILLIAMS WEIGHS IN WITH "THE DUMB POLITICS OF ELITE CONDENSCENCES." "SLATE" GOES WITH A Q&A ON "ADVICE ON HOW TO TALK TO THE WHITE WORKING CLASS WITHOUT INSULTING THEM." STANFOR GREEN AT "THE AMERICAN PROSPECT," WRITES ON "THE DEMOCRATS' 'WORKING CLASS PROBLEM,' AND KEVING DRUM AT "MOTHER JONES" ASKS FOR "LESS LIBERAL CONTEMPT PLEASE."

NONE OF THESE PIECES ARE DIRECTED AT TRUMP NATION. TO THE CONTRARY, THEY ARE PITCHED TO PROGRESSIVES STILL HAVING A HARD TIME COMING TO GRIPS WITH DONALD'S VICTORY LAST NOVEMBER. MUCH OF WHAT THESE AUTHORS WRITE IS SENSIBLE. BUT IT CAN ALSO BE HILARIOUS, PARTICULARLY WHEN THE EFFORT TO EXPLAIN ORDINARY AMERICANS TO PROGRESSIVE ELITES READS LIKE A MARGARET MEAD ENTRY ON THE HABITS OF SAMOANS.

MR. TOMASKY, FOR EXAMPLE INFORMS PROGRESSIVES THAT MIDDLE AMERICANS - WAIT FOR IT -"GO TO TO CHURCH." THEY HAVE FRIENDS ("AND SOMETIMES EVEN SPOUSES") "WHO ARE REPUBLICANS." "THEY DON'T FEEL SELF-CONSCIOUS SALUTING THE FLAG." WHO KNEW?

MOST OF THESE WRITERS ALLOW THERE IS AT LEAST SOME FRACTION OF TRUMP VOTERS WHO ARE NOT DEPLORABLE. WHAT THEY DO NOT APPRECIATE IS HOW CONDESCENDING THEY CAN BE WHILE ADVISING THEIR FELLOW DEMOCRATS TO BE LESS CONDENSCENDING. EXHITE A: MR. DRUM RECOMMENDATION THAT DEMOCRATS CAN "BROADEN [THEIR] APPEAL" BECAUSE THESE ARE "PERSUADABLE, LOW INFORMATION FOLKS." ...

MS. WILLIAMS, A UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LAW PROFESSOR WHO HAS WRITTEN A NEW BOOK ON THE WHITE WORKING CLASS, GENEROUSLY AVOIDS TELLING HER INTERVIEWER HE IS A PERFECT INSTANCE OF THE PROBLEM. BUT THE LARGER PROGRESSIVE DILEMMA HERE IS THAT CONTEMPT IS BAKED INTO IDENTITY POLITICS THAT DEFINES TODAY'S DEMO. PARTY.

WHEN MRS. CLINTON LABELED TRUMP VOTERS DEPLORABLE ("RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, XENOPHOBIC, ISLAMOPHOBIC, YOU NAME IT" SHE WAS SIMPLY FOLLOWING IDENTITY POLITICS TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION. BECAUSE IDENTITY POLITICS TRANSFORMS THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT - I.E., AMERICANS WHO ARE PRO-LIFE, WHO RESPECT THE MILITARY, WHO MAY WORK IN THE COAL INDUSTRY - FROM POLITICAL OPPONENTS INTO OPPRESSORS." ....

George H. Kubeck,                                                                                                                  

Progressivism has no foundation in the writings of our Founding Fathers. Founding Father  Alexander Hamilton would rip the culture of progressivism to pieces.