Reply #6: It ain't about "class"--we TOTALLY got over that shit with Trailer Bill, really. [View All]

[MADem]

And those sorts of "who we are" issues transcend party lines. A Republican Catholic, for example, CAN run for the Presidency, thanks to JFK.

Hell, Ronald Reagan came from NUTHIN'--he married a B actress with a rich stepdaddy, but his "pedigree" was Poor Democratic Stock. "Summer" was never a verb for him either--it's when he made money lifeguarding.

That class thing in itself is CODE.

It's really about RELIGION.

See, some religions are "better" than others. Snake handling, Scientology, Mormons, they've got a high hurdle. Anything that isn't 'liturgical' in some sense has a fence to jump, too.

Mainline religions, anything you saw in old black and white movies from the thirties and forties, on the other hand, heck, they aren't even worth mentioning. Catholic, Protestant, no biggie--even Jews are almost "mainstream enough," (I-P issues are the main sticking point, still, regrettably) due to Holy Joe (and that's a political sales achievement considering their small numbers, relative to the overall population).

With Huckabee, the bar is so high you really need a pole to get over it, because it's about a potential President who acknowledges that he thinks that Barney, Fred, Wilma, Betty, Pebbles and Bam-Bam coexisted with Dino and a host of other dinosaurs a scant few thousand years before a Star Shone Over Bethlehem and Baby Jeeeeeeesus changed all our lives.

THAT's what it's about. Class? My ass. Class is Code for "Not Quite Good Enough" Religion. Class is code for "I Spit In The Face of Basic Science, and Proudly, Too!!! I REVEL in My Ignorance!! In the Name of JEEEESUS!" followers.

And THAT, my friends and neighbors, is why "Two Buck Huck" is pushing the "class" theme. He's using it as a DEFLECTOR to prevent discussion of the real issue--the "storefront religion" theme...because that's the REAL elephant in the room.

Mister Egan shoulda pulled that string--he didn't take his little thesis quite far enough.