Reply #2: I have to agree with that last statement. [View All]

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Joe Bageant rails against the same kind of progressive complacency and delicacy all the time. In my own experience, with an inside-the-beltway initiative, the people were generally unable to talk to each other. They could never, ever communicate with a Bubba or a Tumbug. Besides, they wouldn't want to, either. Theirs is a subtle elitist attitude, one caused by a closed and incestuous system, one where connections, reputation and familiarity get them wheere they want to go, which is the promised land of big contributions. Anything outside of the beltways is strange, alien and incomprehensible.

And perhaps unclean.

Get into flyover country, and it even gets more bifurcated.

Some folks need to wipe the shit offn' they upper lips and get that look offn' they faces.