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It’s God’s Fault
Why Democrats hate the American middle class.
(Page 2 of 4)
But why? Why were Democrats suddenly in such a panic because their own delegates wanted God out of the platform?
There is a reason — and it’s a big reason. A very big reason.
God — which is to say religion — is forever associated in American culture with arguably the largest, most influential voting bloc in the country: the American middle-class.
Middle class Americans may be Catholic. They may be Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans or Jews. They may be Evangelicals. Or fundamentalists. They may be… hmmmm… Mormon. Yes they may even be Islamic non-fundamentalists. But whatever their faith may be — and we’ve only touched the surface by naming the above faiths — what they all have in common besides their middle-class status is God. Not to mention a belief system, a value hierarchy of morals, hard work and patriotism that revolves around God.
So it was no accident last week that President Obama and former President Bill Clinton took pains to say some version of exactly the same thing: Democrats just luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvv the American middle class. Really. Honest. No kidding. Democrats have all these exciting, especially-designed-for-the-middle-class programs old and new, you see, and…
Stop. Stop.
Politely put, this is not just another round of your average political snowjob. The inevitable wooing and mooing by one group of partisans designed to win an election.
This is grimacing, clenched-teeth-with-a-forced-smile political BS. BS designed to get must-have votes from a group of Americans today’s Democrats — the embodiment of the American Left — hate.
Yes, hate. Viscerally hate. Hate every bit as much as they hate Rush or Hannity or Levin or Fox.
Why do they hate the American middle-class, whether lower, middle-middle or upper?
They hate the American middle class — hate it passionately and precisely because it embodies the three values of religion, capitalism and, oh yes, love of country — patriotism.
EXAMPLES OF HOW the Left so disdains the middle class would fill three Internets. This special contempt, which began spreading like a virus in the 1960s, now permeates not only the nation’s politics but its culture — its movies, music, books, television and now the Internet.
Let’s begin with just one example — a famous movie from the 1960s. A film where this visceral hatred of the American middle class and its values first began to appear.
The film? The Graduate.
If you want to know why the Democrats and the American Left hate the American middle class, look no further than The Graduate. The famous 1967 movie based on the Charles Webb novel. The film, which won seven Oscar nominations from Hollywood and won an Oscar for director Mike Nichols (now the husband of ABC anchor Diane Sawyer) is (adjusted for inflation) one of the highest grossing films in the U.S. and Canada.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Darin| 9.11.12 @ 6:47AM
Democrats formed the KKK, opposed civil rights laws and supported Jim Crow laws.
Democrats seek to keep blacks "in their place" through a wide range of programs like welfare, food stamps, etc.
Democrats support killing an unborn baby at any stage of development (including letting one born alive die).
Democrats seek to redefine marriage.
Democrats embrace sexual predators like Bill Clinton.
Democrats deny Israel has a right to exist and to name its own capital.
Democrats brand anyone who disagrees with them as a "hater."
None of the above statements are false. Let the hateful comments begin.
Aristocat| 9.11.12 @ 7:10AM
All true...
Democrats redefine marriage by allowing homosexuals to bugger each other and call it marriage....AIDS epidemic is a direct result of that.
Jack in Wi| 9.11.12 @ 7:30AM
I predict the Democrats war on religion especially the Christian religion is Obama's biggest potential gamble. If Romney and his advisors knew what they were doing they could get a lot of milage out of it. But do they know what they are doing?
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 9:56AM
The Left doesn't worry about getting Middle Class Votes.
Like everything they, and the Muslims do. They do it with Patience. Baby Steps.
As the Great Chinese Philosopher - Joe Jitsu - once said: "Every Journey to a Godless, Jew Hating, Totalitarian, Worker's Paradise begins with a single step."
So true.
They have spent the better part of 30 Years, eroding away the Middle Class in this Country, with their Union Thug Allies, pushing all of the jobs Overseas, with their Impossible Demands.
CHICAGO, as we speak.
If this Thing gets re-elected?
That Sucking Sound will be Purp, Pelleas, Alanhasanyoneseenmyhamsterblacknegrobrooks, and the Tide rushing Out, taking the remainder of our Middle Class Jobs with them.
Now what?
That's what I thought.
AmericanCynic| 9.11.12 @ 1:48PM
Oh, stop it...unless you want to admit that many of those Southern Dems (Dixiecrats) migrated to the Republican party.
AhiaBoy| 9.11.12 @ 4:27PM
Sorry AmCynic, you can't use your ignorance of history to prove your point.
The Democrat party, author and wielder of the Jim Crow laws was monolithic in the South after Reconstruction. The racists resided there and ran things. People like Pitchfork Ben Tillman in South Carolina enthusiastically supported segregation and grew and maintained power by the traditional Democrat playbook of dividing people: rich vs. poor, black vs. white, rural vs. big city folk, yadayada...
It was the Grand Old Patriarchs of the Democrat Party that fought Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of the 60s: Byrd, Gore Sr, Fullbright, etc. They didn't switch parties.
And those Dixiecrats who switched to Republican did so AFTER they renounced their racial separatist past: Thurmond, Wallace, Maddox et al.
Isn't it annoying when facts trump ideology?
AmericanCynic| 9.11.12 @ 5:22PM
"Isn't it annoying when facts trump ideology"
Project much?
Your post is loaded with generalized ideology. Not sure why you think you've "debunked" my reasonable assertion.
In the 1960s the Republicans had plenty of people support the Civil Rights, yes...almost as many as the nation's Democrats.
Today, most progressive Republicans have been chased out of your party.
You're right about Byrd (whom I've never liked) and yes, Fullbright was a signer of the Southern Manifesto in the 50s and voted against the Civil rights Act in '64, but later regretted it and voted for future civil rights bills. Gore Sr, however, was a supporter of Civil Rights, so not sure where you're getting your info.
I'm a liberal, A-Boy, not a supporter of all things Democrat.
Nick| 9.11.12 @ 7:53PM
Hey, it's the wiki historian, AC.
But, even your source of choice, gets this one correct.
Senator algore, sr., VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Einstein.
Because he was a racist democrat.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.11.12 @ 5:46PM
"My audience is comprised of the people who make this country work."
So Rush would admit the wealthy don't do much?
Dodd2| 9.11.12 @ 7:16AM
The Democratic Party is the antithesis of the middle class.
merlin| 9.11.12 @ 5:16PM
But Dodd2, the Democrat Party is the Party of God, don't ya know. Stupid conservative didn't know it was Allah, not Jehovah, that got the 2/3 vote.
Alan| 9.11.12 @ 7:28AM
The middle class has always been the bain of Marxists. Class warfare works best when you have only the rich and poor to work with. If there is a middle class, then it has to go piece by piece.
Otis, my man!| 9.11.12 @ 9:23AM
Yes, it seems to have begun with Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Thus no coincidence the contempuous left-wing term for the middle class, "bourgeoisie," is French.
Jack of Spades| 9.11.12 @ 7:59AM
It's worth noting that most of the people on the left who despise the middle class are themselves from the middle class if not the upper class. Jane Fonda and John Kerry come to mind. Among others.
The Avenger| 9.11.12 @ 8:06AM
My take on this is: The middle class is diverse, non racist , God fearing, and patriotic. Is it any wonder the left hates them?
JP| 9.11.12 @ 8:15AM
I don't think Jeffrey Lord gets it. The American Electorate by and large is impervious to Republican debating points. Most American Middle Class voters (at least the so-called Professional Class) do not look at themselves as Bourgeosie. In spirit at least, they see themselves as kindered spirits to the Elite of this nation. And the Elite see most Americans (especially those that live in Suburbia) as nothing but parasites who must be punished and then controlled. Today's comfortable Middle Class at least attempt to mimick the bohemian life they see the Elite live in New York and LA. And they certainly do not wish to be associated with the likes of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, or Rush Limbaugh. Do not confuse the Tea Party with the Middle Class. Those who support the Tea Party operate family businesses, or are philosophical Federalists who have more in common with Burke or Chesterton than Mitt Romney. The comfortable Middle Class is more liberal than you think.
Stephie| 9.11.12 @ 9:00AM
I don't see the middle class this way. I consider us middle class, we both own small businesses and live on a rural 5 acres. And I do not imitate New Yorkers.
And I would love to be associated with Rush!
JP| 9.11.12 @ 9:11AM
Stephie,
I know 5 couples who live in Suburbia. They are all professionals who earn between $90-$150k per year. Three of the five voted vote Bush in 04. But since then they all have gone over to the otherside. They all blame Bush for every single problem they've faced during the last 5 years. Whether it is the jobs problems, falling home prices, or skyrocketing energy and food prices, it is all the GOP and Bush's fault. All of the couples possess college degrees and professional certifications. And all tend to ape the cultural trends at large. I live smack dab in the middle of the US . But these people tend to avoid the "locals" and spend as much free time as they can afford to travel to Chicago or New York where they feel more at home.
You may consider yourself "Middle Class". But, to those who follow demographics (such as Charles Murray) there has been a titanic shift in recent decades. Earned Income doesn't necessairly gauge a person's life style or politics anymore.
A. C. Santore| 9.11.12 @ 9:31AM
Five Whole Couples! Wow! You're certainly the right guy to evaluate "couples who live in Suburbia"! And the middle class!
Pish and piddle.
JP| 9.11.12 @ 12:10PM
You may think this is insignificant. But, you are not keeping up with demographics. People like you just focus on incomes -hence middle income or middle class. And Conservatives assume this class is solidly GOP. Wrong. The Middle Class vote has steadily been going the Dems way since 1992. Suburbia, working professionals, and so so-called Cognitive Class is almost now solidly Democratic. The GOP has the rural conservatives, and small business owners, as well as "movement conservatives". But, as a whole, the Middle Class is becoming Blue.
No_BlahBlah| 9.11.12 @ 12:26PM
Every study I have seen in the past several years lists conservatives as the largest demographic in the country.
Let me ask a stupid question.
'Professionals'
$90-$100K / yr
What percentage of your sample are members of public sector unions, i.e., work for government?
JP| 9.11.12 @ 3:43PM
Roughly 40% either work for the government or a university. Twenty percent were in "management" (project managers, CPAs, CIOs, CFOs,Sales, etc..); another 20% were in Engineering, IT, econometrics, etc.. the other 10% worked for non-profits. The data came from Charles Murray.
And conservative isn't a demographic group, but a political label.
Grzmlyk| 9.11.12 @ 4:25PM
At first I balked at JP's analysis - and I admit I haven't thoroughly digested it, but I'm in a hurry and want to throw this in.
But I think it's true that, first of all, most people in this country are herd animals. And the corral has herded these bovine creatures ever leftward for the last 75 years.
One fact is that every time the left pushes the social order to the left and achieves its goal, that then becomes the status quo that must be shattered. Say it's tolerance of gays. They acheived that, and it became the status quo. So they pushed leftward - "alternate lifestyle" families via civil unions and adoption had to be tolerated - and then embraced. Then it's gay marriage. Once they get that, it'll be incest (we've already seen Nick Cassavettes, Hollywood director, speak out in favor of incest).
In other words, what is considered "right wing" is pushed ever leftward by the culture. Today, if you don't believe women ought to be as promiscuous as they want and that you and I should pay for the consequences of their choices - i.e., birth control and abortions - you are now a misogynist - when, 20 years ago, even the most liberal whack job college student wouldn't have suggested this.
Grzmlyk| 9.11.12 @ 4:31PM
(cont'd)
So our culture is moving further to the left - yesterday's non-judgmental liberal is today's right wing bigot.
As we have become wealthier - or at least, through cheap credit it has appeared we have become weathier - people have felt an inexplicable pull to the left - we have abandoned the common sense of cause and effect and, as a culture, have moved into the false consciousness of replacing our judeo-Christian ethos with a secular worship of ourselves. Our narcissism confuses government largesse and tolerance of egregious behavior as compassion.
We no longer live in the real world, and we excuse our own decadance and narcissism by demanding that government throw other people's money at problems - and then we don't really care about the consequences of those policies - witness LBJ's Great Society - the war on poverty and Medicaid and Medicare. They haven't worked, they've cost trillions more than advertised and they've created vast disincentives to behave properly, save money and be grown-ups. And still the poverty rate hasn't changed.
Despite what Emmett Tyrell says about America poised to become a conservative nation again, we are in fact a population of fools, crooks, pawns and vandals.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:19PM
I'll excuse this, because I know you were "In a hurry".
That is NOT what most Americans feel.
We love God, and Country, and we go to War for this Country, and send our Kids off to War, because we love it.
I get it, there are Millions on both COASTS, that represent what you have stated.
But, the rest of us follow the Teachings of God, Christ, our Parents, our Grandparents, and our sense of Duty to the Country we Love.
Don't sell is short, just yet.
I'm just sayin.
Grzmlyk| 9.11.12 @ 7:22PM
I'm sorry, but I don't agree that "most" Americans love God, country and will go to war for this country. That's an America that is now long ago. There are a few, to be sure, but it is NOT the majority.
If we hadn't slid so far to the left as a culture, we would never have elected Obama - he is the ultimate "Manchurian candidate" (to exercise a cliche) - nobody knows much at all about his past - his true place of birth, the nature of his relationships with his family, his schoolmates, girlfriends, how he got into Occidental, how he parlayed that to Columbia, how he parlayed THAT to Harvard and then into a "guest lecturer/assistant professorship." Those swaths of information have been blotted out and an incurious press doesn't care - yet a majority of Americans elected him.
What IS known about him is his Marxist connections, from his mother to Frank Marshall Davis to Bill Ayers to Saul Alinsky; yet a majority o Americans elected him (my childhood best friend, now a professor at U of Nebraska, thinks Obama is doing a very good job); we've seen him in action for four years - from his endless usurpations of power with the czars to his nationalizing of the auto industry to his economically ignorant stimuli to his grab at totalitarianism via Obamacare, and still a majority of Americans support him.
Grzmlyk| 9.11.12 @ 7:23PM
(cont'd)
The very existence of Barack Hussein Obama at the center of the political action in country tells you everything you need to know about the critical mass of the American electorate.
As Rush Limbaugh implies, it is not Barack Obama that is the problem in this country; it is the utterly rotten popular culture that gave him even a moment's notice in the first place and then had the incredible collective lack of wisdom and judgment to elevate him to the Oval Office.
And if you still think that MOST Americans love God, country and will go to war for it, then I'd like to know where the hell they've been for the last 50 years.
If a majority of people feel like that, then why have they stood by while we've become this putrid, fetid, wretched, entitled, greedy, ugly, godless, vain, frivolous, lazy, morally bankrupt socialist state?
I will agree with the Reverend Right this far: Our chickens have come home to roost.
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 10:35AM
Nonsense. The middle class is essentially conservative the day to day way they live their lives. They have families, work hard, and believe in the American Dream. Many of them just THINK they are liberal, and thus are as likely to vote democrat as they would republican. I have dozens of friends who are so conflicted and confused politically it would make your head spin. Basically, they don't spend much time analyzing politics since they are so busy with their kids' activities, but half of them get their news from misguided soundbites and slogans. Half of them really believe the nonsense about republicans wanting to starve the poor and destroy the environment. Yet, they live very conservative lives. Like I said, they are conflicted. And very naive. Even worse, they vote.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 3:03PM
Very good comment. I see much of this as well. They claim not to want to talk about politics because it's "such a mess", but in their casual apathy, they clearly believe all the worst straw man arguments against conservatives. At the same time, they bristle when faced with liberalism in their personal lives, only they don't recognize it as liberalism and complain if you call it so.
JP| 9.11.12 @ 3:46PM
Millions of middle class people in New England work hard, save, stay married and live the American Dream. And they are reliable Democrat voters. If you want to find the most "stable" middle class families look to Blue States in New England. If you want to find the highest rates of illegitimacy and teen mothers go to the Red States.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:22PM
Obviously, you're a Fcking Idiot.
New England is a HUGE PROBLEM.
Stable Family Units?
It's a Fcking Freak Show ala California.
Grzmlyk| 9.11.12 @ 7:36PM
As I said above, the vast majority of people who vote Democrat fall into one of four categories: Fools, crooks, pawns and vandals. Most of the people you describe are fools.
The college professor friend I describe above - who thinks Obama's doing just swell, because all he reads is the NY Times, actually said to me that he doesn't mind paying more in taxes if it means that "poor people will finally have health care."
If that is not one of the most naive comments I've ever heard in my life!!! Jaw droppingly foolish. The only thing that would shock me more is if he said he still believed in the tooth fairy.
Most people don't give a damn about the reality of these policies once they're enacted, or the sinister motivations that lurk behind the phony compassionate smiles; if they're doing reasonably well (and it helps if, like my college professor friend, they feel guilty about that), the only function politics serves in their lives is as a mirror that they gaze into so that they can see their own Goodness reflected back at them.
It is mostly fools who drive liberalism, at it is mostly vanity that drives the fools.
percynjpn| 9.12.12 @ 1:54AM
"The comfortable Middle Class is more liberal than you think."
That is sadly, but obviously, true. What is the percentage of the Middle Class who voted for Obummer - all the while knowing his radical, U.S.-hating history? And for that matter, how many voted for Mistah Jimmeh in '76? A large % of the Middle Class, who may be hard-working and even patriotic, are also political dupes and morons.
Philo Vaihinger | 9.11.12 @ 8:38AM
Do you think Jeffrey Lord actually believes his own bilge?
Jobe| 9.11.12 @ 8:55AM
This is your dissection and rebuttal of all that Lord has published? My God, oh, excuse me, you are one of those leftists who has voted God out of existance. Never mind!
No_BlahBlah| 9.11.12 @ 12:28PM
No need to get huffy.
o'Choom'Ba voters.
They're so cute with their middle school pranks!
RCV| 9.11.12 @ 12:26PM
Sure he does - look at his picture. Have you seen a more clueless visage?
Tom Kyba| 9.11.12 @ 12:53PM
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, we don't have your movie star visage to gaze upon.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:24PM
Yeah.
Your Muslim Boy, everytime he strays too far from his Teleprompter.
Von Mises Jr| 9.11.12 @ 8:44AM
The liberal democrats ousted themselves when they said "we all belong to government."
This is their god. It is statism. It is "collective salvation." It is the antithesis of Christianity and Judaism. It is where instead of the hierarchy of God, family and community with the government as a small component of community, it is the reverse: government who takes care of your family and neighbors through compulsion and force.
It is the police state where they play god and you are not free to worship your own God or do as you please.
CrackerHound| 9.11.12 @ 10:27AM
Very good Von Mises Jr.
I might add that the MSM, Hollywood, and popular culture have all conspired...diliberately and with forethought, to make all of this acceptable an noble.
Atheism, homosexual marriage (and other variations to come), after birth "abortions", out of wedlock births, divorce and the general dysfunction of families are now all acceptable and chic.
JP above has a point. Mainstream people, "little old ladies" , etc., have no problem embracing the leftist platform anymore. From places like Iowa to Wisconsin we see middle Americans spewing Che' Guevera worthy talking points. And it's all due to indoctrination.
If you want to see a blatant example of this at work, Check out the new "comedy" series "The New Normal" starring Ellen Barkin about a gay family just starting out. From what I've seen in stories and previews...it has everything Jeffery talks about in this article. We watch this stuff at night and are brainwashed in our schools during the day by union thug teachers.
Ohh, off topic...sorry
Wasn't that funny seeing those teachers in Chicago marching with signs that said "striking for better schools" when what they really want is a 19% pay raise. How is THAT making better schools? 19% in today's economy? are you serious? and you want to raise my taxes?
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 10:43AM
Are you the poster who linked the article on "Cultural Marxism" a couple of weeks ago? It was excellent. All you need to know about the demise of America is watch the movies Hollywood makes, listen to the music kids listen to, and observer the way the young dress, talk and act. Things are changing so fast, it is nearly impossible to know what will ensue, but it won't be pretty, and it won't even come close to resembling your Father's America. It was a nice run.
Von Mises Jr| 9.11.12 @ 12:06PM
You got it brother. It is a couple year old article on American Thinker. Glad you remembered.
That and the one about the "Animal Farm" windmill are my favorites.
No_BlahBlah| 9.11.12 @ 12:44PM
May 12, 1911
,,," my thoughts naturally went back to that great man whose name you have adopted. And I asked myself, what would Jefferson say if a number of men of the Democratic faith were gathered in the year 1911, if he were present? Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence. But the Declaration of Independence, so far as I recollect, did not mention any of the issues of the year 1911. I am constantly reminding audiences that I have the pleasure of addressing that the rhetorical introduction of the Declaration of Independence is the least part of it.,,,," Woodrow Wilson address to the Jefferson Club.
101 years ago the President of Princeton who became the Governor of New Jersey for 3 years before becoming POTUS.
Much smarter than Thomas Jefferson he was, he knew it with the certainty of conviction.
"Don't pay attention to any of that silly stuff about God and Country. That was just filler before they got to the list of grievances against good ole King George."
Von Mises Jr| 9.11.12 @ 3:24PM
Blo_NahNah,
Kennedy said that he once had assembled the greatest intellect in the history for dinner in the White House except when Jefferson dined alone.
Perhaps you should read the speeches of the arrogant and pompous ass Woody Wilson. He thought of himself as the "intelligent few" like our current Dear Leader thinks of himself. But he was either a horse's ass or just plain evil.
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 7:14PM
I like your takes. You are always bringing up the Austrians, Sowell, and Agenda 21. All good stuff!
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:26PM
It's worse than that.
They are the Antithesis of everything the Founding Fathers put in place.
Mimi | 9.11.12 @ 8:49AM
You can all come up with your own definition of MIDDLE CLASS....I myself in college had to do interviews for people to define it and write a paper. One guy said "If you don't pee in the bathtub...your middle class" !....I put it in my report...got an A!
I see a divide in values, certainly dynamic, for as we age we become more MIDDLE CLASS, and religious and have true respect for MONEY...we are always changing.
I agree with someone who posted that Romney should make an add showing the GOD VOTE...That told many of us ALL we need to know!.....The POOR Dem's....They have to twist themselves into a pretzel in full view. I thought to KICK-OUT GOD was dumb....then Israel ? A self-inflicted wound.....and put them in "LOSE BIG" zone!
83champ| 9.11.12 @ 9:08AM
I was surprised that God was in there in the first place.
Al Adab| 9.11.12 @ 10:27AM
Top ten percent; bottom ten percent. That leaves eighty percent in the middle. Top gets by without government, while the bottom cannot survive withoutit.
The hatred of the middle class comes because all too many of those continue to strive sand persevere in their lives without turning to government for help. That is the unforgivable sin to The Left for they intend to make us all wards of a paternalistic tyranny.
Ryan| 9.11.12 @ 10:53AM
Actually, there are a substantial portion in the top 10% who wouldn't be there without government propping them up, either...
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:28PM
What does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his Immortal Soul?
You are absolutely Correct.
Think: Warren Buffett.
Mike G| 9.11.12 @ 11:13AM
In addition to one showing the God vote, Romney needs another ad exploiting the "we all belong to government" tripe the Dems showed.
Jobe| 9.11.12 @ 8:57AM
I read somewhere that liberalism is a religion and its sacrament is abortion. For most of us Christians and Jews, religion is a life affirming thing. For liberals, abortion (death of humans) is the central focal point.
Stephie| 9.11.12 @ 9:04AM
As was apparent at their convention, abortion is their holy grail. What a wretched bunch of Godless freaks. I hope to God that Romney will use this and pound it home that obama is not of the light. The democrats are not of the light, freedom, love of country or family.
83champ| 9.11.12 @ 9:09AM
Wasr on women? Who's the better role model: Mia Love or Sandra Fluke?
TinaB| 9.12.12 @ 6:12AM
And death of the soul just an added benefit? I think spiritual death is the real focus now. Their leader, the Father of Lies, is on the job, roaming the earth like a lion seeking whom he can devour.
Louis Jenkins| 9.11.12 @ 8:58AM
The Democrats did themselves no favors when they took Good out, and then publicly put him back in. Go ahead mindless democrats, do what you do best. Deny God, deny the middle class, deny that which is normal and good. Maybe the cock will crow thrice for you.
ElGordo| 9.11.12 @ 9:17AM
As Romney's TV ads attack Obama's failed economy , superPACS such as Rove's Crossroads should attack Obama's character, statements, associations, etc. ;
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e.g. Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Acorn, Marxist Professors, Rezko, Blago, Frank Davis, etc.
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"electric prices will skyrocket"," you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen", " I visited 57 states, one more to go", "America only has 5% of the world's energy and it uses 25% ", "I don't have all the facts but the Cambridge police acted stupidly", "the private sector is doing just fine", "when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody", "I think at a certain point you made enough money", "in Pennsylvania they cling to their guns and bibles", etc.
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Allowing surviving babies of botched abortions to die, attempting to stop Boeing from building a plant in So. Car., In favor of Same Sex marriages, Stopped the Keystone pipeline from being built, bowing to the Saudi King, sending money to Brazil to help off shore drilling , banning off shore drilling in the Gulf, wants Israel to go back to 1967 borders, lost Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood, did not back an uprising in Iran to overthrow the mullahs, shipping guns to Mexican criminals, etc.
MK48| 9.11.12 @ 10:33AM
ElGordo..........are you TLP's twin brother....sounds like it.
Tim.......is ElGordo sending you $$$ or is he plagiarizing your posts.
Anyway keep it up there's enough sheep here that might get the message.
Tom Kyba| 9.11.12 @ 12:55PM
Big fan of sheep are you?
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:34PM
Grow Up, Tom.
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 11:07AM
You forgot two, "I don't have all the facts, but the Cambridge police acted stupidly," and "...so I know who's ass to kick." How he ever got away with the last one I will never know. Imagaine if Bush had said that!
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 11:08AM
Ooops. You did mention the first one. Sorry.
Mimi | 9.11.12 @ 12:53PM
He wants us to FORGET all that....He's runnung like he got into the race yesterday....no history what -so-ever....At least he has a bad memory or more likely he thinks he's so much smarter and we are absent a MEMORY
rlranger907| 9.11.12 @ 9:22AM
With all the straw men in Mr. Lord's column today, please, no one smoke until they've stepped outside.
Actually, this column illustrates a problem with a sector of contemporary conservatism that Mr. Lord so ably represents. Run against the culture, and you set up an irreconcilable division between people on a cultural battleground that politics will never resolve. Run on a pointed critique of the present Obama regime that has not only failed to address our economic woes, but actually exacerbated them, and you have the ability to appeal to empirical information, to persuade people in the middle, and to form a governing consensus.
But no, Mr. Lord would rather campaign against Benjamin Braddock.
Bob Grant| 9.11.12 @ 11:00AM
I think the Obama Opposition can walk and chew gum at the same time.
They can win on both fronts.
Why?...because they are essentially one and the same.
CrackerHound| 9.11.12 @ 11:16AM
So we just ignore the awfulness of Obama and ONLY talk about jobs? You know, if Obama gave a speech entitled "Why I Hate America", I feel people like you would suggest we ignore it and stay on topic. We should hammer him on the economy and jobs but everyone knows the situation is bad by now. We can afford to spend some time on Fast & Furious, You didn't build that" etc.
Ranger...the Dems are the party who decided to"run against the culture" as you put it, and team Romney was dragged reluctantly in to it. Obama had nothing else he could hold up as acheivments so DEMOCRATS (not Republicans) brought up the war on women, paying for contraception, class warfare, rich against poor, etc.
rlranger907 : "Run against the culture, and you set up an irreconcilable division between people on a cultural battleground that politics will never resolve".
Are you serious man?? A "sector of contemporary conservatives" are the group that set up these strawmen and divisive politics? You MUST be playing a cynical game here...or you are really an Obama supporter using his and the MSM's favorite tactic....start something and blame it on conservatives. Oh, and by the way...I personally am not worried about trying to leave a door open for reconciliation with statists, progressives, communists, and unionist democrats. This is a war for the future of America and that side represents extreme danger.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:36PM
Welcome aboard.
Jack London| 9.11.12 @ 9:50AM
"My audience is comprised of the people who make this country work."
Let's hope the people 'who make this country work' are more literate than Limbaugh – it's 'my audience comprises'.
As for the Lord's ludicrous take on the Graduate, I guess he hasn't seen the non-conformists who started up Google and others like it. Google 'god' and you will see he works in often mysterious ways...
Bob Grant| 9.11.12 @ 11:02AM
Google non-conformists?
You've got to be joking.
Tom Kyba| 9.11.12 @ 12:56PM
Please explain Limbaugh's lack of literacy Mr. Dickens.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 3:09PM
Wow. I've seen people respond to valid critiques by smugly pointing out spelling or grammar errors in their posts before. I have to admit, I'm a bit of a spelling and grammar Nazi myself (can't stand our tolerance for sloppiness).
But that is one obscure complaint Jack made. Even most grammar Nazis don't know that that one is wrong. And (much to my chagrin), it will probably be another example of the rules of grammar being changed to accommodate the ignorant, soon enough:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_phrase_'is_comprised_of'_acceptable
That said, Jack's "point" on the topic of the day is so out there that the grammar criticism is the highlight of the post! I honestly can't figure out how he means to criticize Lord's position with that statement.
The Avenger| 9.11.12 @ 8:07PM
My grammar teacher, God rest her soul, would cringe a your lack of understanding the subject. Sorry Jack, but you are wrong, wrong, wrong.
BackToBasics| 9.11.12 @ 9:59AM
I think everyone has immediate or extended family, friends and acquaintances, co-workers who are either conservative or liberal or middle-of-the-road. So we all know what people really think. Of the WHITE liberals I know well and other acquaintences I have talked to, if you scratch the surfae, underneath there is an anger, contempt, disbelief either in God and Jesus Christ or in the moral standards imposed by the Christian Bible. Outwardly and often enough, they can be nice enough people but they have a visceral dislike of a conservatively-believed Christianity if it comes up. They will vote for anyone who is closest to this same dislike no matter where it leads the country. Scratch the surface and hatred of Christianity and its moral guidance is at the core of their being and it is what drives WHITE ACTIVIST leftists to make politics a substitute religion in place of conservative Christianity.
No_BlahBlah| 9.11.12 @ 12:54PM
The liberal psyche projects its rage towards that which it perceives as a threat.
The threat that another individual poses to those who professes to believe in something beyond themselves that teaches universal truth?
A constant reminder that they have chosen to live their lives constantly adjusting their morals based upon expediency and greed.
It is irksome to say the least.
BackToBasics| 9.11.12 @ 6:07PM
One of the most irksome aspects is that they pressure everyone else to accept their liberalism yet at the same time make zero allowances for conservatives and Christians to speak about our own ideas. Our ideas are a threat to them.
allblues| 9.11.12 @ 1:41PM
Scratch a liberal and underneath you will find a totalitarian who isn't quite ready to get his hands bloody.
BackToBasics| 9.11.12 @ 6:08PM
Or he will get another to do his bloody and dirty work for him.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 10:26AM
Liberalism requires hatred. It is, at its most fundamental level, an attack on "enemies". All of its means - redistribution, regulation, litigation, bans, taxes - are attacks on some perceived evil. Without evil to attack, liberals have nothing to do. They need evil to attack as much as they need food to eat. Without either, liberals would cease to exist.
So they make enemies. If no real ones present themselves, they pick fights with people who don't deserve to be their enemies. They will lie, inventing fake realities to justify hatred of people, so that they can act against them. The hate is essential - the treatment of people as enemies must be justified!
And to salve their consciences, they accuse their invented enemies of the very things they do in making them enemies - lying, hypocrisy, and hate. They need to win the messaging war, so that the public joins them in their hate!
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 11:39AM
Excellent! This could be said about most narcissists, but then again, most libs ARE narcissists. Two of the biggest narcissists in history spoke last week in Charlotte. Bill and Barry.
Bill is so much better and more convincing. Of course he doesn't have the same degree of hate running through his veins as his lil protoge.
BTW, I never thought I would see it, but I finally saw someone who matched Obama's level of hate--Elizabeth Warren. How ironic that she was the inventer of "you didn't build that." Not only did Obama plagiarize her, but acc. to Rush, he basically stole Carter's speech from 1980 when he spoke last week in Charlotte. Pretty bush-league, and how low do you have to go to nab crap from Carter of all people!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 2:26PM
They tell us so much by whom they choose to plagiarize from; Biden chose UK Socialist Neil Kinnock (to the point where he altered his own biography to fit Kinnock).
Petronius| 9.11.12 @ 10:55AM
The litany of Liberal tropes hasn't changed since the Leveler Papers of 1640. The Left is an a cultural pustule of nihilistic rage obsessed over the vicissitudes and requirements for Success and Prosperity. They refuse to be obliged in any way. It's about what they do not want imposed upon them: discipline and effort. The social and economic agendas are canards. It's the reason George Wallace was shot. He would have deputized every blue collar Bubba and paid them a bounty to shoot hippies on sight. He said, "I got a couple 4 letter words for 'em: S O A P and W O R K." And the Left know there are still a lot of people in Middle America who would dearly love to see that happen. The reason it does not and will not is that The left now has total control of the legal establishment and no risk of any reprisal through public uprising. So Middle Class Americans will continue to lose all we have built until these parasites have stripped the nation until Nothing of value remains. Then we will see who can survive.
Who Knows?| 9.11.12 @ 11:01AM
Got integrity?
Liberals are post integrity. It is SO blasé!
Conservatives ARE (all about) integrity. Look up the word; it is essentially “sustain”, in action.
God as patriotism, religion and capitalism all embody creating and sustaining, NOT destroying---that’s the business of liberals, unwittingly, or (for most) not.
What does capitalism mean? “Cap” is “head”, and seems to me to indicate using the brain housed therein to---create and sustain order, because survival is the prime directive.
Patriotism, likewise, is all about continually re-creating and sustaining the group of humans literally embodying the unique country of the USA.
A true religion that uses the concept of God to maintain order, the integrity of sustaining and creating responsible individuals, is also notable.
Liberals?
Shiva, the destroyer, in action.
Beware of “kings” bearing gifts!
Graduate from such black hole stupidity, if you want to survive.
scotchieguy| 9.11.12 @ 11:52AM
I disagree with your definition of capitalism. Seems to me, it means more than just creating and sustaining order, but creating prosperity, inventing better ways to live, improving things. What could be a better example of that then what we have created? Europe, on the other hand, seems content to just keep things from falling apart, and funny, that is exactly what is happening over there.
sickofit5| 9.11.12 @ 11:23AM
How do you get the middle-class vote? Turn them into the lower (economically speaking) class by crashing the economy (shovel ready jobs and Obamacare) and stick the government tit in their mouths.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 11:57AM
The holier than thou attitude is appalling - as if you own patriotism, the work ethic and faith.
You aren't any better than anyone else. The sooner you get that, the sooner America can move forward together.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 3:13PM
Once again, hypocrisy.
It is the Left that unduly claims to own things (especially things produced by others). They claim to own "fairness" despite advocating lots of unequal treatment. They claim to own racism, social justice, opportunity, and the welfare of the poor, despite consistently making each of these problems worse.
And they assign us the things no one would want to own - racism, sexism greed, evil.
Who are they to accuse us of falsely defining ourselves, when they misdefine both themselves and us?
We don't need to assign positions to you. You claim them yourselves. We just recognize your actions.
Bob Grant| 9.11.12 @ 4:30PM
Perp,
I refuse to jump off the cliff with you. There will be no "moving forward together".
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:40PM
We do own Patriotism, and after watchin that Clusterfck of a Convention?
I'm pretty sure we own GOD, as well.
Seek| 9.11.12 @ 12:29PM
There goes Jeffrey Lord again -- drawing a caricature as opposed to understanding character. The notion that liberals "hate" the middle class is filled with more holes than a wagon of Wisconsin swiss cheese. For starters, the middle class is simply too broad to correspond to any one political ideology. The software industry, the driving force of our economy, for example, was and remains almost exclusively the province of people who are NOT part of Rush Limbaugh's audience, and indeed, who detest the man. Moreover, class is a concept substantially different from culture. Many "middle-class" Americans consist of swingers, homosexuals, hippies, metalheads, Goths, nightowls and other cultures or subcultures -- in other words, the very sorts of "deviants" that Mr. Lord professes to detest.
Thinking people will recognize such flaws in his critique, which is about on the level of what one expect from, say, Michael Savage or Ann Coulter. Unfortunately, radicals of the Right, baying and shrieking for liberal blood, aren't likely to make fine distinctions.
Believe me, this mentality will hurt us come Election Day.
jothepro| 9.11.12 @ 2:31PM
Seek, When you post garbage and try to make it sound like you are like us, you only show the colors that liberals like you have been showing us forever..How can I tell you are a liberal?condescension
Seek| 9.11.12 @ 7:06PM
I'm a conservative realist. And you are a conservative who lives in a fantasyland. If you want garbage, go read the bestseller from Ann Coulter. I don't feel like having conseravtives marginalized even further on account of people like you. I feel like winning this time.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 3:15PM
Seek claims that "the middle class is simply too broad to correspond to any one political ideology", ergo it's impossible to claim that a group like "liberals" hate it. Yet his party consistently claims that conservatives hate it!
By the way, I'm in the software industry, as are many conservatives I know.
Stkman| 9.11.12 @ 3:26PM
Seek,
First of all the energy sector is much larger than the software sector, in terms of jobs and trade dollars. The energy sector is mainly in conservative areas, Texas, Oklahoma, Alaska, Louisiana, the Dakota's. I'm in Texas, and yes we have homosexuals here, along with all the other groups that you have mentioned and it is you Seek who would be surprised at just how conservative many of them are. Most people realize there is much more to live and how you get through it than your sexual preference or how you cut your hair or dress. All of us have to eat and nayone with any sense at all knows that the Democrats have no plan on how to keep America afloat while at the same time making sure her citizens have jobs and food.
As for Michael Savage, it is you who should understand just why his audience is so large and becoming larger. You liberals should understand that the population of this country feel it has been pushed into a corner by you liberals. We will do what any other animal does when backed in a corner, and you liberals are not going to like it. You're going to find out the hard way that you aren't even 10% of the population. You're just louder than the other 90%. Well, it's our turn to be heard.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:41PM
He's an Idiot.
Best left Ignored.
Seek| 9.11.12 @ 7:14PM
I listen to Savage, too. He's entertaining, but he's also a demagogue. I take him with a grain of salt.
A larger point: What is it with certain conservatives these days? Are they going through their Terrible Twos? They seem utterly unwilling to distinguish between a friendly critic and an unfriendly one. Anyone who dares to criticize a fellow conservative, even to correct course (as Bill Buckley did regularly), instantly gets tarred as a "liberal." Or was Buckley himself just a liberal in disguise?
As for TLP, he's best ignored. I don't think he's capable of posting a message that isn't either a threat or an insult.
Mimi | 9.11.12 @ 1:04PM
The truth is....there is NO middle class in America ! As a whole we don't think that way. We could be High one day and low in a heartbeat...(especially with "O" running the show).
Basically we're all moving on up...and working hard. WHO CARES ???
Burlington| 9.11.12 @ 1:40PM
Middle class----It's in their playbook, Alinsky's Rules for Radicals---You can't do it without the middle class.
Bill8472| 9.11.12 @ 1:41PM
The Left doesn't like the middle class because:
1. Marx said the middle class was the oppressive class;
2. People recognize that middle-class people have developed a valuable sense of priorities called "middle class (or bourgeois) values." They don't like a set of values that most people accept as valid, particularly where those middle-class values don't put a premium on artistic values;
3. Artists and those who are wannabe artists (called "bohemians" in middle-class parlance) LOVE to "epater le bourgeoisie." They sometimes succeed and they LOVE it when they do.
4. People who want to do whatever they please find any set of values oppressive. Since middle-class values are very popular, middle class values are seen as oppressive;
For these reasons, middle-class values are seen as undesirable by certain types of people, and those people have dislike for those values, and express their dislike as contempt.
Screw 'em. They can have Piss Christ and I'll take liberty and equality.
AmericanCynic| 9.11.12 @ 1:51PM
"Which is another way of explaining just why it is today's Democrats -- the very embodiment of the American Left -- literally hate the American middle class."
Such B.S.
This Liberal (who mostly votes Dem), served 6 years in U.S.M.C., and currently resides in the "Middle Class;" begs to differ.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 2:29PM
If I might, what was your MOS?
JP| 9.11.12 @ 3:56PM
I knew a few liberal Marines. All were officers who did their time and left the Corps running.
AmericanCynic| 9.11.12 @ 5:25PM
I was a registered Republican at the time and had voted for Reagan. I was also a non-com.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:44PM
You sound like a Section 8er to me.
What's the matter, tough guy?
Gays in the Military came too late for you?
AmericanCynic| 9.11.12 @ 5:26PM
Started as an 03 and then became an 04, what was yours?
Nick| 9.11.12 @ 7:58PM
What is that, in jarhead speak, AC? Just curious.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 9:45PM
MOS is Military Occupational Specialty. In the Marine Corps, they are designated by a four digit number, the first two being occupational field, the second two being a specialty within the field. 03 is the Infantry field, 04 is logistics.
Nick| 9.12.12 @ 12:08AM
Thanks, Mr. Constantine.
I'm an Army veteran of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. And, I did mean to which jobs AC was referring. I knew the each branch uses different designations.
I was a 68D, Helicopter Powertrain Repair, or, Prop & Rotor, as our squad was called.
Do you remember "Liberal Reader"? Me, and few others nailed him, when he tried to claim he was an Army vet, by asking him what do the letters "MOS" mean. He replied, "Military Occupational Strategy"!!
Semper Fidelis, sir.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 9:48PM
I was an 08. I'm going to guess by the change in MOS that you were originally 0302, and changed MOS at the time of augmentation or extension on active duty, and by casting a vote, that you would have been on active duty in the mid to late 1980s. Do I have this correct?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 9:51PM
Pardon me, but I see in a separate response you described yourself as a non-com. I've never heard a Marine NCO use the term.
cicero| 9.11.12 @ 3:03PM
This election is the Republicans to lose. If they spend all of their time pointing to the Dems, and stating the obvious, they will lose. As Reagan showed, they need only to announce their own principles, contrast that with the Dems' positions, and the voting public will give them victory by a landslide. If they neff naw around on the premise that they want to play it safe, and not alienate minor factions of the electorate, no one will turn out.
If they are given a mandate to govern, andd they do what they did in 2000 and for the ensuing 6 years, they will be throuwn out on their ears. The middle class cannot afford 4 more years of Obama and the Dems. They also cannot afford to elect an unprincipled Republican administration.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 5:50PM
Unlike you, I don't spend my time worrying about what they MIGHT do.
I spend my time working to get the Boy named after Mohammed's Horse, and his America Hating Marie Antoinette, the Fck outta the White House.
Do you remember what she said to her POS Husband, at last Year's 911 Memorial?
She said: "All this, for a Flag?"
That's what I worry about.
And, you should, too.
FOCUS!
One thing at a time.
JimH| 9.11.12 @ 3:20PM
This attitude is nothing new. There have always been those who considered themselves to be an artistic sensitive elite unsoiled by practical money grubbing considerations. This sort of personality naturally gravitates to the Dems. I’m sure back in the time of the pharaohs they were around complaining about how much was being spent on chariots and how the hieroglyphics were so old fashioned.
JP| 9.11.12 @ 3:54PM
I think many people here should read Charles Murray's "Coming Apart". It is a demographic study of 50 years of American social, economic, and political life. It will change your preconceived notions about the "Middle Class". The Middle Class (or what Murray calls the Cognitive Class) is solidly Blue. The demographic group is highly educated, they run most of our businesses, do most of our R&D and are form the most stable families in the US. But, while they live conservative lives, their politics are very Progressive. And they love Obama. The most uneducated but politically conservative people in the US are Republicans. It's a sad fact. But you cannot correct what you don't see.
BackToBasics| 9.11.12 @ 11:23PM
Murray's a progressive libertarian himself so it's no wonder his book should reflect what he believes. The line about politically conservative but uneducated Republicans is more a testament to myopic research than fact. A lot of progressives and liberals think more highly of themselves than they should. They are caught up in a they-don't-know-what-they-don't-know trap that precludes them from good judgement of others' character and skills and intelligence even when doing "factual" research. Often unwittingly, but sometimes purposefully, the research they do is tainted by their overarching view that "progressives" are smarter than conservatives. The line about conservative Republicans shows their bias that they want to call a "study."
Bill8472| 9.12.12 @ 9:34AM
There's a bit of a logical fallacy in your reading of Murray's take on Repbublicans and the uneducated. Yes, there are uneducated people who are Republicans (hopefully a large number of registered voters among them!), but that doesn't mean that Republicans are uneducated. It just means that Republican thinking has an appeal that crosses economic class lines.
Conan| 9.11.12 @ 4:20PM
One of Chris Matthews little sayings out of the blue was "This riminds me of the scene in the Graduate where the guy says plastics" I guess I wasn't on Mathews anti-middle class wavelength but of course it makes sense what he means now.
Controse| 9.11.12 @ 4:27PM
I am about as big a Jeffrey Lord fan as there is but I believe he is building his argument on an easily shaken foundation when he tags "The Graduate" as the early, glaring manifestation of liberal middle class antipathy. The hero and heroine could just as easily be seen as the age old protagonist of the age old story of generation youth rebellion against generation parent set in the simpler times that was America pre-Vietnam war. The American liberal left are Bolshevik wannabes pure and simple. A new world needs to be coined. How about neoBolshevik? The once proud Russian culture was impoverished via old fashion breaking and entering theft on an unimaginable scale. We are being impoverished via a new newfangled wealth transference via heartfelt entitlements for the less fortunate. Of course members of the Democrat Party hate the middle class. That is where the money is. That is where the morality is.
Dave Williams| 9.11.12 @ 6:49PM
I am a solid member of the middle class, and a proud and out atheist. The DemonRats are moronic on fiscal policy and worse on domestic policy, and I wouldn't vote for King Zero for a million dollars, BUT...their moment of common sense on god was a real breath of fresh air. There is no more evidence (to say nothing of proof) for the existence of god than there is for unicorns, Santa Claus, or the tooth fair.
Bill8472| 9.12.12 @ 9:37AM
Can you explain what there is to be proud of in being an atheist? I mean, taking the position that there is no God doesn't seem like one of those transcendent thingies that a person would take pride in. Just to be fair, I also don't think that there is any reason to be proud of the fact that one believes in God, either. It's just a matter of belief.
Now, if you had been Airborne qualified, or had run a successful business for a couple of decades, providing yourself and your employees with a living, THOSE things are among the things one could be proud of. But belief, or lack of it? Pride?
Dave Williams| 9.11.12 @ 6:57PM
...whoops, tooth fairy.
Seek| 9.11.12 @ 7:03PM
Everyone in the South was a Democrat, whether they supported or opposed the Klan. For the record, it was Northern Democrats who fought the Klan, and at risk to their careers or even lives. Moreover, "Democrat" and "liberal" not only are not synonymous, but in the context of Southern politics until the 1970s, they usually meant the opposite.
The worst thing about this stupid, disingenuous cherry-picking of facts by Red State Culture War types is that unwittingly ratifies the Left without even knowing it. By kowtowing to the idea that "racism" must be eliminated from American life, we tactitly agree to scrub conservative websites, publications and think tanks clean of "racism." The Left wins without raising a hand. And they're laughing at us the whole time.
Enough already with this nonsense about "liberal racism." It diverts us utterly from the real issue: The Democrats should be opposed because it is anti-white, not because it is anti-black. Let the blacks do their own public relations.
C. S. P. Schofield| 9.12.12 @ 3:37AM
The Radical Intellectual Left hates the middle class because it is made up of The Workers, and The Workers left them at the alter after World War II. The Radical intellectuals spent a LOT of time after World War I fantasizing about a Socialist Future in which The Workers would live in subsidized housing, commute on public transportation, and spend their free time Morris Dancing, going to lectures , and listening to Mahler. And for a while, during the depression, it seemed like The Workers were with them.
After World War II, with FDR appointees running the government, it seemed to the Radical Intellectuals that they were at the dawn of a New Day. They were all ready to spit on their hands and get to work, just like their spiritual cousins in England.
But The Workers had either spent the last five years being marched around in uniform or working in 'essential industry' at good wages. They had had enough or regimentation, and had gotten a better offer. They wanted nothing to do with Bauhause worker housing, public transportation, and lectures. They wanted cars with tailfins, a house in Levittown, and a TV.
And the Radical Intellectuals were left at the alter.
Petronius| 9.12.12 @ 10:53PM
And the left responded by outlawing V8's and social advancement for the Workers. As to TV, there's nothing on broadcast networks they don't control.
OKC08GT500| 9.13.12 @ 5:17PM
The demonrats want to destroy the middle class because they know that the main resistance to the establishment of a socialist dictatorship will come from the middle class.