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2006-03-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

"Red State Snobbery"....from the New Republic, naturally.....

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 you know the Left > Dubya is despicable LeftLiberal, not to be compared to Motherly Conservative Lefties. America under Dubya-GOP is a Socialist nation nation moving towards Socialism, Communism and OWG but God help us all, the DemoLefties don NOT know how to stop it. All Clintonian Fascist = Half-a-Commie Male Brute Amerikans can and must fight and die for an American Nation, State, and Global Empire they must afterwards unilater give up = forcibly surrender to OWG and non/anti-American nations ergo vote for the Dems in 2006-2008. D*** YOU, Dubya, you FASCIST LEFTIE FEDERALIST SOCIALIST LAISSEZ FAIRE TOTALITARIAN, REPUBLICAN EMPIRE OF THE UNION OF THE CONFEDERACY DOMINION, ......@ HIDE!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-03-25 00:53|| 2006-03-25 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 To the unknown author:

Generally speaking, it makes good medical sense to lance the boil when it gets ripe. Yeah, that great big sucker between your ears. Do it. Then the pain will go away.

Posted by Jans Snomble4884 2006-03-25 01:17|| 2006-03-25 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 How well I know people like this writer. I too left the stuffy conformity of their "individualism", their perfectly manicured lawns, their being "at multicultural one" with their maids and drug dealers. How suffocatingly similar they are in their piety and celebration of dysfunction.

There is a world full of interesting people out there - and while I love many people like this writer - how tired and worn out I find the repetitiveness of their one track thought. They boast of travel to everywhere but I often wonder why they bother. Is it really possible to travel the world over and see nothing but what they left behind? Sure, the food is good in France, the people in India are colorful. But they see nothing but the same thing you can see in any blue state suburb.

Gag.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-25 01:28|| 2006-03-25 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Cultures-of-entitlement inevitably lead to deficit spending, and a politics of perpetuation of debt. And any attempt to apply the affordability principle against the entitlement, inevitably leads to civil disorder. Check out this French website for pictorial evidence of a sick culture.

http://www.france-echos.com/actualite.php?cle=8851

Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-25 07:11|| 2006-03-25 07:11|| Front Page Top

#5 He wrote "...how much their mau-mauing of blue staters is, well, Maoist..."

Granted I'm just a red state bubba, but I don't understand the mixed metaphor here. Weren't the Mau-Maus Kenyan terrorists who favored the machete to engage their opponents in reasoned discourse? While Mao was the embodiment of the Totalitarian communist state? Someone help me out...

Posted by Fodamage 2006-03-25 08:01|| http://foreignobjectdamage.blogspot.com/]">[http://foreignobjectdamage.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-25 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Fodamage, yep, the original mau-mau were bad news. But usually when "our betters in the political classes" (their self-image, not to be confused with reality) use the term it means to loudly attack or denounce with the aim of getting your opposition to shut up.

I think he just likes the alliteration, unless it's some kind of clever allusion to the Cultural Revolution. But I think I'm being generous on that second point....

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-25 08:23|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-03-25 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 As one of the redneck inhabitants of blue states, (PA, MD, MA, CA) I can state with confidence that the reference is to Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers. The Flak Catchers are government welfare workers, not military personnel of any persuasion. If you have not read this book, you will enjoy it. It shows how little the blue states have changed in some ways, but how thankful we can be for the Roe effect. Very funny.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-25 08:40|| 2006-03-25 08:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Indeed, NS. On both counts.

The author totally missed (or wanted to bypass) Hewitt's point: i.e. that he was criticizing troop actions and presence in Iraq without having any first hand knowledge or a Clue(tm).

Posted by lotp 2006-03-25 08:49|| 2006-03-25 08:49|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm really starting to think that instead of waiting for the blue counties and cities to secede, we should just expel them from the Union. Outside of ports, there is very little industrial capacity left in the blue zones. Almost all of them are revenue sinks instead of revenue sources. New Orleans was a big clue. We lost a major city and the economy didn't blink. I don't think that the same would have been true if we had lost Silicon Valley or Raleigh-Durham.

The blue areas typically have European-level fertility rates and unskilled work forces. An elite of Eloi are ruling masses of unruly Morlochs. Maybe they can join the EU after we kick them out.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-03-25 12:18|| 2006-03-25 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 If I recall correctly, the author was the fellow who wrote the "I don't support the troops" editorial. I think it's him because I remember Hewitt asking him things like "do you own a gun" and "do you know anyone who's in the armed services".

The guy's striking the "Oh! I'm so put upon" pose for his liberal bretheren. Nothing more to it.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-25 12:43|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-25 12:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, he's the one.

Posted by lotp 2006-03-25 12:49|| 2006-03-25 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 11A5S, If you think Silicon Valley isn't blue, you'd better look at the congress critters it sends to DC, Eschoo, Lantos, Lofgren, Stark; Anti-American Commies all in my book.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-25 13:15|| 2006-03-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#13 It was Joel Stein who wrote the "I don't support the troops" editorial. His schtick is flippant nihilism.

Liberals don't need to know any NASCAR drivers, but they should at least know that it's capitalized.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-03-25 13:15|| 2006-03-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#14 You're right. Chait is the New Republic guy who wrote that he hates George Bush.

Posted by lotp 2006-03-25 13:23|| 2006-03-25 13:23|| Front Page Top

#15 I dunno, NS. I'm just not as ideological as a lot of the folks here, which is one of the reasons I've curtailed my participation at Rantburg (after I was attacked for posting an article written by a (gasp!) ideologically impure author even thought the information content was good). The folks in SV are capitalists. While I admit a lot of them are leftists, I don't see them really having a lot in common with the urban elites. They might be allies. I like having allies, especially smart, laissez faire ones.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-03-25 13:23|| 2006-03-25 13:23|| Front Page Top

#16 So he admits he's a commie, eh?

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-03-25 13:30|| 2006-03-25 13:30|| Front Page Top

#17 11A5S, You've been missed.

I've lived there. It's just as blue as SF. Sure, they've got TJ Rogers and the Hoover Institution, but Stanford is as blue as it gets and the SJ Merkey News is no better than the SF Comical. I agree, they ought to be allies, but they aren't. It's more of a city - country divide, and Silicon Valley is California urban.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-25 13:31|| 2006-03-25 13:31|| Front Page Top

#18 I've lived there too. NS is right, unfortunately.

Posted by lotp 2006-03-25 13:32|| 2006-03-25 13:32|| Front Page Top

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