This spectacle of John McCain and Hillary Clinton labeling Barack Obama condescending and elitist because of his comments that rural townspeople are bitter because for the past 25 years various administrations have betrayed them, so they cling to guns, religion, is that age old status quo ploy to never legitimize issues affecting those marginalized and subordinated.
The premise is as long as issues are not giving legitimacy by those whose voice isn't easily discredited and marginalized, such as a Presidential Candidate, then the issue is unseen, unheard and invalid.
The real condescension is this latest obscenity of John McCain and Hillary Clinton going on the record with the assertion that economic hard times and provincial reaction is a choice and life style for those rural people Obama spoke of being bitter.
Economic hardship and all it's underpinnings is as much a lifestyle issue as claimed by McCain and Clinton as that sham confederate slave owning state rights defense. The real elitism is listen to those terrified of class war ruminate that the aggregate issues Barack Obama spoke of rural townspeople clinging to religion, guns being anti-immigration and antipathetic to unfamiliarity is some sort of birth-right value mystique that is sacrosanct from any sort of critique.
By Apropos
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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