Carville on urbanist thinking—- he also knows that 18% of the people elect 52% of the Senate and there is where the legislative power lies. Great rant and a lesson the Dims are just too dim to capture:
<<<<<<<<I want to give you an example of the problem here. A few weeks ago, Binyamin Appelbaum, an economics writer for the New York Times, posted a snarky tweet about how LSU canceled classes for the National Championship game. And then he said, do the “Warren/Sanders free public college proposals include LSU, or would it only apply to actual schools?”
You know how fucking patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country? First, LSU has an unusually high graduation rate, but that’s not the point. It’s the goddamn smugness. This is from a guy who lives in New York and serves on the Times editorial board and there’s not a single person he knows that doesn’t pat him on the back for that kind of tweet. He’s so fucking smart.
Appelbaum doesn’t speak for the Democratic Party, but he does represent the urbanist mindset. We can’t win the Senate by looking down at people. The Democratic Party has to drive a narrative that doesn’t give off vapors that we’re smarter than everyone or culturally arrogant.>>>>>
These kinds of guys:
mediaite.com
Carville’s right. It’s the non-urban who got Trump elected.
However, once a person adopts urbanist thinking, it will never be discarded. Something happens.
My grandfather, a great man, taught me early on to treat indians and Presidents alike, with respect (indians because I grew up in Mexico and there were still indians around who were very poor, didn’t speak Spanish - they were looked down upon). |
