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To: koan who wrote (753576)	11/19/2013 1:21:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577586

Today's rich liberals have way bigger mansions.

To: koan who wrote (753576)	11/19/2013 1:45:26 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577586

your hero's house, paul Krugman

To: koan who wrote (753576)	11/20/2013 3:42:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577586

... At some point, Democrats became the party of small-town people who think they’re too big for their small towns*. It is hard to say how it happened: Perhaps it is that Republicans’ primary appeal is to something small-towners take for granted (tradition), while Democrats’ is to something that small-towners are condemned for lacking (diversity). Both appeals can be effective, but it is only the latter that incites people to repudiate the culture in which they grew up. Perhaps it is that at universities–through which pass all small-town people aiming to climb to a higher social class–Democratic party affiliation is the sine qua non of being taken for a serious, non-hayseed human being. For these people, liberalism is not a belief at all. No, it’s something more important: a badge of certain social aspirations. That is why the laments of the small-town leftists get voiced with such intemperance and desperation. As if those who voice them are fighting off the nagging thought: If the Republicans aren’t particularly evil, then maybe I’m not particularly special. “A badge of certain social aspirations,” yes, but something else too. Liberalism and affiliation with the Democratic Party, for these people, is less a series of policy ideas than an almost-religious belief system*. Distancing oneself from heretics thus takes on special importance. And how better to show your fellow believers that you are Good than to use the most important news outlet in the entire world to run down your relatives who believed Bad things? — “Op-Eds as Social Positioning: or, I’m Better than Those Hicks!”, Sonny Bunch in the Washington Free Beacon.* Read the whole thing.™ .... pjmedia.com

To: koan who wrote (753576)

11/20/2013 6:26:34 PM

From: average joe

Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1577586

Wow epicure really let you have it both barrels!

To: koan who wrote (238234)	11/20/2013 2:41:38 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) of 238282

So are there no Jewish plumbers? Get off it Koan. College is great, for some, but it's a luxury many can ill afford, and plenty of people don't want to go. We can get all pie in the sky, and talk about how it would be fabulous for everyone, but I teach some students who feel that school is torture, and more school (college, for example) would be horrific. They'd rather get shot in the army than go to college. Perhaps you don't know many people like that, but I know a lot. My circle of acquaintances is large, and I know everyone from families of migrant workers, to captains of industry, and, guess what? The needs of the people I know are different. And I know plenty of people who just aren't very smart. 100- it's the average IQ. And that's not very smart. And there are plenty of people below that. They aren't "bad" people, but they'll probably never learn calculus, or be able to write a great, or even good, essay, or analyze a Shakespearean sonnet- and that's ok. Not everyone needs to go to college and be booksmart, and many people don't WANT to do it. It's snobby and effete to think everyone has to be on the same track, because they don't. And what's more, they can't be. A 300 pound linebackers can't be a ballerina. An asthmatic with poor eyesight can't be an astronaut. We ARE limited to some extent by our genes. To ignore that is willful stupidity, which I find more annoying than genetic stupidity. And it's not MY standards- it's the UC. They've set the standards. I am not really worried about those standards- even though they will keep my youngest out of the UC. But she's kind of stupid. She's my kid, and I love her, but she's not very smart. She'll do great in life, since she's cute, and incredibly energetic and athletic- and she gets more job offers than my more book smart children, so who cares? Life isn't one size fits all. And people use their minds without college, Koan. That's some major bigotry you have going on in your mind, if you think people can't grow their minds on their own. Some of the most original thinkers evolved outside of the college environment. In fact they probably became original thinkers because they weren't in the college environment...