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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of this anti-elitism only succeeds in showing that we're out-of-touch with a certain part of America. How are they arguing that that's the REAL America and ours isn't?  And when it strays into anti-intellectualism it's downright scary.

People like me, who are urban and educated but have modest, middle-income families and depend on government funding for public service-oriented work, are being hurt by Tea Party attacks, not the real fat cats still laughing all the way to the bank.[/quote]

The problem is that people like you (and like me) are still only about 15-20% of the American population.  The other 80-85% of the population is still rather outside of our bubble.  Let's face it, the educated, urban, upper-middle to rich classes are still somewhat insulated from what the majority of Americans are like.  And nowhere is it more apparent than on DCUM where those making $250K and above are whining about being middle class without realizing that they are in the top 5-10% of the economic scale and nowhere close to middle class.  Those people have no clue what middle class really is.  That's kind of the point of the quiz and obviously this thread.  The quiz points out a lot of the disparities between classes.[/quote]

Very well put. It reminds me of an Alice Waters story (that i'm sure I will garble to an extent): she was at some event that was quite long and, behind doors, the staff ordered themselves pizza. Waters saw them eating it and berated them for eating such terrible food when the food she was advocating they eat was her typical food: seasonal, fresh, organic - and, oh yes, hard to find and afford for lots of people, including the people she was berating. Anti-intellectualism is incredibly stupid, but I think it's good for those of us in a privileged bubble to know what the average American's life is like. Lots of us don't realize how fabulously lucky we are.[/quote]

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