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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]m'eh, she's not saying anything I haven't read here a hundred times already.There is a visceral disdain for middle America among many people here. So much, and so common, that I can't tell if it's a legit post or not. Look at some of the pics in some of the other threads about toning down the hostility. There's actually a photo of a guy holding a sign that says F*ck Middle America". That seems pretty legit to me.

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Yeah, how do you tell if it's a troll or not, haha? You can see the same stuff in virtually every post that touches anything related to class, Ivy schools, even driving habits! Urbanites are some catty mofos that like to [b]cast asparagus[/b] on people from flyover country. [/quote]

That's a flipping hilarious autocorrect, I think.

"I toss my asparagus at you, peon."

On another note, there seems to be a concerted effort to cast the Democrat Party as snide and superior elitists. Dems have their problems, but this does not describe not the bulk of the party.

Does anyone have any leads on whether this is a concerted part of Republican talking points? I'm serious -- it has really ramped up, both with overgeneralization criticisms and apparent sockpuppets.

What's up?[/quote]
I didn't realize how elitists the urban liberals were until I started reading DCUM. (And the disdain, too, even as demonstrated in the post above- what is it that anytime someone has a different opinion than you, they're accused of spitting out Republican talking points? The implication is that we can't think for ourselves.)

For starters, stop castigating successful and educated career people as failures simply because they don't make $200k. When we try to explain that type of thing to the liberal snobs, they double down and start calling $100k earners "losers." The irony of the whole thing is that while the snobs put down average workers (forget $100k...I'm talking $40k) as rednecks, flyover ignoramuses, etc., they defend irresponsible people on welfare who have five illegitimate children and no way to support them.

[b]Why do liberals look down upon hard-working middle Americans who support their families and defend to the death those who don't even work for a living and live off taxpayer largesse[/b]?[/quote]

I was wondering about this too, and I've got a working theory. Perhaps these liberals see the working class middle America types as being similar to them in some significant or visceral ways (whether it's family background, work ethic, skin color, etc.). So the fact that these people haven't achieved in the ways that these liberals have achieved makes the liberals think less of them. ("If I manage to succeed, why the hell can't you?"). It builds contempt.

However, they see the non-workers who survive largely on government subsidies as being "other" in relation to them. They can't relate to these people and have nothing but the lowest expectations for them (if any). The liberals don't regard these people as fellow autonomous humans possessing their own agency and will. What they feel for these people may be closer to pity (like you might feel toward a seemingly helpless stray dog).[/quote]

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