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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.

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?[/quote]
Is this the post you are talking about? 
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/641523.page

How do you know the political affiliations of the posters?[/quote]
Yes, yes....that's the thread.

I figure they were liberals just by the way they responded to the OP's argument - that liberals lost the election because they are out of touch with average workers, and make them ignored and like losers when educated people making $100k or families making $200k act as if those decidedly above-average incomes are barely allowing them to get by. How, the point was, does that make the "real" family, HHI about $55k, feel?

Instead of acknowledging that there was a point there, these well-paid professionals came out swinging, calling the people in the low six-figure bracket losers, screw-ups, failures, etc. No recognition whatsover on the point just made - that when liberals don't realize how they make aversge earners feel like shit, they lose elections. Who else but liberals would have responded that way, since the message was directed at liberals?[/quote]
So your predisposition is to assume that it's liberals who don't care about people with 5-figure incomes? Okay, but that's not consistent with the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism, like at all.

FWIW, I'm pretty liberal, and I've got a high 6 figure HHI and supported OP's point many times. Ironically, I thought the people continuing to cry poor at $200K HHI and calling OP a loser were either trolls, self-centered jerks, or the courteous ones were conservatives :)[/quote]
I agree that traditionally, the underpinnings of liberalism was to care about five-figure earners, but there's been enough recent examples to throw that into doubt, what with all the nasty remarks about rednecks and flyover country. I see you are one of the "traditional liberals," and I'm glad there are still some around.

But I still think it was liberals who were castigating middle-class earners because that the claim of that arrogant behavior was directed at liberals - and refuted with quite a showing of defensiveness. If it were conservatives posting, they wouldn't have turned themselves inside out to disprove a complaint about liberals. [/quote]

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