i'm not sorry i agree with ted rall, again

Published on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 by Ted Rall
Confessions of a Cultural Elitist
Win or Lose, Kerry Voters Are Smarter Than Bush Voters

by Ted Rall

Democratic hand wringing is surrealy out of hand. No one is criticizing the morally incongruous Kerry for running against a war he voted for while insisting that he would have voted for it again. Party leaders have yet to consider that NAFTA, signed into law under Clinton, may have cost them high-unemployment Ohio. No, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, darling of the "centrist" Democratic Leadership Council, blames something else: the perception "in the heartland" that Democrats are a "bicoastal cultural elite that is condescending at best and contemptuous at worst to the values that Americans hold in their daily lives."
Firstly, living in the sticks doesn't make you more American. Rural, urban or suburban--they're irrelevant. San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro district is every bit as red, white and blue as the Texas panhandle. But if militant Christianist Republicans from inland backwaters believe that secular liberal Democrats from the big coastal cities look upon them with disdain, there's a reason. We do, and all the more so after this election.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1110-25.htm

yeah, i'm a cultural elitist, it's a big part of what make me such proud far fringe lefty :)

From the references, he's obviously from Dayton, Ohio (me, too). I did a twenty-year sentence there (euphemistically known as "my childhood"), got one year off for good behavior, and went to an East coast university, and never, ever went back.

I am a liberal intellectual elite. After my years in Ohio, I have every right to be.

than what I've been seeing in the intellectual level from Americans as well. They've given up rational thought and have replaced it with belief. In a country such as ours with all of the educational options available they've decided to base their entire sphere of knowledge on one book, a book that is open to many interpretations. That is not conducive to a healthy atmosphere in American Politics.