Re: Re: Red State Babylon
On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
Dumbest thing I’ve read all month. Christ, I’m a socialist and
even I viscerally recoil with a snarl at a sermon from the upper
west side about how much morally superior they are to those awful
hicks in the flyover states. ‘Tude like this is why the liberals
lost the culture wars. Thank malatesta I live in northern Nevada.
I’d take an afternoon with a mormon roads department truck driver
over this jerkoff snob any day of the week. “It’s so unjust”.
Waah waaa. Thanks for driving blue-collar middle america into the
arms of the fascists, dickhead.
Uh, it’s Wolcott. I think it’s a joke, at least in part.
The reality-based portion of the joke, however, is that the “blue
states” have lower divorce rates (and maybe murder rates, haven’t
checked it) than the “red states.” Which is one reason why Garance
Francke-Ruta astutely pointed out that “values” voters are voting
aspirations (to prosperity & stability), not reality.
Doug