Yes, you are the bad guys.
I disagree, though, that Bill Clinton shouldn’t have been impeached.
And Steven Hayward asks “Why are the baddies so bad?”
[Thursday-afternoon update]
“Who are the ‘elites,’ anyway?“
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Somebody has been airbrushing the inside of David Brook’s bubble with silver paint and polishing it to a fine sheen apparently…
I’ve read an article tracing the demise of the old-style Democrat party (which was wildly racist and corrupt but full of normal folks) to two shifts. In the aftermath of Reagan and GW Bush’s victories. Biden, the Clintons, and others decided that being soft on crime was killing their party at the polls, so they swung hard in the other direction and campaigned on locking up “super predators”. Now they’ve swung back again and are filling the streets with murderers and thieves.
The other move regarded fundraising. They were determined not to be outspent again and started heavily courting Wall Street, pandering to the ultra-rich who had lots of money to throw around, and who always feared that Democrats would try to tax them into oblivion. Basically, the Democrats set up a lucrative protection racket, but the upshot was an eventual shift from helping working people to despising working people. They became the party of hedge fund managers and rich coastal elites.
Ever since then it’s been a straight up class war, with Democrats making sure the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor and dependent on government.
The ‘elites’ are those who GAF about the NYTimes….the delusional, the AWFLs, the Kerryites.
While I think you meant GAF as ‘Gives a F***’ I find it ironic that GAF also stands for: “The Global Assessment of Functioning, or GAF, scale is used to rate how serious a mental illness may be. It measures how much a person’s symptoms affect their day-to-day life on a scale of 0 to 100.
So yes, they are ‘crazy’ on the NYT writing staff.