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the NYT writing staff can't believe why everyone is being SO MEAN to their friends. I mean, it's just so PETTY you know? It's like, we're just middle-class people, you know.
I would like to point out that I have heard that, more or less verbatim at at swanky part for the NYT uppercrusts. If we don't have at least a little populist uprising and rightous anger becoming action in the next few years , I'm just going to conclude the majority of Americans are the /s to their oligarchy's D/.
I can't read the article (big brother proxy doesn't like Gawker) but yea, that privileged upper class attitude that the NYT often reeks of drives me nuts. Somehow we owe them their fancy lifestyle.
I'm sort of amazed that I can get to Mefi and MeCha, there's not much of the internet that I'm allowed to access here. *Reason #43 of why I'm trying to bail*
If we don't have at least a little populist uprising and rightous anger becoming action in the next few years , I'm just going to conclude the majority of Americans are the /s to their oligarchy's D/.
Hey, there, Whelk. As a former pinko-Commie, I fully empathize with your frustrations and feelings of contempt. But please try to be patient with the ordinary folks. It takes time for that kind of leadership you're looking for to form. Most of the people who are suffering right now have this vague idea that this new, shiny, kinda-sorta-progressive President is gonna make everything OK. He won't, of course, but it'll take a while for the scales to fall from their eyes. When that happens, then you'll start to see the working people take direct action in their own interests, independently from, and often in opposition to, the Democratic Party.
People gave Roosevelt the benefit of the doubt for a while too. The radicalism that we associate with the 1930s didn't take off in a big way until his second term, when it became clear that even the liberal, good, decent wing of the system wasn't going to solve the crisis.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying: please try to be patient with people who haven't had the same insights you've had.