This is what struck me most strongly about Thom's post: he is documenting that it is the oligarch class that despises (and wants to degrade the welfare of) the "regular working-class, "real Americans." Yet the enduring triumph of Rush Limbaugh, I think primarily, is in persuading the "regular" folks that it's the liberal "Left-Coast Elit…
This is what struck me most strongly about Thom's post: he is documenting that it is the oligarch class that despises (and wants to degrade the welfare of) the "regular working-class, "real Americans." Yet the enduring triumph of Rush Limbaugh, I think primarily, is in persuading the "regular" folks that it's the liberal "Left-Coast Elites" that oppress them! ("Flyover Country.")Talk about the Opposite of Everything is True! But I have read a lot about British society, and there was an equilibrium based on profound internalization of the scale of rank by the populace; everybody knowing his/her place according to birth status. This is still a complicated and finicky influence in Britain. The mirror image of "Consent of the Governed." Self-policed by the victims! Now there's some reverse snobbery: celebrities wouldn't dare talk "posh!" That part is operational here across the Pond: fear and loathing of the "overly" educated. Exhibit A: Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, whose hick act for the benefit of his sucker constituents drives me high up the walll!
This is what struck me most strongly about Thom's post: he is documenting that it is the oligarch class that despises (and wants to degrade the welfare of) the "regular working-class, "real Americans." Yet the enduring triumph of Rush Limbaugh, I think primarily, is in persuading the "regular" folks that it's the liberal "Left-Coast Elites" that oppress them! ("Flyover Country.")Talk about the Opposite of Everything is True! But I have read a lot about British society, and there was an equilibrium based on profound internalization of the scale of rank by the populace; everybody knowing his/her place according to birth status. This is still a complicated and finicky influence in Britain. The mirror image of "Consent of the Governed." Self-policed by the victims! Now there's some reverse snobbery: celebrities wouldn't dare talk "posh!" That part is operational here across the Pond: fear and loathing of the "overly" educated. Exhibit A: Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, whose hick act for the benefit of his sucker constituents drives me high up the walll!