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The Fourth major failing is in assuming that the majority of the country faces the same concerns as the rich people piled into the coastal cities. There's noth
by forgetsusername 10y ago
The Fourth major failing is in assuming that the majority of the country faces the same concerns as the rich people piled into the coastal cities.
There's nothing inherently wrong with calling upon like-minded people to change government policies as the author asks (it's called lobbying), but the assumption that the "other-half" are just mistaken bigots and racists is exactly how this mess started.
- michaelsbradley 10y agoExactly. Frank Bruni over at the NYT wrote this yesterday: "Liberals miss this by being illiberal. They shame not just the racists and sexists who deserve it but all who disagree. A 64-year-old Southern woman not onboard with marriage equality finds herself characterized as a hateful boob. Never mind that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton weren’t themselves onboard just five short years ago. "Political correctness has morphed into a moral purity that may feel exhilarating but isn’t remotely tactical. It’s a handmaiden to smugness and sanctimony, undermining its own goals."[+] And note too that some of us in tech who went to big-name private universities, maxed out our SATs, are good at math and love the physical sciences....... some of us "held our noses" and voted for Trump as well, finding, in comparison, the politics and platform of Hillary Clinton to be alienating and slightly worse, on the whole. [+] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/the-democrats-screwed-up.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/the-democrats-scre...