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Class warefare vibe
Maybe it's just me, but I'm picking up a strong class-warfare undercurrent in a lot of these Clinton-Obama threads on this site and others. A lot of HRC supporters accuse Obama supporters of being rich, liberal elitists and college students (groups I'm arguable a member of) and a lot of Obama supporters seem to say Clinton people are under-informed (read: working-class) types. I'm not saying any of this is necessarily true, but it's the vibe a lot of people are sending out. If anything, it seems to me that HRC is winning the traditionally "liberal elite" states (NY CA etc) whereas BHO is picking up votes amongst the "beer-drinking" states (IL, GA etc). As a WI native, I'm betting that both the liberal elitist college town of Madison and the beer capital of the country, Milwaukee, go for Obama on the 19th.
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The HRC supporters do baffle the mind. If you are ever on the MyDD websites (the bastion of HRC supporters) you get the same contradictory meme's:
1. Obama supporters are unthinking sheep who will follow their cult leader "messiah" wherever he leads. That these duped followers will not do the research that shows that Obama is just as dirty as any other politician just shows how they will not educate themselves on the truth.
and
2. Obama supporters are among the educated "wine and cheese" elitist crowd who have no idea what it is like for the working class joes.
It seems to me HRC wants to have it both ways. How can you be and "educated elitist" and still be a part of a "mindless cult" who wont educate themselves on the evil's of Obama"?
My brain hurts from the twisted logic.
February 8, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
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