I do not think there is anything more baselessly arrogant than the belief

[Occam Bandage]

that you are capable of getting a joke, but that the rest of the country is not.

And that concludes my contributions to the discussion of The Most Outrageous Outrage Since The Last One.

[NYC_SKP]

1. It is Elitism personified. nt

[scheming daemons]

2. I don't get it.

;-)

[NanceGreggs]

3. Oh, I hear ya!

It's like when a lot of us "got it" that W was a joke, only to realize that everyone else got it, too!

[Bluerthanblue]

6. geez-

you say in one sentence what I stumble through paragraphs trying to.

Well said Nance-

I off to bed.

[NanceGreggs]

10. I off to bed, too ...

... nighty-night, and CU in the AM!

:hi:

[Bluerthanblue]

4. I guess you'd think that it's arrogant to admit that the rest of the country

isn't going to become Democratic, even though you know it is by FAR the political party that really benefits all Americans and is more in line with the concepts this country is based on.

It may not be pretty- it may not make any sense, but that doesn't stop it from being true.


:shrug:

Can you not argue your perspective on it's merits, rather than trying to assisinate the character of your fellow Democrats?

You may not think that equates to 'arrogance' but it sure isn't very convincing, or constructive.

[Occam Bandage]

8. Nope, because I understand that voting is primarily a statement of

cultural identity, not an economic investment. Republicans are better at selling that identity than we are--which is to be expected, since we tend to take up the hard causes of equality and justice, instead of the cheap-but-effective appeals to fear and distrust that carry Republicans into office. If we were Franchise-bots, voting purely on projected household income and costs (from painstakingly-crafted actuarial tables), then politics would be unrecognizably different. Unfortunately, humans are human.

My perspective on the New Yorker is this: Anyone who is so monumentally culturally ignorant that they are incapable of understanding this as satire is not going to get within ten feet of an issue of the New Yorker excepting by accident--which is a moot point anyway, as they've already forwarded every one of the cover's points of reference to their entire e-mail address book a dozen times over.

[Bluerthanblue]

14. who would have thought that Rev.Wrights sunday sermons would

have made it into the homes of people who have absolutely no desire to hear a church sermon?


I'd like to think like you do- but I live among a society which includes some people who willfully ignorant, and some who are cunningly manipulative, and 8yrs of the results of that is killing us all.


- I'm not looking for outrage- I'm looking for peace- community- and cooperation.


probably die lookin.

hey- peace to you OB

I gotta go to bed-

[Maddy McCall]

5. I get your post.

But I doubt anyone else will.

Oh, and K/R.

:7

[Skittles]

7. YOU EITHER GET IT AND THINK IT'S FUNNY

OR YOU DON'T GET IT AND YOU'RE OFFENDED!!! You cannot get it AND think it sucks!!! No INDEED. :7

[Occam Bandage]

11. This would be directed at a slice of that third group, yes--

the slice that believes that while they are enlightened and intelligent and thus understand this as satire, they fear that the average American is such a colossal moron that they are incapable of comprehending a New Yorker cover as anything but hard-hitting photojournalism.

They apparently also believe that the average American also reads the New Yorker, but that's an inconsistency for another time.

[Skittles]

12. LOL

that's not it at ALL

[Occam Bandage]

13. For you, perhaps not. I do not recall mentioning "Skittles" at any point in the OP.

After all, as you so correctly pointed out, there are indeed multiple points of view here. I don't know why you'd assume I'd be referring to yours, especially since you claim it is different from your own.

[Skittles]

15. you're off again

you're completely misunderstanding

[redstate_democrat]

16. So I guess you have a problem with

www.fightthesmears.com ?

How dare Obama debunk these silly lies that any intelligent person should know is a bunch of crap. How could anyone believe a United States Senator is a jihadist? Obama must be an elite who thinks the average voter is a moron for him to waste his time putting his birth certificate on the net to confirm he was, in fact, born in the United States. Why couldn't he just ignore these stupid folks and just focus on all the smart people who read The New Yorker?

[Occam Bandage]

17. Absolutely I do. Clearly he should have taken out an ad in the New Yorker,

as that is the magazine of choice for the low-information voter.

[vaberella]

9. I agree with you on this 100%.

[ZombieHorde]

18. Bwahahaha!

[blondeatlast]

19. I'm outraged... that you managed to say what I'm thinking. nt

[Goblinmonger]

20. but LIV are just stupid

Stupid, stupid, stupid. They aren't smart like me so we have to spoon feed them everything.

:sarcasm: because the past 24 hours have shown me that plenty of people on here are dumb.