http://www.farrfeed.com/2008/03/13/invisible-dessert/ John Hamilton Farr's Living Planet Mystery Tales from Taos, New Mexico Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:57:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.farrfeed.com/2008/03/13/invisible-dessert/comment-page-1/#comment-440 K.J. Webb Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:06:28 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2008/03/13/invisible-dessert/#comment-440 Never mind the personal virtues or otherwise of Hillary, it's her constituency we ought to treat with respect. Call it class loyalty on my part, but I always stick up for these conventional working-class folks, and since they're sticking up for Hillary, it hurts me - and seems to me not only politically unwise but elitist - to demonize either her or them on account of how the poor dumb bastards don't quite get the cosmic changing-of-the-guard vibes coming off Barack. Much as I like him for the kind of things you like him for, I have to admit that this comes more naturally when you're well-educated or youthful (in years or point of view). If you're neither of those things and if you've been a bit scarred by the struggle to raise your kids in a traditional way on a small pay-packet, you have different concerns. Scorn those concerns and we risk producing a cohort of McCain Democrats to replace the depleted ranks of the erstwhile Reagan Democrats. Maybe it doesn't matter. We have to follow our hearts in politics as in all things, and we can't worry too much about folks whose hearts go in other ways. As you said (I quote loosely!) a good fight is just fine. Never mind the personal virtues or otherwise of Hillary, it’s her constituency we ought to treat with respect. Call it class loyalty on my part, but I always stick up for these conventional working-class folks, and since they’re sticking up for Hillary, it hurts me – and seems to me not only politically unwise but elitist – to demonize either her or them on account of how the poor dumb bastards don’t quite get the cosmic changing-of-the-guard vibes coming off Barack. Much as I like him for the kind of things you like him for, I have to admit that this comes more naturally when you’re well-educated or youthful (in years or point of view). If you’re neither of those things and if you’ve been a bit scarred by the struggle to raise your kids in a traditional way on a small pay-packet, you have different concerns. Scorn those concerns and we risk producing a cohort of McCain Democrats to replace the depleted ranks of the erstwhile Reagan Democrats. Maybe it doesn’t matter. We have to follow our hearts in politics as in all things, and we can’t worry too much about folks whose hearts go in other ways. As you said (I quote loosely!) a good fight is just fine.

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