So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn’t those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what’s going on in the world.
Ted Rall
[url=http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/]Confessions of a Cultural Elitist[/url]

Yes, they probably also have higher rates of suicide and failed marriages. I’m willing to be they also have many more trips to something called a “Psychotherapist,” where they spend oodles of money to learn that everything bad in the world is their parents’ fault and that, after years of therapy, they can learn that, really, they are very “angry” at their parents.

Furthermore, they think culture has to do with the ethnic restaraunts they visit, that money really can buy you love, and that happiness is defined by the amount of material goods one manages to accumulate during one’s life. Their city-bound communities are like fortresses of intellectual escapism and many of these so-called “elites” are clearly educated beyond their intelligence.

Mainstream America rejects the demands of these idiotic elitists for exactly the same reasons that most of the inhabitants of the original thirteen colonies rejected the demands of the English nobles before the start of the American Revolution… We don’t need the society of the clueless and misinformed telling us how to live our lives.

Our modern-day elites whine and moan over the fact that they pay more taxes but have less say now in our government than ever, but WE are the ones who send our sons and daughters off to defend their shallow lives. In the end, people like Rall can console themselves with the material things which they’ve surrounded themselves with and pretend to stand above the fray, but those of us with a even a tiny modicum of common sense know better.

We work hard every day… We tuck our children into bed after hugs and kisses goodnight… We achieve meaningful things every day, understanding that anything of lasting value must center on faith and family, not goods and services.

So, while the elites think they must suffer our ignorance, the truth is that we tolerate theirs, knowing that this is the price of living in a free society. Do they elites really know more about what is going on in the world? Perhaps… But they have no clue what is going on right here in their own country.

God bless America!

David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com