I wrote about this issue yesterday and here I am back at it again today – a post over at Blog For America set me off. According to The Club For Growth, people who support Howard Dean are part of a vast
latte-drinking,
sushi-eating,
Volvo-driving,
New York Times-reading,
body-piercing,
Hollywood-loving,
left-wing freak show
The Burnt Orange Report posted a nifty comeback. An excerpt:
Even when you work this out on a per-capita basis, there is one Starbucks location in Vermont for every 307,000 Vermonters, versus one Texas location for every 53,987 Texans. In other words, there are over five times as many Starbucks locations on a per-person basis in Texas than there are in Vermont.
Since the market would never lie to us, we can safely assume who the real latte-sippers are.
Although this sort of tit-for-tat admittedly brings a smile to my lips, the underlying issue is a serious one. It all gets back to that great cultural divide in America these days, and it worries me. We have become a nation of “Us” and “Them” and we seem to continually strive for more ways of dividing ourselves.
I am really, really tired of it. Sleazy, divisive, insulting, underhanded politics seems to be the name of the game these days – and not just in Republican circles – and I’ve had enough. I want my country back.
I hope from the bottom of my heart that Howard Dean is as good as we supporters believe him to be, because I don’t think I could stand another letdown. If he turns out to be yet another slimy politician who’s brillantly, yet cynically, manupulated himself into his current front-runner status, I’m going to give it up and look hard at moving to someplace nice and quiet like Tonga.