Aaaaahhh...the days after an election are always a time for reflection, aren't they?
What did we do right?
And, conversely, what did we do wrong?
The Democrats are certainly reflecting...on how stupid the American voters are.
MSNBC's Eric Alterman was mirroring the Mirror's sentiments: "Slightly more than half of the citizens of this country simply do not care about what those of us in the 'reality-based community' say or believe about anything."
Just in case you missed it, Alterman was referring to the London's Daily Mirror front page: "How Can 59,054,087 People Be So DUMB?"
I mentioned it earlier: over at Slate, Jane Smiley's analysis was headlined, "The Unteachable Ignorance Of The Red States"
If you don't want to bother plowing your way through Alterman and Smiley, a placard prominently displayed by a fetching young lad at the post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco cut to the chase: "F--- MIDDLE AMERICA."
I am quoting Mark Steyn's piece in the Chicago Sun Times.
Steyn goes on: Almost right, man. It would be more accurate to say that "MIDDLE AMERICA" has "F---ed" you, and it will continue to do so every two years as long as Democrats insist that anyone who disagrees with them is, ipso facto, a simpleton -- or "Neanderthal," as Teresa Heinz Kerry described those unimpressed by her husband's foreign policy. In my time, I've known dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and other members of Britain's House of Lords and none of them had the contempt for the masses one routinely hears from America's coastal elites. And, in fairness to those ermined aristocrats, they could afford Dem-style contempt: A seat in the House of Lords is for life; a Senate seat in South Dakota isn't.
Coastal Elites.
I like that term because it speaks directly to the discussion about whether or not to do away with the Electoral College.
I think America GOT IT.
In spite of four years of hate. In spite of the millions poured into a campaign AGAINST someone rather than FOR SOMETHING.
Hate is not an agenda. And, until the Democrats wake up and realize that tiny truth, they are going to continue to cry and ask themselves 'what went wrong?' every two years.
DR
