“if you want to be an obnoxious slob, you have a right to be one”
Again, Progressives truly believe that they hold the moral high ground in politics and in having such, can be “bossy” (remember when that was a liberal pejorative?). Looking down their noses, on their high horse, nose up in the air; pick the meme but be clear – this is all about the bicoastal elites thinking that the Democrat majority was here for a 1,000 years (er, didn’t we already have one of those back last century?) that the rest of us should just shut up, get in line, and learn to love the new Progressive lifestyle, morality and governance that our betters were deigning to give us.
Seems like others similar to me decided to give these snot-nosed asshats their own political requiem:
By and large, these were men who had voted for Trump, but few of them seemed to really support him in the full sense of the word. They were apprehensive about his presidency, they didn’t know what to expect from it, but many of them had made the choice anyway. Why? One of the men present told me you could summarize it with a single word: “Hillary!” Another described it with a variant on Trump’s famous proposition to black voters, which these white people clearly felt applied to them, too: “Whaddaya got to lose by making a change?”
Certain predictable conservative issues came up: meddlesome government, for example. Farmers these men knew of complained bitterly about the Environmental Protection Agency. Small bankers, too, were said to feel micromanaged. “We don’t like to be told what to do, how to do it,” someone said.
But it was not all standard-issue Republican talking points. These men groused about how big banks avoided being taken over by the FDIC, they used “Goldman Sachs” as verbal shorthand for wealth and influence, and I even heard complaints about billionaires controlling the state’s political process.
What did crop up persistently when I talked to this group was a disgust with the perceived moral haughtiness of liberals. More than one member of the club referred to himself as one of Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables”, for example. There was resentment of “Ivy League graduates” who felt entitled to “micromanage the rest of the country”. The man who told me that – a fellow wearing a US Army Retired cap – also told me that “if you want to be an obnoxious slob, you have a right to be one”.
This right-to-obnoxiousness raises a fascinating point: these men saw liberals as loudmouthed Pharisees, intolerant moralists who demanded that the rest of the nation snap into line – an exact reverse of the John Ashcroft stereotype liberals used to hold of conservatives.
You will worship at our altar of multiculturalism, of open borders, of gender identity, and that the precepts of your pathetic religion (you bitter Bible clingers) need to bow on bended knee to Diversity and Political Correctness. That your traditions stemming back centuries are out-moded and we will punish you for hewing to them versus ours. And forget about your traditional families and your gun. And that Constitution too (unless we need a bit of it now and then to further our cause). Shape to it in this new globalness – US sovereignty? We will all be citizens of the world.
And got real surprised when we deplorable collectively gave them the middle finger and screamed, “Sod off, swampy!!”).
(H/T: Instapundit)
