“Meanwhile, as in the late Soviet Union, the hillbillies—actually the working class and a goodly slice of the middle class, too—drink and drug themselves to death even as the political and cultural elite double down on a bizarre ideology that no one really believes in.”
Thanks Sir Niall. Perhaps some relief can be taken in knowing that in…
“Meanwhile, as in the late Soviet Union, the hillbillies—actually the working class and a goodly slice of the middle class, too—drink and drug themselves to death even as the political and cultural elite double down on a bizarre ideology that no one really believes in.”
Thanks Sir Niall. Perhaps some relief can be taken in knowing that in your world the “middle class” enjoys knowing a not so “goodly slice” of their ilk is not yet ‘drinking and drugging’ themselves to death whereas the lowly working class is apparently, according to you, all in on the endeavor.
Forgive me for deducing from your writings that the so called new right “political and cultural elite” you belong to is committing the very sin you lament by scooping the entire “working class” into a bucket of drugged out drunken losers.
“Are we the Soviets? Look around you.”
Uhhh…no. We are not.
Next time you travel the roadways in any major city, or small town - let’s say a town in Montana - take a “look around you” and you might notice an army of tradesmen, those hapless working class, traveling to their next project, or hauling goods to sustain our civilization. You might notice a tat or two reading, USMC or Semper Fi, on a forearm or bicep.
It’s a wonder they can travel from A to B without running off the road in their drunken drugged out stupors eh?
Take a look into the sober determined faces of those workers and you will find the answer to your question: “Are we the Soviets?”
This same feckless working class that gave us Trump 2016 because they have been, for several decades running, “looking around” them.
Ohhh, but that’s just because they’re racist dip sh-ts taken in by the orange carnival barker eh? Not that you made that argument per se but…
What if, even in their drunken drugged out stupors, they saw Trump clearly, knew what he was, but supported him in spite of that because they wanted to blow things up before they got worse. They know we’re borrowing cash hand over fist and dumping the debt onto their yet to be born progeny. They know their kids are attending failing schools. They know what a rigged system smells like. They get it.
They don’t speak at conferences. They don’t write foot noted papers but they got it way before you and the boyz at Hoover and National Review.
What can I tell you Pal? Welcome to the fight. It’s about time. We don’t mind your being fashionably late. We’ll take all the help we can get. But you being a wordsmith, maybe choosing those with a bit more care might be, if nothing else, polite?
Then again, you’re not talking to us. We don’t read The Free Press.
“Meanwhile, as in the late Soviet Union, the hillbillies—actually the working class and a goodly slice of the middle class, too—drink and drug themselves to death even as the political and cultural elite double down on a bizarre ideology that no one really believes in.”
Thanks Sir Niall. Perhaps some relief can be taken in knowing that in your world the “middle class” enjoys knowing a not so “goodly slice” of their ilk is not yet ‘drinking and drugging’ themselves to death whereas the lowly working class is apparently, according to you, all in on the endeavor.
Forgive me for deducing from your writings that the so called new right “political and cultural elite” you belong to is committing the very sin you lament by scooping the entire “working class” into a bucket of drugged out drunken losers.
“Are we the Soviets? Look around you.”
Uhhh…no. We are not.
Next time you travel the roadways in any major city, or small town - let’s say a town in Montana - take a “look around you” and you might notice an army of tradesmen, those hapless working class, traveling to their next project, or hauling goods to sustain our civilization. You might notice a tat or two reading, USMC or Semper Fi, on a forearm or bicep.
It’s a wonder they can travel from A to B without running off the road in their drunken drugged out stupors eh?
Take a look into the sober determined faces of those workers and you will find the answer to your question: “Are we the Soviets?”
This same feckless working class that gave us Trump 2016 because they have been, for several decades running, “looking around” them.
Ohhh, but that’s just because they’re racist dip sh-ts taken in by the orange carnival barker eh? Not that you made that argument per se but…
What if, even in their drunken drugged out stupors, they saw Trump clearly, knew what he was, but supported him in spite of that because they wanted to blow things up before they got worse. They know we’re borrowing cash hand over fist and dumping the debt onto their yet to be born progeny. They know their kids are attending failing schools. They know what a rigged system smells like. They get it.
They don’t speak at conferences. They don’t write foot noted papers but they got it way before you and the boyz at Hoover and National Review.
What can I tell you Pal? Welcome to the fight. It’s about time. We don’t mind your being fashionably late. We’ll take all the help we can get. But you being a wordsmith, maybe choosing those with a bit more care might be, if nothing else, polite?
Then again, you’re not talking to us. We don’t read The Free Press.
If you don’t read the Free Press, why are you commenting? Did it ever occur to you that you act more like the nomenklatura than not.
No it has not occurred.
The comment was an attempt at sarcasm. Seems it fell flat. That happens.
I like reading Ferguson but he managed to wind me up a bit on that one.
Also, you made me look up nomenklatura. As if I don’t have enough on my plate.
Great word though.