I will add this: the disconnect with Democrats is not recent. It goes back a long way, much longer than most of you are even aware. To illustrate, I remind everyone of one of Ronald Regan's famous one line zingers: "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
He said that in 1964, while stumping for Barry Goldwater.
The same Barry Goldwater that the infamous "daisy" TV advertisement was created to attack.
Do you recognize the moral slander inherent in that ad?
Much as we like to think things have only recently gotten this divided, it is not a recent thing. New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael famously remarked in 1972 that she didn't know a Nixon voter:
I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.
I've been conservative for over 40 years, and lived through Reagan and all that followed. In all that time, national level Democrats were always disconnected from regular normal people, but now this extends to nearly all of them.
You pretty much nail it.
I will add this: the disconnect with Democrats is not recent. It goes back a long way, much longer than most of you are even aware. To illustrate, I remind everyone of one of Ronald Regan's famous one line zingers: "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
He said that in 1964, while stumping for Barry Goldwater.
The same Barry Goldwater that the infamous "daisy" TV advertisement was created to attack.
Do you recognize the moral slander inherent in that ad?
Much as we like to think things have only recently gotten this divided, it is not a recent thing. New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael famously remarked in 1972 that she didn't know a Nixon voter:
https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/the-actual-pauline-kael-quote%E2%80%94not-as-bad-and-worse/
I've been conservative for over 40 years, and lived through Reagan and all that followed. In all that time, national level Democrats were always disconnected from regular normal people, but now this extends to nearly all of them.
Are you that goofball that killed an albatross?