She does it again, with help from Paul Krugman:
“Pulling in the threads of Krugman, Lind and Somerby, what binds them into a coherent Democratic narrative is respect for the person without giving anyone a pass for denigrating others. It’s giving people enough respect to say that what they think is wrong, and not condescend to some kind of vulgar Marxist dismissal of them as ignorant rubes, or else rail against them as immoral and irredeemable and make them the scapegoats for the sins of an entire nation. That applies as much to stereotypes of urban dwellers as rural ones.”
There is nothing wrong with small towns, but there’s nothing wrong with big cities either.
I’ve lived in both, but I prefer big cities. But that’s just my preference.
How come the Unity
Pony is so divisive?
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I love visiting the family farm in Tennessee, but there’s a reason I live in Los Angeles. It’s not that LA is better, it’s just better for me. I have cousins who would hate every minute here and that’s fine, too.
It’s just so weird to me that some groups of people feel the need to prove their moral superiority over other groups of people. I get it when it comes to, say, non-torturers feeling superior to torturers because you are talking about specific actions, specific people have taken. But to feel superior because you went to X school or live in a city or don’t live in a city or whatever seems so artificial.