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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Real Americans (Digby)
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-real-americans.htmlOne of the more positive consequences of this ridiculous fiscal cliff fight seems to be a growing awareness that the beltway is out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans. For those who've read Chris Hayes' brilliant book Twilight of the Elites, this is well-trod ground and his analysis explains quite well how this came to pass.
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The term "The Village" does stem from the notorious Sally Quinn article about the Clintons. But it's more than that. It's shorthand for the permanent DC ruling class who have managed to convince themselves that they are simple, puritanical, bourgeois burghers and farmers, even though they are actually celebrity millionaires influencing the most powerful government on earth.
It's about their phoniness, their pretense of speaking for "average Americans" when it's clear they haven't the vaguest clue even about the average Americans who work in their local Starbucks or drive their cabs. (Think Tim Russert, good old boy from Buffalo, lately of Nantucket.)It's about their intolerable sanctimony and hypocritical provincialism, pretending to be shocked about things they all do, creating social rules for others which they themselves ignore.
The village is really "the village" an ersatz small town like something you'd see in Disneyland. And to those who argue that Versailles is the far better metaphor, I would just say that it is Versailles --- a very particular part:
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The Village is a metaphor for the faux "middle class values" that the wealthy, insular, privileged, hypocritical political celebrities (and their hangers-on and wannabes) present to the nation.
I am always shocked by the ability Digby has to read through these bullshits.
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What Real Americans (Digby) (Original Post)
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Dec 2012
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)1. I agree this is very insightful.
The political class live in a magic bubble divorced from reality.
See also Very Serious People.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)2. It is a village, as in Potemkin. K&R n/t
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)3. "What Digby said!" nt