KRUGMAN: "California"

[Le Taz Hot]

91. Your post drips with elitism and the sad thing is?

You don't even recognize it.

What you call "hypersensitivity" is a reaction to people like you, who don't live here, who've never spent time here, passing judgment on people who CHOOSE (got that? CHOOSE) to live here. Your post comes off as the height of sanctimony preaching from afar, what we "should" and "should not" be doing without ever spending one second even trying to understand the culture here. You're as bad as the Republicans and their' "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" diatribe. Yes, unbelievable as it seems, people do WANT to live here. They like the rural settings, they like the sense of community, they like the sense of belonging and they know their neighbors. They like producing the food YOU and the rest of the world eats.

I grew up in Los Angeles. Born and raised there. And while I have no problem with Angelinos and people who live on the coast or in the Bay Area you couldn't PAY me to live there (and I've had plenty of opportunity to move) and you know why? Because I don't EVER want to live around people like you.

You want to know why the Democrats can't make headway here? Calling the place that we live in and love a "cesspool?" Re-read your post, Einstien and then ask me that question again. On second thought, don't bother -- I have no patience with DLC sycophants anyway so there's no great loss. :flush: