11-16-2016, 05:41 PM
(11-16-2016, 05:32 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:Quote:Quote:
… "Hillary Clinton, by contrast, epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the pantsuits. The arrogance: the email server. The smugness: the basket of deplorables. Worse, her mere presence rubs it in that even women from her class can treat working-class men with disrespect. Look at how she condescends to Trump as unfit to hold the office of the presidency and dismisses his supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic.”…
Quite ludicrous, on the whole. It's too bad heartland voters judge candidates on mere appearances, like pantsuits. It's smug to wear pantsuits? Or dorky? This is evidence that Trump voters decided on the basis of style, not substance. Americans often do. But this takes the cake; they chose a reality-TV con man.
The "arrogance?" the email server? So, judge someone arrogant because you fall for a whole bunch of dumb propaganda about a minor issue, when the arrogance displayed by Trump and Republicans is off the charts. No, Seth Myers got it right. Duh.
Telling the truth that a billionaire is unfit for the presidency because of behavior exhibited by him personally, is treating working-class men with disrespect? No, if this is "arrogance," then it's you heartland folks that are treating America and all people with total "disrespect."
Basket of deplorables? She was right of course; half of them probably are. But OK, so she made a gaffe. How many gaffes did Trump utter? And if his supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic, is that Hillary's fault? They are the ones who voted for a racist, sexist xenophobe.
Pardon me for introducing just a little logic into this hogwash.
We do have totally different worldviews. I thought that the HBR article was very logical and captured the situation fairly well.
… whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Phil 4:8 (ESV)