Flippant remarks about the morons across the aisle aside (of the sort to which I have NEVER, EVER resorted), there are dividends when we try a bit harder to understand why people reach positions or make decisions which are illogical.
It was overwhelmed by the JD Vance hype machine, but the
Arlie Hochschild book is much better, and really will help liberals comprehend people who they would otherwise find baffling.
Likewise, in the spirit of equal opportunity and inclusion, conservatives like Kevin Williamson, who've made a career of passing the rhetoric once applied to blacks (before it became declassé even at
Even The National Review) on to poor whites instead, would benefit from
basic scientific literacy about poverty.
Still, mezzrow, it is easy, and lazy, to position oneself on high, wise and detached, and eyeing with bemusement the social media-induced confusion of the masses below.
But you, more than anyone else on here, fall for truly disgusting conspiracy theories peddled by heartless, cynical people all the time - Seth Rich, Imran Awan, et al - and I've never once seen you own up to it, much less try to learn anything. Your latest post on Imran Awan was truly pathetic.
If you are going to demand honesty and humility from the liberal media, never mind the rest of us, then shouldn't you yourself be willing, to quote one of the greatest minds in Western Civilisation, to "clean up your room and sort yourself out, Bucko"?
