now it is incapable of disproof. In fact, all conceivable evidence supports the theory that liberalism is a whimsical luxury of the very rich—and the very poor, both of whom have little stake in society.
While the Democratic Party hauls in enormous donations from Hollywood celebrities and multimillionaire trial lawyers, 5 the average donation to the Republicans is about fifty dollars. For years, the Republican National Committee has proudly posted the size of its average donation and tauntingly asked the Democrats to release theirs. The Democrats have doggedly refused to do so. During the 2000 campaign, a Democratic spokesman justified this refusal, saying that an abstract number representing the average donation constituted “proprietary” information. 6
The most fabulously wealthy senators are invariably Democrats. After the 2000 election, there were four senators worth $200 million or more—and all four were Democrats: Senator John Kerry (D-Mass., $620 million), Senator Jon Corzine (D-N.J., $400 million), Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis., $300 million), and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va., $200 million). 7 If “moderate Republican” Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) ever figures out that he is in the wrong party, nine out of the top eleven would be Democrats. 8 (Republican multimillionaires are also more likely to have earned their money than to have married it. 9 )
The jet set is especially self-congratulatory about its notable empathy in comparison to the middle class, whom they call “the rich.” Liberals’ insistence that the rest of the world pay homage to their depth and compassion is even more irritating than their incorrigible elitism.
College dropout and working-class-phony Michael Moore produced a documentary, Roger and Me, that was wildly popular with rich liberals who enjoy jeering at workers from the land of pork rinds. As a caustic review in the New Yorker summarized the point of Roger and Me: “Members of the audience can laugh at ordinary working people and still feel that they are taking a politically correct position.” The UAW denounced Moore for the film. 10 The left reveres Moore as an authentic blue-collar type.
Only people who are grounded in a sense of their own value and who do not think the good life consists of being able to sneer at other people as inferior can resist the lure of liberal snobbery. If liberals couldn’t exercise their adolescent sneers through their control of the mass media, there would be no liberals at all.
It is important for liberals to demean the people they oppose to reinforce their sense of class superiority. Anyone can associate himself with the elite by adopting the left’s snooty superiority and laughing at Republicans for being dumb hicks. Adopting the prejudices of the powerful interests is a way of saying you are with the “in” crowd. You are with the cool Hollywood types who hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow, Sean Penn, and David Geffen— not the working-class hillbillies who go to NASCAR races.
Liberal propaganda gives the individual “a set of prejudices and beliefs, as well as objective justifications.” Anyone can be validated by saying what the cool, good-looking, rich people say. A “new idea will therefore be troublesome to his entire being. He will defend himself against it because it threatens to destroy his certainties.” 11 It doesn’t matter if you, personally, are a smelly white-trash idiot who doesn’t have a college degree. It is simply a means of asserting one’s relative refinement. It is axiomatic that every intelligent cultured person is a liberal. That is why there will always be a powerful lure to the left’s false and destructive ideas. To be cool, all you have to do is call Republicans ‘’stupid” or some similarly brilliant riposte; express greater empathy for a tree in the Brazilian Amazon than a human fetus; state your deep affection for government-sanctioned theft; and support drug legalization, sexual promiscuity, and
While the Democratic Party hauls in enormous donations from Hollywood celebrities and multimillionaire trial lawyers, 5 the average donation to the Republicans is about fifty dollars. For years, the Republican National Committee has proudly posted the size of its average donation and tauntingly asked the Democrats to release theirs. The Democrats have doggedly refused to do so. During the 2000 campaign, a Democratic spokesman justified this refusal, saying that an abstract number representing the average donation constituted “proprietary” information. 6
The most fabulously wealthy senators are invariably Democrats. After the 2000 election, there were four senators worth $200 million or more—and all four were Democrats: Senator John Kerry (D-Mass., $620 million), Senator Jon Corzine (D-N.J., $400 million), Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis., $300 million), and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va., $200 million). 7 If “moderate Republican” Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) ever figures out that he is in the wrong party, nine out of the top eleven would be Democrats. 8 (Republican multimillionaires are also more likely to have earned their money than to have married it. 9 )
The jet set is especially self-congratulatory about its notable empathy in comparison to the middle class, whom they call “the rich.” Liberals’ insistence that the rest of the world pay homage to their depth and compassion is even more irritating than their incorrigible elitism.
College dropout and working-class-phony Michael Moore produced a documentary, Roger and Me, that was wildly popular with rich liberals who enjoy jeering at workers from the land of pork rinds. As a caustic review in the New Yorker summarized the point of Roger and Me: “Members of the audience can laugh at ordinary working people and still feel that they are taking a politically correct position.” The UAW denounced Moore for the film. 10 The left reveres Moore as an authentic blue-collar type.
Only people who are grounded in a sense of their own value and who do not think the good life consists of being able to sneer at other people as inferior can resist the lure of liberal snobbery. If liberals couldn’t exercise their adolescent sneers through their control of the mass media, there would be no liberals at all.
It is important for liberals to demean the people they oppose to reinforce their sense of class superiority. Anyone can associate himself with the elite by adopting the left’s snooty superiority and laughing at Republicans for being dumb hicks. Adopting the prejudices of the powerful interests is a way of saying you are with the “in” crowd. You are with the cool Hollywood types who hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow, Sean Penn, and David Geffen— not the working-class hillbillies who go to NASCAR races.
Liberal propaganda gives the individual “a set of prejudices and beliefs, as well as objective justifications.” Anyone can be validated by saying what the cool, good-looking, rich people say. A “new idea will therefore be troublesome to his entire being. He will defend himself against it because it threatens to destroy his certainties.” 11 It doesn’t matter if you, personally, are a smelly white-trash idiot who doesn’t have a college degree. It is simply a means of asserting one’s relative refinement. It is axiomatic that every intelligent cultured person is a liberal. That is why there will always be a powerful lure to the left’s false and destructive ideas. To be cool, all you have to do is call Republicans ‘’stupid” or some similarly brilliant riposte; express greater empathy for a tree in the Brazilian Amazon than a human fetus; state your deep affection for government-sanctioned theft; and support drug legalization, sexual promiscuity, and
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