10-18-2008, 05:39 PM
Greg the dogsitter wrote:
"We believe that the best of America is in the small towns that we get to visit, and in the wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."
What bothers me is the implied statement that those who don't live in those wonderful little "pockets", are not part of the real America, not hard-working, not patriotic, not pro-America.
The way that compliment works is along the lines of "What I love about you is that you aren't like my ex-wife."
It's the ugly old Spiro Agnew/George Wallace concept that the educated, metropolitan part of the population are "pointy headed intellectuals" and "nattering nabobs of negativism". The "elites" who because they read books and have been in the Big City are twisted and corrupt.