Joe-Six-Pack
Oct. 22nd, 2008 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitsjayFirst off, I would like to direct you here because I think it's amazing.
All I can say is word. I heard some people complaining that Palin does a lot of the "trying to relate to the middle-class" and I will admit she goes overboard, but I think all parties (literally in this case) are guilty of it, which the author of that article does mention. Because these people, running for president of the United States, are trying to tell us they're just like us and here's a newsflash: No, they're not.
They've probably never had to worry about whether they can make rent that month or tried to budget themselves down to $5 a week for food. They have never had to stop when they're about to buy a T-shirt and think, "Can I afford this?" They have never had to work a menial job at Wendy's just to get by. They have never had to wonder where they can go because their parents kicked them out of the house.
You know what? I know people who have (and am some of those people) and it's fucking insulting for candidates of either camp try and tell me they understand. I get it, you're trying to convince us that you know what we want because you understand our needs and you're going to look out for us when you're in office. I get it, really.
But using "folksy" terms? Acting like middle-class (or lower) America are all morons?
That's not the way to go. I may not have money, I may not have power; I may not have authority or respect, but I am intelligent. Don't treat me otherwise.
The author obviously said it better than me, but I had to chip in my bit. I hate presidential election years.
All I can say is word. I heard some people complaining that Palin does a lot of the "trying to relate to the middle-class" and I will admit she goes overboard, but I think all parties (literally in this case) are guilty of it, which the author of that article does mention. Because these people, running for president of the United States, are trying to tell us they're just like us and here's a newsflash: No, they're not.
They've probably never had to worry about whether they can make rent that month or tried to budget themselves down to $5 a week for food. They have never had to stop when they're about to buy a T-shirt and think, "Can I afford this?" They have never had to work a menial job at Wendy's just to get by. They have never had to wonder where they can go because their parents kicked them out of the house.
You know what? I know people who have (and am some of those people) and it's fucking insulting for candidates of either camp try and tell me they understand. I get it, you're trying to convince us that you know what we want because you understand our needs and you're going to look out for us when you're in office. I get it, really.
But using "folksy" terms? Acting like middle-class (or lower) America are all morons?
That's not the way to go. I may not have money, I may not have power; I may not have authority or respect, but I am intelligent. Don't treat me otherwise.
The author obviously said it better than me, but I had to chip in my bit. I hate presidential election years.
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Date: 2008-10-23 02:45 am (UTC)You'd be like, "yay...gourmet ramen...huzzah."
hehe
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Date: 2008-10-23 02:53 am (UTC)LOL. I love shrimp Ramen--they have this lime shrimp that's so good... Actually a friend of mine gave me like, twenty of those kinds in the little bowls? I've gone through most of them, but they're brand name Ramen. How sad is it that there is off-brand Ramen? I mean, that's like off-brand Spam.
:)) Hee!