This is not mine, I translated it from this blog
Republicans used to be the party of the establishment, of elites, of excellent universities. Nowadays, when you listen to Palin, you see it is the party of small towns, fishermen, of simple people.
It is an exaltation of all that is rustic. Being capable, intelligent, talented is not something well seen, it is democrat stuff, San Francisco stuff (*** stuff).
Democrats used to be the party of the common man, but democrat leaders were not common men and did not pretend to be common men, nowadays republicans want to be the party of the common man, and they want their leaders to be commen men too.
The delegates are ecstatic with Palin, if one fell from another planet and heard what kind of things candidates praise and what they hide about their lives one may think having many kids requires more intelligence and skill than being the president of Harvard Law Review.
Obama tries to hide that he is a notoriously brilliant man, Palin highlights that she is simple, elemental, that she has never stood out or been a part of the elite.
Surely, there is some logic in wanting to vote for "one of us", someone who is not a genius whom nevertheless knows how "the people like me" live.
But when republicans praise that mediocrity, and mix it with their fanatic and so idiosyncratic reactionary conservatism (non existent is most big western parties) they become disgusting.
Their populism is always intellectual but never economic, because both, the Hewlett Packard CEO and the eBay ex CEO who spoke before, seem to be doing well with the mediocrity of the Bushes and Palins.
It is an exaltation of all that is rustic. Being capable, intelligent, talented is not something well seen, it is democrat stuff, San Francisco stuff (*** stuff).
Democrats used to be the party of the common man, but democrat leaders were not common men and did not pretend to be common men, nowadays republicans want to be the party of the common man, and they want their leaders to be commen men too.
The delegates are ecstatic with Palin, if one fell from another planet and heard what kind of things candidates praise and what they hide about their lives one may think having many kids requires more intelligence and skill than being the president of Harvard Law Review.
Obama tries to hide that he is a notoriously brilliant man, Palin highlights that she is simple, elemental, that she has never stood out or been a part of the elite.
Surely, there is some logic in wanting to vote for "one of us", someone who is not a genius whom nevertheless knows how "the people like me" live.
But when republicans praise that mediocrity, and mix it with their fanatic and so idiosyncratic reactionary conservatism (non existent is most big western parties) they become disgusting.
Their populism is always intellectual but never economic, because both, the Hewlett Packard CEO and the eBay ex CEO who spoke before, seem to be doing well with the mediocrity of the Bushes and Palins.
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