re: #370 reine.de.tout

What is so very interesting about these people is that they never volunteer to actually do something concrete, that might interfere with her life. It’s all “somebody else” has to do something.

And somebody else has to pay the price for their “benevolence”.

That’s a favorite game among upscale liberals in the Boston burbs. “Let’s decide how the hicks in the sticks can use their land. Then we can feel good about ourselves for protecting Naychah. And the cost of compliance is very reasonable: only three or four figures per year.”

From the Frank Rich op-ed mentioned earlier:

Most important, she stands for a genuine movement: a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances and awash in self-pity as the country hurtles into the 21st century and leaves it behind.

In addition to Rich’s slanted choice of words, he’s factually wrong: much of nonurban America would be entirely willing to be left behind alone. I don’t know if Rich is ignorant or if he is knowingly misspeaking in support of an agenda.