"Blue Staters are not Americans."
Oct. 5th, 2011 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsYesterday, during his segment on FOX News, economist Stuart Varney said the following: "The people who protested the G7 Summit here in the United States during the Bush years, remember, around 2002 and 2004? And the ones who were protesting the Iraq war. They were mostly Europeans..."
During a question and answer period with Steven Pinker on his book, evolutionary psychologist John Tooby also said, "Even in the U.S., blue-staters are European. If you look at who goes into the army ...it's middle class, rural people who are slightly better educated than average and who are religious. Those people are getting fewer in the liberal cosmopolitan revolution."
Once is accident, twice is coincidince. I'm still waiting to see proof of enemy action, at least above the kooky crazy level (you know, the people who can be coaxed into admitting they believe Loving v. Virginia was ruled incorrectly*), but I think I'm starting to see a trend.
Blue staters openly admit that there are better models for how the world works than the United States. You know, all those crazy countries with less crime, healthier citizenries, vibrant economies, and greater scholastic achievement. The epithet for that is "European," and now it's basically becoming a label for "un-American."
This goes beyond mere parochialism and epistemic closure. This is an autarky of mind.
* I picked Loving v. Virginia because discussing Griswold v. Pennsylvania has become a fad among right-wing talking points. It has become acceptable once again among right-wingers to openly discuss restricting access to contraception. This is the power of the Right Wing Noise Machine: to make discussing what was once unacceptable not only acceptable, but make it seem like a moral imperative.
During a question and answer period with Steven Pinker on his book, evolutionary psychologist John Tooby also said, "Even in the U.S., blue-staters are European. If you look at who goes into the army ...it's middle class, rural people who are slightly better educated than average and who are religious. Those people are getting fewer in the liberal cosmopolitan revolution."
Once is accident, twice is coincidince. I'm still waiting to see proof of enemy action, at least above the kooky crazy level (you know, the people who can be coaxed into admitting they believe Loving v. Virginia was ruled incorrectly*), but I think I'm starting to see a trend.
Blue staters openly admit that there are better models for how the world works than the United States. You know, all those crazy countries with less crime, healthier citizenries, vibrant economies, and greater scholastic achievement. The epithet for that is "European," and now it's basically becoming a label for "un-American."
This goes beyond mere parochialism and epistemic closure. This is an autarky of mind.
* I picked Loving v. Virginia because discussing Griswold v. Pennsylvania has become a fad among right-wing talking points. It has become acceptable once again among right-wingers to openly discuss restricting access to contraception. This is the power of the Right Wing Noise Machine: to make discussing what was once unacceptable not only acceptable, but make it seem like a moral imperative.
