...do our political leaders have any sense of what people are feeling deep down? They don't act as if they do. I think their detachment from how normal people think is more dangerous and disturbing than it has been in the past. I started noticing in the 1980s, the growing gulf between the country's thought leaders, as they're called—the political and media class, the universities—and those living what for lack of a better word we'll call normal lives on the ground in America. The two groups were agitated by different things, concerned about different things, had different focuses, different world views.
But I've never seen the gap wider than it is now. I think it is a chasm. In Washington they don't seem to be looking around and thinking, Hmmm, this nation is in trouble, it needs help. They're thinking something else. I'm not sure they understand the American Dream itself needs a boost, needs encouragement and protection. [Hey!! Peggy!!! No one in the White House actually understands the American dream--and they never had it. They're aliens...] They don't seem to know or have a sense of the mood of the country.
And so they make their moves, manipulate this issue and that, and keep things at a high boil. And this at a time when people are already in about as much hot water as they can take.
Peggy shoulda thunk that a LONG time ago.
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"In Washington they don't seem to be looking around and thinking, Hmmm, this nation is in trouble, it needs help. They're thinking something else. I'm not sure they understand the American Dream itself needs a boost, needs encouragement and protection."
I think Peggy (why you call her a BigGummint girl is beyond me) is full of crap. I think the above quote is pure BS. Of course they know, the good ones know, and there are plenty of them, that the country is in really bad shape right now. And they know what it should and could be and all most all of them are well aware of what it is that most people consider "the American Dream." Some, and I won't point fingers in this post, know it and understand it, but they are more interested in blocking someone else's idea of how to get us out of trouble than they are in actually getting us out of trouble.
Jim
Government cannot give someone the American Dream by taking it away from those that have been successful.
The idea of the American Dream is that anybody can be successful from their own hard work and merits.
Government is now actively standing in the way of that through excessive and insanely complicated regulation, excessive and insanely complicated taxation, and by assuming that everyone is a victim and too stupid to make their own decisions - including bad ones that have consequenses.
Dad
Agreed. Noonan is a cocktail circuit convenient conservative. An eloquent idiot.
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