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Here is a brilliant "I-hate-stupid-voters" comment from Katha Pollitt, a columnist for the Nation, writing in Slate:

The greater problem, though, is this: The scale of the suggestions is not adequate to the scale of the problem. It's tinkering around the edges. It's assuming that Christian-right voters don't really mean what they say. If a voter wants Christian Jihad, he may not be willing to desert the cause for health insurance — especially with Republicans telling him 50 times a day that the plan is really a socialist plot to raise his taxes and poison him with Canadian drugs. And if a crucial subtext of Republicanism is—and I believe it is—the preservation of white privilege, whole swathes of the country are a lost cause for the Democrats. The Democrats had the South—and the country—when they had the racist vote. Now, thanks to Nixon's Southern strategy, the Republicans have that very large and energetic demographic.

The Democrats' self-reassuring message: We're too good for this rotten country!

[Posted 11/08 11:11 AM]