Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, recently wrote that the Democratic Party’s problem was elitism.<\/p>\n
Seems we have 56 million elite voters in the country. Strange to call 48% of the voting public elite.<\/p>\n
Union workers are elite? Economically struggling elderly and single moms are not ordinary Americans?<\/p>\n
The genius of deceivers like Karl Rove had been to convince people — including Parker, apparently — that the party of the hyper-rich corporate powers is not<\/em> the party of the elite. As happened a century ago, the American voters will soon realize that they have been offered a false choice between a good and evil.<\/p>\n Frankly, I don’t think electoral choices are a sensible test of a person’s morality. In fact, I’m convinced that most Americans — most humans — share fairly high moral standards. Where Americans honestly differ is how to devise public policies that harmonize with our shared moral sense.<\/p>\n Politics ought to be about resolving those differences regarding public policy, not about who is more moral — and certainly not about privately held morals and values. Karl Rove and his ilk have distorted the political discussion, and cheated the American public out its greatest heritage, a democratic policy-making process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, recently wrote that the Democratic Party’s problem was elitism. Seems we have 56 million elite voters in the country. Strange to call 48% of the voting public elite. Union workers are elite? Economically struggling elderly and single moms are not ordinary Americans? The genius of deceivers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}