http://nypost.com/2024/05/13/opinion/nancy-pelosi-yet-again-reveals-democrats-disdain-for-average-americans/
By Joe Concha
Opinion
The New York Post
May 13, 2024
Do Democrats have contempt for Americans who aren’t part of the richest 1% or don’t live in cities on the coast?
This query comes after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made an outrageous comment during a recent Oxford Union debate, calling those who may see themselves as part of the populist movement just “poor souls who are looking for some answers.”
“We’ve given [answers] to them, but they’re blocked by some of their views on guns. They have the three Gs: guns, gays, God,” huffed the the 84-year-old Pelosi. “That would be a woman’s right to choose — and the cultural issues cloud some of their reception of an argument that really is in their interest.”
How utterly condescending, albeit not surprising considering the elitist bubble that Pelosi — who, along with her husband, is worth north of $100 million — lives in.
She’s clearly saying, in other words, that if these “poor souls” weren’t so brainwashed and would listen to the way Democrats would like them to think, they would see that the Democratic Party and its agenda is a perfect fit for them.
They’re just too dumb or delusional to realize it.
The sanctimonious sentiment brings back memories of Barack Obama’s perspective on struggling working-class voters during a private fundraiser in San Francisco back in 2008.
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” Obama said in comments he didn’t know were being recorded.
He would later apologize, but only because there was an election to be won that year.
But let’s be clear: Obama meant every word.
We hear this pious perspective again and again from those who claim to represent working men and women.
Another case in point: One could argue that a critical turning point in the 2016 presidential election occurred when Hillary Clinton called half of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.”
“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton declared in a September 2016 speech to donors in New York, which included Barbra Streisand. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that.”
Hillary went on to lose, of course, all thanks to working-class voters in Rust Belt states like Wisconsin and Michigan who went for Trump.
Make no mistake: These aren’t gaffes. These are pompous Democrats telling us what they truly believe.
The party of the little guy has become the party of coastal elites.
The numbers back it up: Of the richest 10 congressional districts in the country, all are represented by Democrats.
But hey, at least the party’s leader is the current president, “Scranton” Joe Biden, right?
Well, Scranton Joe has turned in his small-town credentials for two multimillion-dollar homes, including one on the beach in Delaware.
And when Biden goes on vacation, he’s off to his good buddy Tom Steyer’s $18 million waterfront mansion in Lake Tahoe.
Or he flies to Nantucket to stay with private equity boss David Rubenstein, whose home sits on 18 acres on the water and is valued at $34 million.
You know, regular folk …
This may be yet another reason why Trump is leading on average in every swing state: He connects with regular people, especially those who feel like the Democratic Party looks down on them … because maybe they own a gun or practice religion.
The horror.
Nancy Pelosi. Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden.
They may claim to be more caring about the plight of average Americans, the struggles of ordinary families who value their faith.
Yet their words and actions say otherwise, and the perception matches reality: Democrats have disdain for the very voters they claim to champion.
In November, that perception could very well cost them the power they value most.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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