David Corn of Mother Jones can’t believe that people who are not rich would be opposed to raising taxes of higher income people. He can’t understand why they would not want handouts from the government. He tells a McCain supporter that Obama promises to cut his taxes so why won’t he vote for Obama.
This is an interesting exhibition of intellectual snobbery that is omnipresent on the Left. Ask them if they vote their principles or their wallet and they will tell you how principled they are. The so-called intellectuals have always told us they disdain mere money-grubbing; they live on a higher plane. But “little people” are a lower order; a class that is supposed to respond to economic stimuli alone. They are little better than animals reacting in a Pavlovian way to economic stimuli. The assumption is that principles are for the upper classes, the Literati, the Intellectuals, the David Corns of this world.
It would be an interesting experiment to ask David Corn what he earns and whether he will vote solely on behalf of his pocketbook. He would, I'm sure take it as an insult. But he apparently feels that the "little people" are insult-proof.
Reminds me of the French aristocrats in a “Tale of Two Cities.” That did not end well.
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