I would tell the author to sit down and enjoy a nice steaming hot cup of STFU!!!
Then again, the more time they spend on backward-looking resentment, the more they alienate the average American, who is NOT as stupid as these snobs think they are!
The more the whining and moaning, the larger the Rats next loss.
The real reasons so many Rats were dis-enfranchised is because the lines at the needle exchange were so long, or the Rat voters couldn't find the X-box game controller in the voting booth.