I can see why you might think that way
Posted on 09/14/2008 11:59:23 PM PDT by MartinaMisc
When I was a kid, rumor had it that “antidisestablishmentarianism” was the longest word in the English language. I actually looked it up once, and discovered it had something to do with the status of the Church of England — which sort of took the fun out of the word. But in college, I decided I liked the idea of defending the establishment against those who sought to disestablish it.
Well, I’m older now, and have consorted a bit with various establishments. To know them is not to love them. I’m now a disestablishmentarian. I’ve come to believe that, to (loosely) paraphrase Jefferson, the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the wreckage of torpedoed establishments and the shards of overturned conventional wisdom.
The good news is that 2008 has been a thoroughly refreshing year. After two decades of Bush and Clinton and Bush presidencies, we’re getting change.
On the Democratic side, the Clinton machine supposedly couldn’t be beaten. It was. In the first real upset in either party’s nominating process in a long time, first-term senator Barack Obama mobilized new voters, volunteers and donors in a way that hadn’t been thought possible, and defeated Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party — which had nominated a Bush for president or vice president in six of the last seven elections — chose as its nominee a troublemaker who was George W. Bush’s main challenger in 2000 and his sharp critic for much of his administration. John McCain wasn’t on particularly good terms with either the G.O.P. establishment or the leaders of the conservative movement — yet he won. He then put on a Republican convention that barely acknowledged the existence of the current Republican administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Gotta love it!! Let the leftist cultural "elites" (according to themselves) head to their favorite cocktail clubs to cry in their Cosmopolitans.....
Gloria Steinem is turning over in her grave!! [oh, that's right, she's still with us..... well she must feel like she's turning over in her grave already]
The Politically Correct Left (who’ve been pushing for their agenda for 40 years) ARE the New Establishment. They claim to OWN the issues of race politics, women politics, gender politics, and “personal” issues.
Personal liberty and personal responsiblity are not among those issues.
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