What do you think when conservatives call democrats elitists and then call most of the US "The Great Unwashed"

Question

listen to Rush Limbaugh just once for proof that this term is used regularly

he uses it almost every day

Answer 1

Tis a dichotomy indeed. On one hand they accuse Dems of being on welfare. On the other they accuse Dems of being elitists.

Answer 2

I use those terms too. But the elites are democrats and republicans. Rich ones. And the great unwashed is all the rest of us. Liberals and conservatives alike. And we are getting screwed by the elites. Wake up.

Answer 3

Far right rightous hipocrites observing from the sermon in the money pit of mouth. The billboard does not make a man anything more then chemical fat and money fed. Is it not amazing, how M.r Who seems to provide the holy answer for the commoners, and how a little wealth gives the right to judge, and stur the pot to make some more contraversy, to feed the poor a does of humble pie.....and lack of understanding, on the mount of political greed......but i can see how he could have a lack of understanding in his billboard ways and robot mentality......have a good day M.R. Who. I am so glad, I'am not a lush, and can you forgive me , I have forgiven you, Please have a good day . Amen. Peace i will find by example, and faith is found by lack of fear. M.Rush you are the example of what is wrong in America and you do it by indusing fear, and by being a patriot of fear. Where is your love located M.R. rush.

Answer 4

i think of, customarily, that it quite is approximately self-righteousness. the international warming concern, the Iraq conflict concern, the wellbeing care concern - there's a loss of opposition on all of those areas, so as that they are right away thinking, that purely their area of the story is powerful. purely their evaluations could be tolerated, and absolutely everyone disagreeing is the two fascist or purely undeniable stupid, and could right this moment connect the "sturdy area". it quite is an identical with green loonies - attempting to impose their ethical on me besides the reality that i do no longer agree. they haven't any comprehension by any potential that there is dissent - and if there is, carry close the ************, he purely choose the earth destroyed besides. they think of they're ethical greater suitable than "us" grasping, stupid rednecks, and for this reason we could continually no longer be granted freedom of speech - for this reason why many liberals choose Fox information banned from the airwaves. purely their opinion count selection. Oh, btw. that's additionally how communist Russia, China, Cuba and Nazi Germany "artwork(ed)" - see how helpful those societies grew to become? This, of course, is a gross generalization, as i've got met various liberals no longer thinking this sort. i've got purely never seen a libertarian or conservative hotel to violence on each and every occasion somebody would not consider them, while i've got seen that ensue many situations with liberals (or, it quite is, the communist/socialist area of the social gathering. average liberals seem greater vibrant. besides the reality that they do no longer seem to be too extensively represented on the internet).

Answer 5

Well, I think tey stink,too! :)

Seriously, I'm a historian--to me this kind of rhetoric is revealing of the historical/cultural background of the (neo)conservatives. One--not the only--line of cultural heritage traces back to one element of the "Progressive Movement" around the turn of the 20th century. A major part of that movement was a belief on the part of the reformist groups--virtually all white, Christian, and middle class--was a belief that they--and their culture--was superior to everyone else. One branch of that belief system, as it evolved over the following decades, rejoected the notion that birth, etc. determined a person's moral worth or ability. These people nevertheless retained the idea that they--the "educated"--were the oens who had the resources/knowledge to establish (and run) society--all for everyone's best interests, of course. That paternalistic attitude is the downside of today's liberals--a view that their formal qualifications automatically make them qualified to make decisions about other people's lives.

BTW-I am a liberal--but at least I'm aware of and try to NOT allow such views to creep into my thinking. But I do recognize it as a (in fact, THE) key flaw in the thinking of today's liberals, in far too many cases. And the source of the charge of "elitism" (along with the hard fact that liberals are, on average, better educated--at least in terms of formal education).

The other branch of the Progressive worldview retained both the view they were "superior" AND the view that their heritage and culture ws the source of this supposed superiority. This played out in the continued existance of racism in Amrican society, in a belief that difference was automatically negative, and so on. Convinced of cultural superiority, this line of culture came to regard itself--and only itself--as "American," excluding the possibility of any othr culture having a real part or making a real contribution to our society. Further, convinced of their own innate superiority, they downplayed the role of social factors and regarded only the "self-sufficient" as an ideal. And view themselves as such--ignoring the fact that they, jsut like the rest of us, owe as much to society as to our own efforts for where we are in the social world. Yet--at bottom, these--today's neo-conservatives--are just as, if not more, "elitist" as the most patronizing liberal. Both sorts regard the majority of the Amrican people with some derision--as the "great unwashed" fit to be led, but not to be trusted to exercise any real power, even over their own lives.

Personally, I have no use for either sort of elitism. A snotty bast*rd who thinks his don't smell is a overbearing jerk, whatever the political label.

Answer 6

Most academics (highly educated research scientists, professors etc.) are liberal. They are liberal on social and environmental issues. So when he is referring to the "elitists" he really means academics. Many would say that the economic elite in this country are in fact, not liberal. Most people that make a lot of money tend to vote republican. Not based on social issues but on taxation issues. So if you think of the elite as being the academics he is right, but if you think of the elite as the higher income earners he is wrong.

Answer 7

Only the left wing educated are considered the elitists. The democratic party derives much of its power from the ill-informed and the uneducated and from the many left wing constituency groups with their convoluted agendas from gay rights to abortion rights, etc. It would be more proper to say the democratic party is the party of the misfits and the dysfunctional lead by the educated elite

Answer 8

Rush uses it ironically, because that is what he thinks the Dems think of the people at large. It is like him calling Obama the "Magic *****." Someone else called Obama that, but no one complained so he started doing it to make a point.

Answer 9

The great unwashed?? I have never heard any conservative use this term. Nor do I know what it's implication is.

Answer 10

Yeah, I have heard that term. Something about liberal hippies if I remember right. What do I think about it? Couldn't care less.