Lamont Supporters
This surprises me. All the news reports I read say that Ned Lamont (C) is getting his biggest support from the wealthy towns in CT. The blue-collar working stiffs are going for Joe.
Although, it shouldn’t surprise me. “Troubles” is probably a better word. I thought that I was a raging classist - I can’t stand people who intentionally live down to stereotypes crafted for them by power-hustlers, nor can I tolerate people who yearn for victim status in the hopes of a hand-out. But this support for Lamont reeks of classism of a far nastier sort.
Lamont is anti a whole lot of shit. Big business, national defense, free markets. He’s for an immediate pullout of Iraq, and probably wouldn’t be too interested in defending the homeland either. He’s in favor of a nationalized (universal, he calls it) health-care system - financed by business taxes (especially against Wal-Mart).
The people who support him in the whole anti-war thing are the same ones that Charlie Rangel (D-NY) was targetting in his disingenuous attempt to revive the draft. He said point blank that if rich white suburbanites were in danger of having their kids sent off to fight “Bush’s war” that they’d rise up and stop him. It would appear that Rangel was right, at least as far as it concerns the Volvo and Brie set.
The people who support his whole anti-business agenda are, in my opinion, looking to transfer whatever meager wealth that the poor have to themselves (through subsidized health care) or at least prevent them getting any more. I mean, who do they think is going to be hurt by increasing the tax burden on Wal-Mart? They don’t shop there. They don’t work there. Their kids certainly won’t work there. But someone’s gonna have to make up for the money that Lamont wants to hoover out of Wal-Mart’s wallet.
And that someone is the lower and middle class. The ones that shop at Wal-Mart because everything’s cheap. The ones that work at Wal-Mart because they’ll accomodate odd work schedules.
Isn’t it bad enough that these limousine liberals have chased almost all industry from Connecticut because they didn’t like the dirt and the noise? Now they want to chase small businesses and retail from the state too?
If Lamont ends up being our Senator, I’ll be ashamed to say I’m from this pathetic state.