Reply #17: Here's Your Exact Quote

[DemocratSinceBirth]

"Hillary Rodham Clinton, herself a product of the Ivy League, one of the wealthy, powerful elite, is trying to cut out the heart of the Democratic party by pandering to the uneducated, the anti-intellectual, the bigoted, in her words the "hard working Americans, white Americans". "

What other inference was I supposed to make?

I do think some folks without a lot of education resent folks with a lot of education because they lord it over them... However, I think most folks put a high premium on education and few folks deride it...

As to your suggestion that working class folks weren't part of the traditional Democratic tradition I disagree... The New Deal coalition that endured for nearly fifty years with some occasional fissures consisted of working class folks, African Americans, Jews, and intellectuals...


And as I said sometime I would rather cast my lot and spend time with someone who got a PhD in Life as opposed to a PhD from Harvard...