Reply #1: I think that both sexism and racism in this race are comparatively trivial

[lumberjack_jeff]

compared to the class issues.
If you believe that our nominee should primarily promote the interests of working class people
- unregulated immigration isn't a good thing.
- access to health care should be universal.
- explaining to wealthy donors at a livingroom shakedown that you can get the votes of the ignorant rubes because you understand why they "cling" to their silly superstitions is inadvisable.

The ridicule of "toothless West Virginians" does no one any good. Like most Obama supporters, they are democrats too, and there is no reason to conclude that they are any more ignorant than voters in Mississippi and there is even less justification to believe that they should not be participants in our democracy.

Read this article, and especially the comments, and tell me that elitism plays no role in our politics. According to this, no one votes for John Edwards unless it's because they hate blacks, hate women and can't read.

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/8571-john-edwards-james-lowe

This above video encapsulates why I'm a democrat.