47% Condescension

A friend of mine put up this Daily Kos “letter to the 53%er” whose image and letter have been showing up all over the place.

I was disgusted by the condescension, and maybe that’s because I’m a working class asshole like that guy in his photo.

But liberals – oh, I love you liberals, and know that I’m one of you – really sometimes get caught up in their own superiority to such a degree that I don’t want to be a part of them at all. I understand, when I read a letter like that, guys like the 53% who think we’re all a bunch of overeducated elites.

So here’s my letter to that guy:

Dude, watch the movie Animal Farm. You’re the horse. Don’t fall for it.