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Jun. 23rd, 2013 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowSen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) recently announced her endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. A disgruntled constituent complained of this to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I don't object to his doing so, but I am bothered by one segment of his letter:
Get a grip. A very large number of Americans - full-fledged citizens, most of them even native-born - do, in fact, support the programs which Ms. Clinton and Sen. McCaskill (the latter however reluctantly) espouse. Another very large number reject them. Failure to acknowledge both facts is at best willful blindness, and at worst flat lying.
We know there are ultra-progressive locales along the coasts and in a rare few other pockets throughout America, but Americans do not like (nor want) the size and the scope and the reach of the government as Sen. McCaskill has engineered it.People who live in the midsection of the country complain, with some justice, of being called "flyover country"; but those "ultra-progressive locales" along the coasts represent more than a quarter of the population of the US, and those "rare few other pockets" - otherwise known as "big cities" - contain an additional large segment. Does the author of this letter claim that these people - who have outnumbered their opponents in five of the last six presidential elections - are not Americans?
Get a grip. A very large number of Americans - full-fledged citizens, most of them even native-born - do, in fact, support the programs which Ms. Clinton and Sen. McCaskill (the latter however reluctantly) espouse. Another very large number reject them. Failure to acknowledge both facts is at best willful blindness, and at worst flat lying.
