And ANOTHER reason we Democrats lost and will continue to lose

[Hekate]

100. Several years ago I was gobsmacked to realize I was one of the hated "elites" ...

I grew up kinda poor, and my parents finally achieved a kind of blue collar middle class life about the time I graduated high school. Nothing “elite” about that, right?

But oh did they love books. My dad bought both the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Great Books, and my mom got all of us library cards very early.

Neither of them had had the money to finish college, but mom thought a college degree was the Holy Grail, and she pushed all 4 of us to go to public college, work our way through, and get that degree. Community college, public universities — what’s “elite” about that? It’s sure not Harvard or MIT or Yale.

In midlife I went back to graduate school to study a subject I loved, just because I loved it. Okay, that was privileged.

But about the time Bush-Cheney were ushered into Washington, I finally realized that the GOP was talking about the likes of me and my siblings when they went on and on about “elites.” Not the Bushes or Rockefellers or Bill Gates or Bezos — but me and mine, who loved education for its own sake as well as career prospects. We were the hated, despised, elites because we pursued higher education.

Like I said on election night — what a stupid, stupid country.