Several of you must have seen the David Brooks article
He seems to be getting saner by the day.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
I would like to share with you a prime example of such a class war ignited in another part of the world and how it could ( should ) be avoided.
I am from India but live in the United States. India, as many of you would know is hopelessly divided across social classes ( though Constitutionally, Legally, Judicially Indians are all the same. I am proud of the Constitution that India has).
In the late 1980s, there was a Prime Minister of India called V.P. Singh who to consolidate his own position unlocked a Pandora's box of legislation that took the lid off and reignited the class war in a way never seen before ( Google on Mandal Report to see more on this if you are interested). India has never been the same again.
I see many parallels to Sarah Palin stoking similar fires here, talking about Small Town Values and Joe Six Packs, as if Barack Obama and Joe Biden would not understand anything about the Joe Six Packs. Would any American want a Joe Six Pack to run the most important country in the world. We need the Smartest People to run the country.
As the Hannah Montana song goes " The best of Both the Worlds" Sarah Palin is the perfect amalgam of the Intellectual Incuriousity of Bush and the Secrecy, Power Hungriness and the Intellectual Dishonestfulness of Cheney.
That is a combo that I dread.