Dear Matthew McConaughey (actor):
You say that ….. “There is a lot [of people] on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant towards that other 50%.”
Seriously?
You, apparently, have not heard of the Republican Party and the entire right wing of this country if you selectively choose to have a beef with the left when it comes to condescension, patronization, arrogance and out-and-out snobbery. Not only do Republicans and the right tolerate all that, but for many, if not most, looking down their noses on other people is their entire reason for being. But it’s “the left” that bothers you when it comes to snobbery and arrogance? Seriously?
The Republican Party and conservatives have completely sold themselves out to the wealthy elites, the one percent who own 90 percent of the wealth of this country and who seem to think that they, by virtue of that wealth have some kind of God-given right to look upon the rest of the people in this country as if they are their chattel. Talk about condescension and arrogance. You don’t seem the least bit put off by that.
And what about all of those right-wing extremists, like Neo-NAZI’s and white supremacists, who do more than just “condescend” towards others but who, literally, consider themselves to be superior to others due merely to the color of their skin? You cannot get any more snobbish and condescending than that. They are hardly leftists. But it’s “the left” who are fighting against all that that bothers you?
Even those considered to be more “moderate” conservatives, like Mitt Romney have expressed nothing but sheer disdain toward the “47 percent” of the American public that he considers to be reliably Democratic, lumping them all together as “takers” while he, with his multiple mansions and multi-million-dollar portfolio is, somehow, more worthy. Looking down their noses at others is what a large number of Republicans do as a matter of course. And yet, you say you are concerned about the “left” being too patronizing? Really?
The head of today’s Republican Party, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, has expressed nothing but abject disdain, again and again, for immigrants, people of color, Muslims, Asian-Americans, women and others, but it’s “the left” that you find to be arrogant and condescending? Really?
You are appalled at the so-called arrogance of the left, while being willingly blind to the rampant snobbery of the right, including beliefs of out-and-out racial superiority? Seriously?
Get real, Mr. McConaughey.
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