Maggie's Farm

Which "educated class" do you mean, News Junkie?

What I have observed in our society since the Resident was elected confirms many of my own prejudices about our so-called "educated classes."`. I was born in the Middle West [Chicago, as a matter of fact] to two parents whose ancestral roots were from the East Coast. Because of this, I was sent to the East for my college education. What a revelation that was! Many of the folks I met in college assumed that I was a] ill-educated, b] unsophisticated, a hick from a vast desert of simple folks, and c]incapable of independent thought and decision. All wrong, by the way. I survived, but grew to dislike the ingrained snobbery of the privileged elites on campus that carelessly assumed so many false things. But outside of the campus, I found many delightful people, like those here at Maggies, who had deep roots in the older states, who loved the land and delighted in the people it nurtured. New England particularly charmed me, because of its sturdy people up and down the economic scale who had so much basic good sense and stubborn determination to be and remain independent.

I found many of these same characteristics here in the people of Texas. Texans yearn to build their own fortunes and most are greatly successful. Many Northerners don't understand Texans, or indeed most Southerners. In my forty years of living here, I have learned to love and respect Southern courtesy, courage, restless urge to achieve, and willingness to accept strangers who might become friends.

So ... does the GOP need the "Educated class?" Which one are we talking about? The vast group of grown-up responsible folks who spontaneously began to rebel against "the establishment" and organized themselves into Tea Party groups, to go to Washington and express peaceably their anger and disgust at the direction in which our country was being led? These folks were mostly well educated scholastically and practically, and unusually thoughtful and attentive to the changes in our beloved country.

It distresses me that we Americans have become so diverse so quickly that we have failed to rejoice in the wonderful courage and sweetness of our native born Americans, some of whose roots reach back to before the United States was a country. And they are all around us. I'd say that the GOP needs all the educated folks with real world experience and achievements that they can find. The GOP can find these folks, if they will listen to them and respect them for their real world knowledge and achievements.

As for 'les autres' to use a snobby French expression ... the heck with them!

Marianne