An interesting article here on how the Democratic Party has transformed from a party with a base of blue collar working class Americans to the party of self-proclaimed "educated" elites that express
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a form of social snobbery. To them, to express concern about mass immigration, or reservations about the Obama healthcare plan, is unacceptable in bien-pensant circles because this is simply not the way educated people are supposed to think. It follows that those who do think (and talk) this way are small-minded bigots, rednecks, oiks, or whatever your local code word is for "not the right sort".
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...h-disease.html
The article draws conclusions about how our political system is becoming much more similar now to that of Britain. I find it quite interesting from a political science standpoint.