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Regarding the promotion of "sorryeverybody", and the author's line:

"And we'll say we're sorry, even on the behalf of the ones who aren't."

If anyone knows the author of sorryeverybody, please tell him not make any 
apology or statement of any kind on my behalf. Nobody likes arrogance, but my 
distaste for hypocrisy is ten times stronger. Liberal arrogance is perhaps 
the most self-defeating characteristic of the left, and I pray the party 
cures that poison before they become irrelevant.

His promise to apologize "for" me epitomizes why the left keeps losing 
ground, and why many of them were 'shocked' at the election results. 
Obviously he doesn't need, or even want my permission to apologize, because 
in his wisdom I am too stupid, and he must make that decision for me whether 
I understand it or not. Unbelievable. This is so patently unAmerican, 
anti-1person-1voice, that I cannot understand how others cannot see the 
danger. Many of the democratic party, at least the vocal media, celebs, and 
pundits, do not seem to understand how arrogant and elitist they are. Here 
are a few other quotes post-election from truthout.org:

"I'm saddened by what I feel is the obtuseness and shortsightedness of a good 
part of the country - the heartland," Dr. Joseph said. "This kind of redneck, 
shoot-from-the-hip mentality..." -[and I'm saddened and disgusted with the 
elitist's assumption that they cannot be wrong, and thus all opposition MUST 
be ignorant slobs. It continutes to push many thinking people away from the 
left. I refuse to assist a party that looks down at such a large majority of 
the citizens of this country. It turns my stomach as much as those looking 
down on a particular race or etchnicity.

"New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in 
the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say." -[in other words, 
"we are smart, they are stupid hicks." I would wonder how people so smart and 
savvy had no inkling that they would lose the pop vote, ground in senate and 
house, and the leading dem senator, but I realize it is a closed society that 
keeps telling themselves they are so smart]

"People who are more competitive and proficient at what they do tend to 
gravitate toward cities," he said. 
-[obviously, the city slickers know best what is good for the fly-over 
states, so the dumb hicks should just stick to farming and let the two coasts 
run the country.]

Wake up left, and start listening to your fellow citizens, instead of 
vilifying them. I care about you, and voted with you for 20 years. I did not 
vote for Bush this year, but there is no way I can condone the behavior of 
the left enough to help. I went third party, just to register my opposition 
to arrogance and ignorance on both sides.

Regarding the following Blandus blog quote, I would add "and it cost you the 
election":
"Conservatives think Liberals are wrong. Liberals think Conservatives are 
stupid. There is a big difference between wrong and stupid. Wrong implies an 
understanding of argument and willingness to acknowledge different points of 
view. Stupid implies an elitist arrogance that is at times comic and sad and 
at others subversive and dangerous. "

I don't post all this to anger or trouble, but to suggest the need to find 
new voices and vision for your party. There are many influential, powerful, 
intelligent achievers across the country's midwest that will take offense at 
the accusation of backwardness, made simply because they disagree on policy 
or live in a small town.

D