Waylon Jennings had a great line in one of his songs where he said that he “was too dumb for New York City, too ugly for LA.” Speaking from my seat here in fly-over country, I actually think he was probably just fine.
When you get caught up in the swirl of the big city hustle, shysters and slick johnnies work you over, and turn you upside down until all the change falls out of your pockets. Then they turn you loose, usually a bit wiser . . . unless you are, say, a Republican congressman voting for Hope n’Change 7.0, guaranteed this time to be 100% bug free. On the left coast, in the lalaland of LAland, the radical left displays an ongoing compassion for the downtrodden, a compassion just as real as all their tans, and every bit as deep. Combine the two, and you have the ruling class as we find it in the District of Corruption. After we have been decanted from Dulles or Reagan National, we need not look far to find the fraudsters of Foggy Bottom, the profligates of the Potomac, the racketeers of the Republic, the lubricity of the lawyers, the greed of grafters, and the blooming honeysuckle of malfeasance. I just threw that last one in.
The people doing this to us are quite shameless, and this is why it continues to work. The people on the receiving end are not shameless, and cannot quite imagine that the ruling class would say and do the things they do, knowing them to be entirely false. But they are false, and they do know.
We should be extremely grateful that more and more people are seeing the con.