Michael Moore Gets It

No seriously. He gets it.

But before everyone gets all smug and self-righteous about the Palin selection, remember where you live. You live in a nation of gun owners and hunters. You live in a country where one out of three girls get pregnant before they are 20. You live in a nation of C students. Knocking Bush for being a C student only endeared him to the nation of C students. Knock Palin for having kids, for having a kid who's having a baby, for anything that is part of her normalness -- a normalness that looks very familiar to so many millions of Americans -- well, you do this at your own peril. Assuming she's still on the ticket two weeks from now, she will be a much tougher opponent than anyone expects.
Now I have read the rest of the piece so you don't have to. And I really don't recommend it. It is his usual load of crap.

But in that one paragraph he shows that he at least knows the American scene. He may not like it. But he does know it.

Cross Posted at Power and Control

posted by Simon on 09.08.08 at 06:10 AM





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"C" used to be a respectable grade before grade inflation. It meant "average, fat part of the bell curve." It didn't used to mean failure. It meant an adequate amount of success.

The problem with elitocracy is everybody wants to be part of the elite. Problem is, most people, even most smart people, are C students. They can try real hard and maybe get a B in an honest grading system (this is in school, at work, wherever). But most of the time they're going to not make an A. They can slack off a bit, and may still pull a C, but on the honest system of grading they'll deserve a D, still passing but needs a bit more effort.

Where everybody has to be exceptional to be considered normal, nobody can be exceptional. You have to lower the bar for success to make that happen. Lionize Harvard grads all you want - I find most of them average bright, and a lot of the ones I've met severely deficient in understanding how their brilliant ideas will play in the real world. The mundane and hard-to-accept fact for people who have been told all their lives that they are uniquely brilliant, is that life doesn't really require a lot of unique brilliance. Instead it requires a little bit of basic smarts, and a whole lot of hard work.

That's a tough pill to swallow if you've been raised in a town where every child is at least slightly above average...

Al Maviva   ·  September 8, 2008 09:24 AM

Of course, Bush wasn't a C student, that's just one of the liberal lies. He wasn't exceptional, but he was just a little bit better than fellow Yalie John Kerry.

tim maguire   ·  September 8, 2008 11:08 AM

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