Of course not; I'm simply Deplorable.  So let's part with this nugget of wisdom from an old Weekly Standard column:

"Perhaps it is that at universities--through which pass all small-town people aiming to climb to a higher social class--Democratic party affiliation is the sine qua non of being taken for a serious, non-hayseed human being.

For these people, liberalism is not a belief at all. No, it's something more important: a badge of certain social aspirations.  That is why the laments of the small-town leftists get voiced with such intemperance and desperation. As if those who voice them are fighting off the nagging thought: 'If the Republicans aren't particularly evil, then maybe I'm not particularly special.'"
Christopher Caldwell, 'Smiley's People', 29 Nov 2004

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