Hey, guys, I said she "has a real knack for relating to a lot of working class people" (meaning working class people in the USA)...and she does. That's a fact. I did NOT say that I agree with those working class people whom she appeals to. I don't.

For instance, I think a certain amount of socialism is a very good thing, whereas those working class Americans I'm referring to think it's a synonym for "satanism" or "communism" or "dictatorship" or something else along that line...

Obviously, it's the American white working class people on the Right that I'm referring to, and there are a lot of them. They're small town and rural whites across America. They're the people who can be counted on to vote Republican in any election, if they vote at all. There aren't enough of them, however, to win an American election anymore on their own, providing that the Democrats run a good campaign...and the Democrats have done that in the last 2 presidential elections. The Democrats have always (well, since 1964, that is) drawn their political strength from the big cities, the populous liberal Northeast, and the populous and very liberal West Coast. The Republicans (since 1964) have drawn their strength from the Deep South, the conservative rural areas and small towns, and most of the central west and southwest areas which also tend to be conservative. Those are what are called the "Red States". Alaska is also a "Red state", and Sarah Palin's popularity was quite strong there.

To classify all those people automatically as "morons" makes you feel gloriously wonderful, I know. You so enjoy denigrating them and feeling better than them. But what they are is simply millions of people who've grown up hearing a certain cultural viewpoint (one very different from yours or mine) since they were kids, they've become accustomed to it, they defend it, and that shapes the way they think about things. I knew a lot of those people when I lived in rural New York State. I didn't agree with them about almost anything political, but they sure as hell were not all stupid. No way. They ran the gamut from very smart to average to stupid, and everything else you can name, just like other people do.

Never make the mistake of underestimating your opposition. Just keep in mind that they've probably made that same mistake in regards to you. They probably think you're a moron too, just because you don't agree with them.

Well, it ain't that simple.