I took Wilco to be speaking of us liberals here on the Mudcat, or else certain things make no general sense at all.

Still, it's rather easy to construe ever speaking OF the poor and downtrodden as thinking you speak FOR them. It's a rather facile characterization, trotted out to counter any concern with fairness, legality, justice. It has an unfortunate tendency to lend itself as an attack against anyone's concerns about anything.

   The framers of the U.S. constitution--what a bunch of self-righteous, self-aggrandizing, intellectual elites, with their holier-than-thou attitudes, thinking they spoke for the poor, oppressed, and downtrodden. And "give us your tired, your poor..." blah blah blah. What pretentious crap.

   Is there a more self-righteous, self-aggrandizing world view ever put on paper than "these truths we hold to be self-evident"?

I hope it's not one of those "personal attacks" if I think better fun could be made of liberals.