Richard Cohen defends "traditional" people's bigotry.

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-christies-tea-party-problem/2013/11/11/a1ffaa9c-4b05-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html

"Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all."

[upaloopa]

1. Well get use to it. If this isn't your country why the

hell are you here?

[PoliticalPothead]

2. Isn't this the same guy

who defended Zimmerman by saying that his suspicions were justifiable because hoodies are "uniforms for thugs" or something like that? This guy is straight up racist, and it's sad that the Washington Post actually publishes his disgusting nonsense.

[frazzled]

3. "Conventional"

is the term he used, I believe, rather than "traditional." God forbid such racism is associated with the conventional view in today's America.

"Expansion of government" was avant-garde? Not since the early 1930s. Not even maybe then. Ditto for immigration (my grandparents came here in the 1910s and were for the most part welcomed into their new land) and secularism (around since Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers).

But somehow, to Richard Cohen, people who hate government programs such as Social Security and Medicare, who despise immigrants and want to send them packing, and who try to inject their particular brand of tyrannical Christianity into government programs are the "conventional" ones.

No, sir, these people represent the nonconventional view of America. That's why they gag when they see Mayor de Blasio's family. The rest of us are, as they say, "all right, Jack."