Like our current Pope, she only has a few ideas rattling abound in her skull, and non-sequiturs or not, she hangs on to them like a drowning man hanging on to a life preserver.
Middle Class Redux
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I’ve heard this troupe enough now that I finally figured out where I’d heard it before, it’s the opening to the old Steve Martin movie “The Jerk” . I think it’s much funnier in the movie. Clip link below, enjoy!
https://youtu.be/5NeS4ueaU6w?si=p90JrkD3Q2KMeo4q
A Marxist identifies by class. Real Americans identify by creed.
All the difference in the world.
One says these are my circumstances. The other says this is my allegiance.
The first tells you their problems with the expectation you will fix them. The other tells you their way of life and requests you not impede them.
Consequential presidential candidates whose parents were wage-earners or the equivalent would be (among others) John Kasich (postman), Marco Rubio (building custodian), Newt Gingrich (Army sergeant), Mike Huckabee (various, including billing clerk for the local utility), John Edwards (textile mill worker until middle age, salaried supervisor afterward), Alan Keyes (Army sergeant), Richard Gephardt (delivery driver for a dairy), Jesse Jackson (postman), and Gary Hart (railway worker), Robert Dole’s family was notionally middle class, but their business revenue imploded during the Depression as they lived in the section of the country hit worse than any other. Ronald Reagan’s family (commission sales and small retail) was also notionally middle class, but more impecunious than many wage earners. Trump, Mitt Romney, Steve Forbes, Al Gore, Pat Robertson, and the Bushes (father and son) are about the only notable presidential candidates of the last 50 years who came from backgrounds unambiguously tonier than hers.
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I think her other stock phrase–“unburdened by what has been”–was pilfered from a Star Trek series (not sure which one–I’m not a fan, except of the campy, cringey original). Someone on Twitter/X gave the season and episode number.
Actually Trump’ mother, Mary Anne MacLeod was born on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 1912. She spoke Scottish Gaelic. English was her second language which she learned in secondary school. Her father was a crofter (tenant farner), fisherman and a compulsory officer at her school. Mary was the youngest of 10 and left for New York in 1929 to stay with a sibling. She was a nanny and a domestic worker. Through the yars she visited Scotland many times and spoke Gaelic whenver she visited.
Mary was naturalized in 1942. Her husband Fred was a builder. Although with 5 children she was mostly a homemaker she did help her husband with the real estate business. The couple bacame upwardly mobile as we all know. She drove a Rolls Royce in later years. In 2016 the National, a Scottish paper stated, “she “started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land.”
The Donald on his maternal side is a first generation American.
Yes, if brains were donuts, hers would be the hole in the middle.