Reason #546,990 Liberals Irk People

This is a great example of liberal elitism:

Our family first arrived in Narrowsburg in 2000, as city people hunting for a cheap house. For barely $50,000 we were able to buy the "weekend house" we thought would complete our metropolitan existence. But soon after we closed on the home, we moved to Paris, spurred by the serendipitous arrival of a book contract. When our European idyll ended after two years, and with tenants still subletting our city apartment, we moved into the Narrowsburg house. After growing accustomed to the French social system -- with its cheap medicine, generous welfare, short workweek and plentiful child care -- life back in depressed upstate New York felt especially harsh. We'd never planned to get involved in the life of the town, nor had it ever occurred to us that we might send our son to the Narrowsburg School. But suddenly we were upstate locals, with a real stake in the community.

Let's parse that for a minute. Praise for the French system without even letting on that that system has essentially reduced France to a second class economy and a slam at good hard-working folks in upstate NY. That will endear you to the locals.

In the fall of 2004, we enrolled our son in kindergarten at the Narrowsburg School. The school's reputation among our friends, other "second-home owners," was not good. "Do they even have a curriculum?" sniffed one New York City professor who kept a weekend home nearby. Clearly, Narrowsburg School was not a traditional first step on the path to Harvard. As far as I could tell, though, no one besides us had ever set foot inside the building. When my husband and I investigated, we were pleasantly surprised. The school had just been renovated and was clean, airy, cheerful. The nurse and the principal knew every one of the 121 children by name. Our son would be one of just 12 little white children in a sunny kindergarten class taught by an enthusiastic woman with eighteen years' experience teaching five-year-olds.

Okay. Where to begin? Perhaps instead of asking the "second-home owners" you should have asked the people whose kids attend the school and live in and own only a primary house. Second, a professor sniffing about curriculum? That's funny considering most university professors teach according to what they want, not a curriculum.

Let's continue: "Our son would be one of just 12 little white children..." Uh, what the hell does it matter if they were white, black or purple?

Now the real truth behind this woman comes out:

Still, for the first few months, we felt uneasy. Eighty of Narrowsburg's 319 adults are military veterans and at least 10 recent school graduates are serving in Iraq or on other bases overseas right now. The school's defining philosophy was traditional and conservative, starting with a sit-down-in-your-seat brand of discipline, leavened with a rafter-shaking reverence for country and flag. Every day the students gathered in the gym for the "Morning Program," open to parents, which began with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a patriotic song, and then discussion of a "word of the week." During the first few weeks, the words of the week seemed suspiciously tied to a certain political persuasion: "Military," "tour," "nation" and "alliance" were among them.

You could almost hear her saying "we support the troops, but..." I wonder how many people in the neighborhood that are not "second-home owners" she's had over for coffee or a glass of wine? My guess is not very many.

Go read the entire piece and you will see why Americans abhor liberals. The only people who like libs is other libs inside their comfy coccoons in Boston, NYC, Philly and Washington, DC.

It's funny to read of the womans shock that people really do love their country, it's military and the Judeo-Christian principles that guided our forefathers.