A bit of projection on your own part there - I was actually one of those on the right-hand side of the academic bell curve in high school. Lots of scholarship money, awards, etc. One of the things I couldn't stomach in some of my fellow National Honor Society, accelerated-math-and-science, A-track crowd was the utter and complete arrogance they had with regards to their fellow students. They liked to insulate themselves from those they considered "beneath" them, tried to impart their particular snippets of wisdom via the school newspaper (which they controlled), and made a point of making themselves the beknighted "voice of the students" to administrators. These same kids considered my having non-Honors kids as friends as "slumming."Bizzarofelice wrote:Projection. I don't know if Clinton types were beating you up in high school, but the chip on your shoulder is all in your head.Mike the Lab Rat wrote:he is one of those self-appointed "I'm smarter than you" folks who believes himself above us mere mortals.
... and on your shoulder.
A lot of these self-important pricks went on to become the insufferable boors we had to listen to at college parties and in the bars. The whole "if people like US were allowed to run the world" idealism was mixed with an almost sneering contempt for the great unwashed who didn't share their (usually leftist) worldviews, familial financial advantages, or education. I saw a ton of that arrogance and hypocrisy in several of my hippy-dippy poli sci major fraternity brothers - otherwise fine folks who couldn't help but look down on those who had a different outlook on life & politics. The phrase 'I don't see how you can think that way' was big in their arguments. It never occurred to them that equally intelligent, well-meaning, and educated folks could be .....[gasp] not liberal.
From what I've heard and read about Clinton and his college buds, he fit right into that stereotype.
Granted, the current administration has the same arrogance, but from a right-wing religious POV, but all I was pointing out is why some folks, my self included, have never bought into the myth of "Wonderful Bill Clinton."
edit: I almost forgot the Clinton-worshippers I dealt with as professors when I was getting my MSEd...these arrogant fuckers actually haughtily would tell us as students that the reason some of us didn't believe we were being "oppressed" was because we had been so brainwashed by the "white heterosexist patriarchal hegemony." In other words, our professors basically told the students that were too stupid to understand that they were oppressed. Typical.
