Park Slope: The Blue Half of the Two Americas
As we saw in the Brooklyn political donations map last week, Brooklyn tilts heavily toward the blue. Perhaps that’s why the British newspaper The Guardian chose it to represent left-leaning America. “If New York city epitomises liberal America; and if Park Slope, a neighbourhood of Brooklyn heavily peopled by writers, artists and other creative souls,…
As we saw in the Brooklyn political donations map last week, Brooklyn tilts heavily toward the blue. Perhaps that’s why the British newspaper The Guardian chose it to represent left-leaning America. “If New York city epitomises liberal America; and if Park Slope, a neighbourhood of Brooklyn heavily peopled by writers, artists and other creative souls, epitomises left-leaning New York; then the co-op epitomises left-leaning Park Slope.” That’s where they perched to poll Obamamaniacs about their feelings, which were “somewhere between excitement that Obama might be about to win, and uncontrollable anxiety that the Democratic cause was about to be ravaged once again.” Apparently, anxiety is the prevailing sentiment. “One Park Slope food co-op member said a man in her block of apartments had stopped shaving until victory day; his beard was already long and bushy. Elsewhere across the liberal heartlands, a woman from Denver was reported to have put her love life on hold until the Colorado result came in, while a psychotherapist from Manhattan’s Upper West Side said about 90% of her patients were raising electoral fears in their therapy sessions.” By tonight, folks should be able to revert to shaving, dating discussing their parents in analysis, one way or another. By the way, the other America? Orange, Texas. “‘I am not for socialism. Let’s just put it at that way,’ [the voter] snapped and then stalked angrily into the local Wal-Mart.”
Fear and Loathing Divide Two Americas on Eve of Vote [Guardian]
Photo by atdubya.
The McCain campaig’s motto has been “Anyone smarter than Sarah Palin is an elitist commie terrorist sympathizer,” and yet the media is apparently to blame for his defeat.
AND WHERE CAN I GET THAT AWESOME POSTER?????
NorthSlopeRenter (how appropriate)
Pelosi, Barney Frank, Al Greenspan & Bill Clinton all allowed the housing bubble to facilitate, not the conservatives. Ignorant liberal
Northsloperenter;
If you look at my post above, I don’t hide from the fact that Republicans deserve to be taken to account. Having said that, your analysis is above is the stuff for cable-TV foodfights, not for a thoughtful discussion. In particular, your analysis of the credit bubble is way off the mark, in that it was a bi-partisan affair, which the NYT recently documented.
Who signed the law that deregulated the banks? Bill Clinton.
When the head of the Federal bureau that regulates commidities (a woman whose name escapes me at the moment) argued that credit derivatives ought to be regulated in the same manner, who went to “pay her a visit” and shut her down: Robert Rubin (a democrat), Larry Summers (ditto) and Alan Greenspan (republican).
The fact is that both parties have feasted off of cheap money, for different reasons. It will be interesting to see how they react in the years ahead.
I am dismayed that neither candidate had the political courage to give it straight to the American people. Both went around promising new benefits like candy, when both know full well that they should be preparing us for a new era of austerity. Neither called for sacrifice.
It is going to be interesting to watch, no matter who wins.
That was awesome northslope!
I live in a totally different Park Slope than you Polemicist.
I don’t recognize the one you speak of.
Dear Bitter Conservatives,
You had your chance. You did. You really did.
You fucked it up. You did. You really did.
You failed to eliminate our enemies and instead created new enemies.
You did not have the fortitude to cut spending. You buried us in debt instead.
You allowed widespread fraud to create a massive credit bubble which is now bursting to the detriment of all hard working Americans.
You did all of this, and the whole time you tried to paper it over by lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies. Some of you still cling tightly to you lies, so tightly that I wonder if you really ever had anything other than lies to offer.
You had your chance.
You fucked it up.
Your chance is over.
Signed,
A moderate independent
Ahh, Socialism. Only good when it’s saving our capitalist asses. Screw that, I can’t wait until he imposes the Koran and Gay Sex on us all. Incongruous, sure, but who cares??? I’ve been troubled, however, with why God would make the antichrist Black. I never thought God was into Affirmative Action. Barack’s gonna get the job then become depressed when he realizes he’s woefully unqualified. That’s just mean, God.
Screw Barack Sadan Hussein Osamam Joe BInlaDEN.
Vote for Ron Paul
Park Slopers know nothing.
Ignorant bunch
Capitalists and free marketers will always find a way to make money. Here, China, Spain, everywhere. Opportunity is knocking right now.