Note to clueless libs: The offending word is not “bitter” but “cling”
We on the right get that people can be bitter if they believe that politicians ignore them.
But it’s the “they cling to guns or religion… as a way to explain their frustrations.” bit that’s annoying.
In other words, to Obama the problem is that the people of middle America are too stupid to listen to him and his lib-elite friends. If they did they wouldn’t “cling” to antiquated things like religion (“opiate of the masses”) or guns.
It’s all false-consciousness stuff. Some years ago a lib named Thomas Frank: wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America” a book that essentially says the same thing; that the people of middle America are stupid and so vote on matters like guns and abortion, whereas if only they were enlightened like Frank they’d vote their “true economic interests” ie Democrat.
