I brought up Fowler because I thought he represented the sort of elitist, snobbish, clique that tends to run these NGO’s and have a deep resentment for all things American. I’m sure that the producers of that show coach their contestants to go a little over the top. But the level of insults to this woman’s intelligence, and by proxy, to the intelligence of Americans in flyover country was astounding. Fowler and his ilk were the audience for Obama’s famous “bitter gun clinging religious small town folk” remarks. Usually these types try to hide the depth of their contempt, but sometimes the mask slips, as it did in this case. Just thought it was worth of pointing out.

What Fowler shows is a lack of compassion, and no sense of decency or decorum. I happen to believe that while there may be some truly idealistic and good people in these NGO’s, most sooner or later, end up like Fowler. How much do they truly care for the poor slobs they claim they are trying to help? Or do they just look down on them and feel free to order them around? How much did the communists care for the worker? I have read several news stories about NGO employees raping local girls. How common is that?

I think this is an important point. If the majority of leftist NGO types think that the poor and downtrodden they claim to be trying to help are unintelligent and uncultured then their prescription for the lot of the poor will be to deprive them of freedom, and provide them with the merest level of survival. They might be inclined to set them up in camps where they will be expected to live for decades, being provided just enough sustenance to keep them somewhat quiet and enslaved to their handouts, but not enough to stamp out the sullen resentment their subjects feel. Oh wait… that sounds familiar….