A government of the people?
Often people will talk about how out of touch and elitist politics are. Most are born into wealth and live luxurious lives that most the rest of us can’t imagine. To make up for this, most politicians have lots of staged photo-ops so they appear to be just a regular guy: for example, John Kerry ate at Wendy’s during the presidential election and Bush regularly pretends to do yard work at his ranch.
Occasionally though, they slip up, with very humorous results. Chuck Schumer, “the other senator from New York”, recently wrote a small article in Time, with the following passage (emphasis mine):
Biking through New York’s boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them. To me, they represent the hardworking and often-ignored families who are not tuned in to special-interest newsletters or editorial pages, but want a little something more from their government and their leaders.
So I guess Schumer doesn’t know any hard-working American families, and rather than actually take the time to get to know some of his constituents, he’d rather just make it up in his head.
Which is disappointing considering that he’s about to publish a book called, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time.
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