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...distant like Indiana or California, I might have found comfort in raging against the injustice of East Coast elitism. My problem was that by my senior year in high school, I was already an insufferable East Coast snob. So by the social standards of suburban Connecticut in the mid-1960s, the multiple rejections consigned me to the outer darkness, destined to be shunned on commuter trains, blackballed at country clubs and never allowed to buy a home in a community with four-acre zoning. I would have to plod through life stigmatized by the knowledge that I had been judged...
Sneider appears to rejoice in the fact that the social programs of the 1960s have not had the positive effects their creators intended. Instead of expressing regret about the tragedies of the welfare and housing programs, he seems delighted to ascribe their problems to the Democratic Party: "Democrats cannot or will not admit that their tried and tested methods of urban development...have failed...
This statement is offered without accompaniment by any data. Sneider seems to neglect the fact that the poverty level among Americans fell from the 1960s until the early 1980s The rise in poverty in the 1980s coincided with former President Ronald Reagan's dismantling of Great Society programs...
...they believe, Mikhail Gorbachev's political savoir-faire and the imminent collapse of communism will give them the money to further inflate the Great Society programs of the 1960s and 70s. They are convinced that anti-communist, anti-government conservatism has lost its appeal in the changing world...
...face the prospect of Jackson preaching to a crossover audience. In the meantime, with its teeny, tiny programs designed to assure voters that Democrats are as committed to life, liberty and the pursuit of an upwardly mobile life-style as Republicans, the D.L.C. is rewriting the lyrics of the 1960s song: "Ask not what you can do for your country but what educational vouchers, economic nationalism and savings incentives...