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So everyone (such as this lady as an example) is harping on about how Barack Obama is an elitist for his statements in Pennsylvania. Yet I’m still not 100% sure how attempting to sympathize with an assumed bitterness makes him elitist, nor do I understand how it makes him condescending.

I understand that elitist people are the type of people who think they’re better than other people, but I don’t understand how Barack Obama was openly claiming that he believed he was better than others, nor do I see how he was looking down upon people.

So he thought they may have been bitter. First of all, why would bitterness be considered an unwholesome trait? Why would being angry at being screwed or feeling taken advantage of be considered wrong? Being angry or bitter is a perfectly human, normal, and natural feeling and emotion.

I don’t think the statement in itself was condescending, but rather that people are choosing to take it that way. Suppressing your emotions and wearing a facade of happyglory isn’t the right way to go about life. We only solve problems through confronting them, not suppressing them. Bitterness is not an inferior feeling.

Arrogance would be a more appropriate word. Perhaps Obama was arrogant for stereotyping middle-class Americans as bitter. But elitist and condescending are out of the question.

Perhaps I’m missing something.

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