Everyone's out of touch

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/opinion/03kris.html?incamp=article_popular_1

Read this while you can, because it may become part of the pay portion of the site after a week or so. It makes some important points about why all of those red states used to be blue states. It concludes saying that Democrats need to stop looking down their nose at religion if they want to get any of these votes.

Political parties in this country are drawn along very classist lines, despite how imaginary the distinctions might be. I have a hard time picturing how this country will turn around and start having sensible religious debate, but I think an election like this is at least getting people to talk about things. People are passionate and paying attention, maybe we can now get them to actually have rational discussions.Sites like Factcheck are going to still keep updating, so it's a start.

It may seem like trying to console myself after Bush won, but in a sense, winning or not winning the election is less important than getting people away from the tv and interested in what's going on in the country and the world.