Sirota Dispels the Common Stereotypes of the West
David Sirota hits it right on the head in his latest syndicated column. Go give it a read.
The fairy tales are endless. Congressional debates imply that the West's most precious resources are oil and gas. But to many locals, the area's most valuable commodity is water.
Commentators have claimed Bill Clinton's 1992 victory in four Western states is not only proof of his political genius, but also of the region's devotion to Clintonism--an ideology that sold out the middle class with initiatives like NAFTA. Somehow, everyone forgets that Ross Perot used a populist indictment of both parties' corporate sycophancy to take 1.4 million Western votes from George H. W. Bush.
But perhaps the biggest misconception is the belief that the West is a strange, Siberia-like realm--square-state "flyover" country separate from the rest of America.
As David says, the candidate who show the best understanding of the West, its culture and its issues, will be the one who does the best on February 5.
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