San Francisco Values<\/a>. You know, as opposed to heartland values. Of course, San Francisco values are my values, as the essential San Francisco value is that people are different, one to another, and that<\/I> is what makes the city so interesting and fun. Heck, in the City, Victorian houses are painted different, one to another, and that’s what makes a bus ride interesting and fun.\nMy own preference is for Democratic surrogates (and I’ll include here back-benchers in the House, but mostly newspaper columnists, broadcast personalities, A-list bloggers, as well as former office-holders and campaign consultant types) to quickly change this to city values<\/I>. I know, I know, we’re all supposed to be scared of being associated with cities. But we don’t have a choice. We’re the City Party, and we like suburbs and rural areas—heck, we love parks and wildnerness and farms and all—but the bulk of our support is in the Cities, and if the Republicans are sticking it to us, we have to redirect<\/I> it, rather than just try to block it and fail. So. No apologies. When the buffoon Chris Matthews asks you if the party can shake the “San Francisco Values” label, you say “Our big cities made this country wealthy; we’re not ashamed of San Francisco or St. Louis or Dallas or Richmond. The values of the city—productivity, commerce and invention, as well as the ability to live with each other, to come together to make skyscrapers and bridges and symphony halls—those our American values, and I’m proud that they’re Democratic values as well. Now the Republicans failed to protect our cities, true, but they also failed to protect the suburbs and towns, and that’s why they are so unpopular, and why they lost so badly.”\n
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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