Is This a Joke?

A month ago HERE I wrote:

Washington, Jefferson...my point is that the things we fight about today were not brought about by the least common denominator amongst us shouting the loudest. And the next time you hear somebody try to play the "our founding fathers were but simple, common sense farmers" onto some sort of aw, shucks! contest with a political candidate today whose sole criterion for running the country seems to be that he's okay to have a beer with and can drive a pickup truck, remember this:

    Jefferson was typical, like all of them - and, it was assumed, their readers - well versed in the writings of the political philosophers Harrington, Hume, Locke, Halifax, Montisquieue, Sidney, and Bolingbroke, as well as moral philosophers such as Grotius, Francis Hutcheson, Pufendorf, and Vattel. Moreover, all could recite Thucydides, Tacitus and the Earl of Clarendon. All were familar with the system of checks and balances, of laws and traditions that made up English law. Every literate freeholder was expected to understand what made up the constitutional rights of Englishmen, and what were the natural laws. and what were their natural rights, their belief that, from a state of nature, man had entered into a society by a contract and therefore possessed rights that neither he himself nor his posterity could lose or dispose of;

Does that sound like the people you're supporting? Yes, no? Maybe? These weren't fucking idiots that would have a beer with you, these were men who studied The Enlightenment. They wouldn't cross the street to piss on you. THAT'S the country you love today, of which you know nothing about.

And now some guy has written a song that spins itself off that most American of virtues these days, put-upon victimhood by book-learning elites, is based on what should've been only a cringe-inducing line from some celebrity nobody should care about and then takes about four minutes proving her right. Incredible. As this dude over at Sully writes:

I'd prefer if Americans cut out this nonsense where showing oneself to have been insulted is a propaganda tactic. Implicitly signaling to celebrities that their most inane political analysis matters is a foolhardy move.

Especially unfortunate is invoking a celebrity who says the Tea Party Movement doesn't know history, and proceeding to sing those lyrics. The colonists were rebelling against a European monarch more than "a bunch of politicians." The Founding Fathers, cast as country boys in the song, were actually drawn largely from a colonial elite whose members didn't push their own plows. As delegates to the Continental Congress they were also politicians to a man. And the government they established emphatically interposed elected or appointed elites between the levers of power and regular people.