Predictable Leftist Elitism

Here in Pullman, Washington, we have just gone through a very lengthly process of convincing the city government to allow us to have a Wal Mart superstore in our little burg. Actually, the city council was mostly for it, but a noisy little hair clog of unreformed sixties lefties out for one more call to arms did all they could to stop it. They raised all the usual concerns, Wal Mart doesn't pay enough, it's big non-union meanie, it'll mess up traffic patterns, Wal Mart will do harm to local businesses, then when local businesses disagreed they said that it might harm Shopko (?).

Well, they lost. But reading through the hearing examiner's decision one finds the real reason that PARD didn't want Wal Mart. Look in page 8 and find that concerns were raised about "the intrusion of undesirable social classes."

They don't like Wal Mart's customers or employees. They just are not the right kind of people.