The Sideshow

We do large and small things, well-intentioned or merely petty indulgences, that help to create evil. Among them is the way middle-class people talk about "rednecks" - people we perceive as stupid, illiterate, slobs whose idea of a cultural event is to go out shooting things, swill beer, eat burgers, smoke cigarettes, and read Hustler. It infests our language in a thousands ways - a thousand ways that we make perfectly ordinary heterosexual attractions sound like perversion, natural impulses to make yourself feel good seem like some kind of attack on society or even the whole planet.

everyday evil, and how rush limbaugh got so popular. go read.