On the show Curb Your Enthusiasm, however, we do see such a depiction of stuffy, self-righteous elitists who make fun of those less fortunate than they are. Curb Your Enthusiasm, in case you haven’t watched the program, is a show that depicts the reality of the daily life of Larry David. Or, at the very least, say insiders of the show, it depicts the reality David wants to see in his life. Larry David is the husband of environmental activist Laurie David.
 

On a recent episode, environmental activist and liberal extraordinaire, Ted Danson holds a party. We assume that this party is Ted Danson’s birthday party. We assume, with the setting, that the posh home is Ted Danson’s. David, and his fictional wife, arrive to the party in a limousine. I don’t see anything wrong with this on the surface, but again we are talking about liberals here. Wouldn’t it have been more conscientious for them to arrive in a Prius?

At the Danson home, Larry David makes a magnanimous gesture by beckoning Danson to allow his limo driver to enter the posh home. David explains that some of this magnanimous gesture is borne from the fact that David used to be a limo driver.

"You used to be a limo driver?" Danson scoffs. "All right, let him in, but keep him in the kitchen."

Keep him in the kitchen? These are liberals. Danson, Larry David, and I assume that Jeff Garlin is a liberal also due to the fact that he is on the show. Also, in a previous season’s episode Garlin scoffed that one of the people at another party was a conservative. Perhaps, he was only reading a line written by David, but the show advertises itself as a largely unscripted show, and that most of the lines are improvised in a framework. How could liberals demand that a laborer be kept in the kitchen? Shouldn’t he be invited into the inner throes of the party? Shouldn’t that there is no difference his class and the class of the Davids and the Dansons? Instead, he is informed of his status in their world and kept in the kitchen.

Then, in the David’s framework, the idiot, peasant limo driver can’t help but become intoxicated when left to his own devices. He can’t help but grope Danson’s wife, and David gets thrown out of the Danson home for allowing the man in.

On the surface of it, there’s nothing wrong with what Danson did. The man did become intoxicated, broke some vase or something stumbling into the room, and he did grope Danson’s wife. But shouldn’t a good liberal attempt to understand the man’s actions? What if the limo driver were a member of a minority persuasion? Would that have changed Danson’s reaction to the man? What if the man were mentally diminished in some way? He wasn’t any of these things, but he was of a lower class. Shouldn’t the Danson’s have attempted to see that the pain of not being one of them could only be soothed by imbibing alcohol?

There was nothing wrong with what happened on this show. It was an exclusive birthday party to which David beckoned Danson to allow his personal limo driver into the party, but it goes against everything I’ve been told about the difference between liberals and conservatives from the liberal perspective. Those last two words are the key to it all: "The liberal perspective." Character, as the old saying says, is what you do when no one else is looking. Granted, this was on a national broadcast, but I don’t think that anyone involved in the show believed that anyone was looking at their show from another perspective. So, they acted in their usual stuffy, self-righteous and elitist manner, and the best manner in which one can diffuse guilt for acting in such a manner is to accuse the other of doing it first before anyone analyzes you.