Posted by
The Stonemeister on Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:00:00 AM
There are different kinds of people rooting for Obama. Speaking in the
broadest possible generalities, they fall into three groups: the
traditional Democrats, airheads, and Socialists.
Old
school Democrats are the heart of the party, of course, but losing
their stomach for the recent swing leftward. These people are good
Americans, who care more for fairness for the little guy than being
competitive. They are willing to sacrifice freedom for an assuredness
of outcome. They want to get their job and never have to worry about
looking for another. They appreciate Unions more than their employers,
because the Unions promise them stability and guarantees, while the
employers reward value and ambition. The main events of their lives:
birth, first job, marriage, kids, retirement, death. The important
stuff happens in between, but it’s all day-to-day, Budweiser state
fair, tv watching, NFL and NASCAR stuff. There’s nothing wrong with
this outlook. To some people, the job and the chase for an ever higher
salary is a low or non-existent priority. It’s another hue in the
American palette.
The primary target of the Democrat
party is the second type. These are the born followers. During the
‘60’s, these were the kids who became non-conformists to fit in with
the cool kids, wearing the anti-establishment uniform of tie-dye
shirts, ragged blue jeans, long hair, and of course, mind-expanding
altering drugs. These are generally intellectually lazy types: In
school, they could never master math, never grasped science, and
couldn’t handle all the dates in history class. They might have enjoyed
art class, poetry, acting, music – all the subjective courses that
required simple mimicry to squeak by, instead of mastery of processes
of reasoning. [Important note: in the arts, there is no “right” or
“wrong”. Everything is relative. Expanding on this nonsense, it is not
a stretch to see how the same lack of values has been applied to other
areas, such as moral relativism]
Success in this artsy
universe requires a smidgeon of talent and recitation of buzzwords,
phrases, slogans, and acceptance by the like-minded. This explains why
Hollywood leans so heavily to the left. Actors are basically people
with no personalities of their own who pretend to be people with
personalities. They likewise have no substantial intellect or skills –
hence their attraction to Hollywood, despite the ridiculous odds
against success there. These people, like fish swimming in schools,
will dart in the direction of the group, justifying thoughts by
“feelings” and “vibes”. If pressed for something that sounds rational,
they will establish an arbitrary “truth” (e.g., Bush lied us into the
Iraq war) and draw a pained logic from that point. These people use
arguments such as “well, everyone knows…”, “Karl Rove plotted…”, “the
NY Times wrote that…”. They don’t question the prevailing left-wing
wisdom – ever – they build upon on it.
Successful leftists
of the second order are besieged by guilt because, under all the
artificiality, they realize at some level that they are just plain
lucky. But like the primitives they really are, they are also hoarders.
They know there are people less fortunate than themselves who would
benefit from charity, but want everyone else to pay for it. This is how
they justify social program by the government. They seriously believe
it is government’s role to be everyone’s Santa Claus, everyman’s sugar
daddy. They take no personal responsibility for themselves or for their
fellow man. As Arthur Brooks writes in “WHO REALLY CARES: The
Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism”, Basic Books, 1996:
•
Households headed by a conservative gave 30 percent more money to
charity in 2000 than liberal families, despite earning less money, on
average.
• In 2002, conservative Americans were more likely to donate blood each year, and did so more often than liberals.
•
Conservatives are the most giving of their time and their money in
every single possible area and every single possible bracket.
•
Liberal young Americans in 2004 were also significantly less likely
than the young conservatives to express a willingness to sacrifice for
their loved ones: A lower percentage said they would prefer to suffer
than let a loved one suffer, that they are not happy unless the loved
one is happy, or that they would sacrifice their own wishes for those
they love.
The third wing of the Democrat party is the
most secretive, and most troublesome, and commanding the most control
of the party…the true socialists. They do not love America; they just
love the American Real Estate. The Socialists want to eradicate our way
of government and economics, and even our behaviors, and replace them
with a Socialist utopia. In many ways, they have already had some
success. Our government is mired in funding all kinds of social
programs, most or all of which could be done better in the private
sector (more on this in future columns). The socialists want true
income redistribution, state ownership of personal property through
confiscatory income taxes, and state control or outright appropriation
of commerce and industry. What’s in it for them, you may ask? In every
historic example of socialism, the elites got to enjoy the fruits of
the labor of the masses, while controlling or eliminating competing
ideas…at least until the system collapsed under its own weight of
corruption.
These Socialists knowingly tell half-truths
and outright lies to gain power. They use double-speak as a matter of
course. Just look at the jargon:
• Right to affordable health
care: sounds innocuous, but what is meant is single-source (government)
mandatory health insurance, or even a fully government-run health care
system.
• Pro-choice: abortion is the only choice they promote.
•
Tax the wealthy: really, confiscate even more money earned by taxpayers
and redistribute it to those who neither earn nor pay taxes.
• Conserving energy/Containing Global Warming: really, curtailing your freedom
• Working Americans: non-working Americans and illegal immigrants
• Community Organizer: voter fraud enabler
These
Socialists are really running the show, but are doing it in disguise.
Obama can talk to both sides of an issue and get away with it…the
socialists know when he’s lying, and the airheads have no working
memory, they really like Obama because he’s so dreamy! But the
traditional Democrats are losing patience. They are in the majority,
and have been biting their collective tongue when they hear the
doublespeak. These Democrats are not Anti-Americans, pro-abortion,
anti-religion, anti-capitalists. They’re just willing to put up with
some unwanted government programs so that they get their union jobs and
free retirement benefits from Social Security. But enough is enough.
Once
the smokescreen is blown away, and the Socialists are seen for who they
are, it should not be difficult for the traditional Democrats to switch
to the pro-American party. We’ve seen Geraldine Ferraro testing the
waters on the other side on the single issue of a woman as a VP. This
isn’t the only issue that’s pushing people over the edge. The entirety
of the Democrat campaign has been a touchy-feely campaign custom-made
to attract airheads. It’s much harder to answer policy questions with
sufficient truthfulness without irritating true Americans, whether they
are old Democrats or modern Republicans.