The Democrats’ Recurring Nightmare
By
robert108
on April 13, 2008 at 10:41 am
Thomas Lifson
The truth is, lefties are elitists, just like all commies. In socialist/communist countries, the elite class is composed of politicians. The Dems want the same for America.
Hillary Clinton is getting a big boost from Obama’s bitterness fumble. Her case that he is unelectable got a lot easier to make, and she doesn’t even have to mention race. Not that Hillary ever gave anyone (except maybe Chelsea) the warm and fuzzies, but she has decades’ more practice at hiding her disdain for ordinary folk. After all, moving from Wellesley to Yale to the Watergate hearings, and then going to Arkansas as a politicians’ wife must have been quite a baptism of fire when it comes to camouflaging condescension.
The Party of the Little Guy appears to be caught in what Marxists like to call a contradiction. Their rhetoric is all about compassion and helping, and taking care of the unfortunate. But their political philosophy is anchored in elitism: the notion that the government (and the elites running it) know better than Everyman what is good for him. The entire “What’s the Matter with Kansas” hypothesis rests on the assumption that people are too dumb to understand the complexities of politics, just mindlessly reacting on the basis of false consciousness to the Rovian deceptions of the alternatively idiotic/brilliant GOP.
The first two presidential elections of the new century saw pompous Democrat badidates narrowly losing to George W. Bush, who is regarded on the left as having no conceivable person to whom he might condescend. A regular baseball-loving, pretzel-eating kind of guy so unlike Al Gore and especially the haughty, serial wealth-marrying John Kerry.
Now here it is 2008, and the Dems have given their hearts over to a black guy raised without a father. That must have seemed like a great idea at the time they were caucusing in places like Wyoming. Except that now it turns out that Obama is as much of a snob as Kerry, albeit with a wife who thinks she is poor when they earn a million bucks a year, and feels aggrieved at the cruel way America has treated her.
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The truth is, lefties are elitists, just like all commies. In socialist/communist countries, the elite class is composed of politicians. The Dems want the same for America.
