Where There's Will There's a Way

Anything I can say, he can say better. And George Will has once again taken his sharper-than-the-sword pen in hand and oh-so-gently eviscerated American liberals and liberalism. The article is at http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_562524.html

The occasion was Obama's latest foray into liberal elitism and its even-more-evil twin, disdain for regular, normal people who do honest work at real jobs. Which is to say, pretty much the majority -- but it never occurs to liberals that their "vision" of America excludes most Americans. It's axiomatic that liberals "love mankind but hate people". I would add that they love their ideas more than they love anything else. And -- another axiom -- if "theory forbids it", then it cannot be allowed to happen, or even be discussed, or even thought of. Conservatives may still be breathing some of the same air that the "robber barons" breathed when they called in the Pinkertons to break the heads of strikers. But liberals are breathing the air of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao in big, huge gulps right up to this very day, and Obama is no exception. What I continue to find amazing about liberals is not even that they remain so oblivious to the fact that all of their ideas -- every single one -- have been tried, more than once, and have not only failed miserably but have caused untold catastrophe and suffering. This is all true, but what's even more amazing is the degree to which liberals are out of touch with -- nay, living on a different planet from -- the ones of whom they claim to be the anointed representatives, i.e. "the people", "the working class", "the children", "the underprivileged", "the disenfranchised", and so on. Liberals of our time continue to ride forth leading an invisible army. It's invisible because it doesn't exist. What does exist is the clique of the liberal elite -- and that, of course, was Obama's audience when he made his remarks about the great bitterness and Bible-and-gun clinginess of the working class. Who told him that the way to campaign in Pennsylvania was to tell a bunch of twits in San Francisco that Pennsylvanians were all a bunch of backward peasants? Hillary owes that person a job in her campaign.

Even more amazing than this out-of-touchness is the fact that they are so out of touch with it. Whenever someone reacts to one of their clueless statements, liberals of the Obama or Bill Clinton persuasion act startled... hurt... deeply offended... and mostly very irritated that those ignorant rednecks objected to being called ignorant rednecks. So there! Stick that in your Prius. Of course, this latest self-inflicted wound on Obama's part does not, by any means, separate him from Hillary in the elitism sweepstakes. Wasn't it her husband who said, right out loud and in public, that he didn't trust American citizens to spend their own money correctly? The fact that he was not impeached on the spot for that statement shows you how far things have gone. We are used to being despised and looked down upon by our politicians... it's a fact of life. It would feel funny if they _weren't_ doing it. But every once in a while they go too far, and that's the window of opportunity for the rest of us.