HuffPo Blogger: Why Can’t Everyone Think Like Us?
As soon as I get on board with supporting our new president as any American should, I read something from the morons at the Huffington Post and that warm sense of patriotic bipartisanship washes away.
My biggest beef with an Obama presidency is not so much with Obama himself, but the far-left pinkos he empowers — people like HuffPo blogger Evan Handler.
Here’s Evan’s take on the election:
It’s good! It’s great! It’s all fantastic, and I’m thrilled! Really. I do mean it. But something seems to be escaping our attention amidst the exaltation. In spite of the wars, the lies, the torture, the stacking of the courts, and the rollbacks to civil liberties; in spite of the religious fundamentalism, the fanaticism, and the utter disdain toward the population that’s been expressed; in spite of the Katrina fiasco, the wire tapping, and the raping and pillaging of our economy for corporate gain (not to mention the ridiculousness and horrendous idiocy of the Republican campaign, including the Palin monstrosity) 56 million, 378 thousand, 316 Americans still voted for the other side.
To humanize that just a bit, that means that 56,378,316 individuals waited in line just as long as you did, and worked just as hard as anyone else, to try to make sure that Barack Obama would not become president of the United States. I don’t know about you, but that scares the shit out of me.
That is precisely the way the radical left looks at the world. They want a uniformity of thought which is why they try to silence any opposing viewpoints. They can’t understand why everyone doesn’t share their radical left-wing view of the world.
Evan goes on to write:
…if you’ve got some money stashed away in these economically stormy days, if you’ve got some major purchases anywhere on your horizon, time them out for the first ninety days of the new administration. Need a washer/dryer or an automobile? Thinking of buying a new home? Want to get back into the stock market? Hold off ’till after January 20th, and let the numbers show sudden economic improvement during the first three months of a new Democratic majority. Because I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that those 56,378,316 misguided souls aren’t the most sophisticated sailors on the sea.
I’m not suggesting we’d be successfully addressing any of the serious issues that need to be sorted out. But I am thinking that, if they’re crass enough, and easily hoodwinked enough, to have voted Republican after the last eight years, we might as well do a little psychological manipulation of our own. We might not be able to win their hearts and minds, or erase whatever bigotry led them to vote as they did. But we should be able to outwit them. Let ‘em read a few positive economic headlines just as they’re fearing the wrath of God is about to drop down upon us. Let ‘em think that, even if the “Godless,” “unreal” Americans have prevailed, it might be good for their pocketbooks. And then, maybe then, they might climb aboard the Peace Train.
I wish Evan’s incredibly cynical and misguided views were some kind of anomaly, but they’re not. The idea that anyone who voted against Obama is either stupid, racist, or both is shared by a large segment of the left.
The “liberal” party that is supposed to be all about tolerance and acceptance is actually the least tolerant among us. If you don’t vote like them and think like them, they don’t wanna have anything to do with you.
Which is why I think many well intentioned Americans who voted for Obama are gonna live to regret that decision. The luntatics have been let out of the asylum.
-Chris Jones
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and you don’t think the far right wing doesn’t think exactly the same thought? people on either extreme are just as ridiculous as one another.
Chris…
Wow. Where to begin. First of all, I’ll tell you straight from the source: I’m not of the “far left,” and I’m certainly not a “pinko” (which, from my memory of my childhood, used to stand in for “communist,” no?). And I’m not a “radical.” Using those terms to describe me is simply absurd. Okay. Can we consider that settled?
More importantly, the point of my post (a good portion of which you haven’t included here), isn’t to root for or insist upon uniformity of thought. It’s to wonder how such a large part of the population could accept and continue to support the level of incompetence, fear mongering, divisiveness, and insults to the intelligence and pocketbooks of Americans we’ve had for the past eight years. In fact, some of those thoughts are included in your excerpts. Which parts do you take issue with? Are you arguing that the preparations for and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were handled well? Is that the part that makes me a left-wing lunatic? The fact that I disagree with the government’s newly proclaimed right to spy on its own citizens? The deregulation, to the point of destruction, of our banking system? These aren’t far-left views, Chris. I think if we were to line ourselves up and use a compass, what we’d find is one slightly left of center guy standing next a good distance from someone far to the right. I mean, generally speaking, absolute deregulation and power concentrated in the executive branch are far right positions. So, yes…I’m way to the left of you. But not far left of center.
In any case, putting the two of us aside, my point was, and is, that things weren’t really going very well for a lot of us of late - domestically or internationally - and it was surprising to me that so many wanted to, essentially, continue on a similar course. Or do you think things really have been going well?
Anyway, just thought I’d post a protest to the way you’ve represented me. Anyone who actually knows me and my position on this Earth would laugh to have me represented as anything radical. All the best to you and yours. I hope things improve in your world over the next few years, simply because I’d like things to improve for everyone. But, if they do, I hope you might take an honest look and see whether any of the coming policy changes - which I expect will be anything but “far-left” - contributed to the improvements.
Evan Handler
Evan,
If you say you’re not on the far-left then I’ll take you at your word. As for your response, I agree that many mistakes have been made in the last eight years. However, millions of people don’t see all the “problems” you see.
Blaming what you call “deregulation” on the Bush administration makes for good campaign rhetoric, but it isn’t true. It’s a fact I encourage you to look-up that Republicans tried to put more regulations not less on Fannie and Freddie, but were blocked by Democrats.
You say that you can’t understand how people could “continue to accept” the level of incompetence we’re now allegedly experiencing, but 56,000,000+ people weren’t voting for Bush — they were voting for McCain.
I give the Obama campaign credit for creating the “Bush’s 3rd term” narrative early, and sticking with it. However, we all know that isn’t really true. The campaign is over — It’s okay to admit that. Nobody was a bigger thorn in Bush’s side than John McCain. So voting for John McCain was in no way voting for more of the same.
So I find it incredibly insulting for you to attribute 56,000,000+ votes for McCain as being the result of stupidity or bigotry.
I simply attribute it to a difference of opinion on exactly what kind of change we need.
Finally, I am hoping and praying for a successful Obama presidency. I didn’t vote for him, but he won fair and square — and I will support him as our new president.
-Chris Jones