Obama is not just the third Bush term; he is proving to be much worse, because he’s managed to marginalize any opposition from the left. By their unquestioning devotion to his candidacy and his never-ending political campaign, his followers (the ones not politically connected, that is) have rendered themselves completely irrelevant. (Earth to “progressive” bloggers: stay in your pajamas — you are not needed until the next election!)
It is sadly amusing to see how shocked many now are to realize (now that it is too late) that ObamaCare (AKA RomneyCare) is under attack from the left — as well as from the right. I guess now the media will be forced to acknowledge that all the opposition to this bill is not just from “whacked-out right-wing nut-jobs”. Oh wait…
When I’m finished laughing, I should mention that Big Media’s biggest job right now is convincing all us idiots that Obama’s Health Insurance “Reform” is the best-est EVER Progressive FDR New Deal legislation — you know: “for the people” — while this “historic” transfer of wealth from the middle class to your corporate masters is finalized behind closed doors in Chicago White House back-room deals.
While Real Democrats and Liberals might oppose Obama’s Health Care Scam for very different reasons than the Tea Partiers, they both sense the inherent uselessness (yes, it’s EVIL — HT Sarah Palin) of this “legislation”. Useless, that is, if you are anyone who is not the insurance industry or the politicians benefiting from their largess.
This all must be a terrible annoyance for those who know what’s best for us, and those interested only in “winning” — regardless of what piece of shit prize they are left holding. Because this issue really hits people where they live, the usual “us-against-them” tactics used to divide and distract the masses may not be working as efficiently as hoped. Outside Harry Reid’s “art of the compromise” beltway, the general consensus seems to have changed to: US (the citizens) against THEM (the ruling elite class).
It was obvious early on in 2008, to any who cared to notice, that a Democrat cynical enough to advance his candidacy by scaring people with resurrected right-wing “Harry & Louise” TV ads could not be all that committed to meaningful UHC.
Which makes it all the more ironic and frankly hilarious at this point (in a gallows humor kind of way) to realize that those who demonized Hillary for her well thought out health care plan – which included mandates, will soon discover that delivering all those uninsured losers to the insurance industry (enforced by the IRS) was the only Health Care “Plan” that Obama really cared about all along.
The Nobama coalition has had the “advantage” of scrutinizing — with Hopium-free vision — the stark contrast between Obama’s words and deeds over the past 2 years. We now have the dubious honor of witnessing — in agonizingly slow motion– the tragic “execution” of this “dead mandate walking” abomination as it plods along to its inevitable Bataan death march conclusion. Yes, it’s every bit as bad as we thought it would be — and then some.
Last year we watched in horror while our “reality-based community” worshiped their freshly branded AxelRovian creation; whipping themselves into a religious frenzy rivaling the Bushies of yore. We gasped as much of the loyal Democratic base was branded as bigots no longer needed in the DNC’s “new coalition” majority.
The mass hysteria to which Hillary was subjected by Big Media was reflected tenfold in the “Progressive” Blogosphere, where all who dared support her were relentlessly attacked– to an extent the general public is probably unaware. Because of the treachery inflicted upon their own Party by Obama and his minions — the likes of which Americans have not seen in their lifetimes — the 2008 Democratic Primary is an open wound that is not likely to heal any time soon.
Now, as The Faithful begin to wake up from their Kool-Aide stupor, those who never succumbed to Our New National Religion find all the hand-wringing and rending-of-garments quite laughable, to say the least. “I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. Who could have foreseen that he could be anything less than the second coming of St. Abraham Luther Kennedy?”
Most of these poor wretches will soon morph seamlessly into a smug political cynicism, as if the last two years never even happened. They’ll conveniently forget about their childish behavior when they fell for all those “fairy tales” about The Hero and The Evil Witch, (and Obama the Peace candidate), and will deny they would ever actually believe any promises made by typical politicians. They will comfort themselves with the belief that Hillary would have been just as bad if not worse.
Although many recovering Hopium addicts now can’t help but see through the con-men in congress (on both sides of the aisle) for the corporate shills they really are; most Obama enablers still give him a complete pass. They may be “disappointed”. They may even feel somewhat betrayed. But surely Obama is merely powerless before insurmountable forces, just as any well-meaning mere mortal man who fights for noble causes might be. Perhaps no God is he…but a devil? No way, bro!
If Americans continue to deny the part their own gullibility plays in this circus we for some reason still call the “democratic process”, the cycle will just repeat itself — with ever more disastrous consequences.
There are those who will never forgive voters for being “fooled again” by the likes of George W. Bush. Will those same people ever forgive themselves for the latest fairy tale foisted upon their country and its ever dwindling reality-based citizenry? I think you know the answer.
There are obviously some realities that are just too painful to bear.
