As I discussed before. They’re at it again.
After generations of finding their voice in dissidence, some Americans on the left wing are adjusting not only to a new postelection comfort with patriotic symbols, but also to the political reality they represent. Believing in Obama after Inauguration Day will mean identifying with the machinery of U.S. power.
“There’s a left-wing tradition of being systematically opposed to the U.S. government, knee-jerk reactionary – most of our presidents have made it fairly easy to do,” said Jo Freeman, author of “At Berkeley in the Sixties,” a memoir of her student activism. “Those who view everything the U.S. does as automatically suspect already have a problem doing that with Obama.”
Being a leftist is all about having no concept of time, and instead, sporting a massive ego. Patriotism is uncool — because I say it is — WHOOPS NO WAITAIMMINIT OBAMA WON!!! — now patriotism is cool — because I say it is.
Maybe that’s it. Maybe they’re just missing that lobe of the brain that is concerned with time. When I recoil from fair-weather friends, I do so out of concern for the future; my remembrance of the past is simply an inspiration for my concerns about the future. Perhaps our hardcore left-wing “patriots” are missing both of those.
So they suffer no misgivings when they encounter fair-weather friends, and they have no compunction about becoming them. Am I speculating beyond the bounds of sensibility? My theory follows the dictates of Occam’s Razor…it is one single, simple thing, that explains a vast multitude of behavioral aberrations that, otherwise, would be inexplicable or require something far more complex to explain.
It’s like seeing a guy on the freeway drive six miles with his blinker on. The meaning is “I’m stupid as hell! I’m stupid as hell! I’m stupid as hell!” A post-November patriot says, to me, “I have no concept of time! I have no concept of time! I have no concept of time!”
This is tops on the list of what America doesn’t need. I’d ratchet it all the way to the Top Spot: The fair-weather friend. I’d yank it up above more enemies. Fair-weather friends, enemies, higher taxes, price controls, bailouts. Fair-weather friends is Number One.
They’ll be running the show now. Yipee.