House of Eratosthenes

Separate post for this one, I decided, although what we’re talking about ties in so strongly with the one previous, in which our current House Speaker starts to fantasize about health care plan protesters walking around with swastikas on armbands…

Did you ever notice this thing about liberals? The liberal voter has very, very few things in common with the liberal politician. They don’t think the same way. The politician, who lives out his life in sort of a game of political chess, thinks in terms of cause-and-effect about every little thing — and then pretends he isn’t doing that. Example: Call it “gun safety” rather than “gun control” because the former phrase does so well in front of focus groups. The liberal voter on the other hand, is not inclined toward chess games. He just wants all risk eliminated from everything. What the voter considers to be an unacceptable threat that must be jettisoned from this plane of existence if the dream Utopia is ever to come to be, is simply an adrenaline rush for the politician. You can tell it once in awhile, in the lies they get caught telling. They tell lies that are obviously being told just for the thrill of the possibility of getting caught. “I was named after Edmund Hillary!” What would you hope to gain from saying such a thing?

So the liberal politician and the liberal guy-in-the-street are two completely different animals. But this one thing they have in common —

They don’t have a firm footing on this plane of reality. We saw it with the Nazi thing linked above, and we saw it with the Mike Malloy thing yesterday. The politician and the left-wing political junkie both do this. They’ll start to describe, in detail or at the abstract, things that are going on. They remind us of what we saw, with them…or they give us information that perhaps we’re hearing for the first time. And then —

It happens.

It’s that hairpin turn. That “I expect to see” thing. Malloy and Pelosi both did it. They slip, casually, easily, into this other realm of things that have not happened, and most of the time you can’t point to any evidence of likelihood of the thing happening, but the liberal starts droning on about it anyway as if it did happen. Over and over and over again, we see the only tincture of relevance this latest train of thought has to anything, is that it makes the liberal feel good to think about it happening.

What is that? A propaganda technique? Symptom of a mental illness? A sign that the person speaking spends way, way, way too much time watching modern sit-down comedians like Bill Maher or John Stewart? Some combination of all those, perhaps?

To a normal person, when you stop talking about things that have actually happened and start talking about things you want to see happening…there is a meaningful divide separating those two things because the concepts are entirely different. Not so with our liberals. But here’s the amazing part: They are political animals, skilled in winning arguments in which people are only halfway paying attention. Look what happened nine months ago. You can’t tell a passionate liberal who’s losing an argument, anything about what he needs to say in order to win, that he doesn’t already know. Well, the liberals are losing the health care plan argument right now. It should be intuitively obvious, even to the most obtuse, where they went wrong with this: It was with the revelation that Congress was about to vote this monstrosity into law without knowing a damn thing about it.

Health care is foundering because the middle-of-the-road voters have figured out liberals aren’t very dedicated to reality. The concern isn’t that liberals are going to erode our independence, or that liberals are going to ruin our health care; the concern is quite simply that liberals don’t know what they’re doing. They have a remote shot at maybe recovering this sense of confidence, but what they need to do is convince people that their fastening to reality is healthy. That’s the message they need to get out. And I’m pretty sure they know this.

They can’t do it. Even now when officials like Speaker Nan talk about what they have seen with us…they just can’t help it…there’s that hairpin turn. Swastikas this time. What’s it going to be next time, Republicans disemboweling adorable puppy dogs and roasting their entrails?

Crap, now she’s got me doing it. Well, if you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. Let’s all just make shit up. Hey, I hear the Palins are getting divorced…

Michael Moore’s next movie will be titled “The Cheney Presidency and the Bush Marionette”.

Congress really needs those new jets…

Nancy Pelosi stated today that she will introduce an ammendment into the Health Care Bill that will require all members of Congress to use the Public Option provided for in the Bill.

Hey, this is fun.
- Jim | 08/06/2009 @ 09:39
I love it, their imploding. They have the White House, the Senate and the Congress and they are imploding right in front of our swastika reflecting pupils. They can’t even handle running this country for six months.

Keep talking Pelosi, Reid and the rest of you loony tune cartoons, keep talking paleeeze. This is the best reality show eva! Can’t wait to see who gets voted off first, after eating their own feces of course.

Now, when is the Night of the Long Knives scheduled? Anyone? Little help?
- tim | 08/06/2009 @ 10:06
Now, when is the Night of the Long Knives scheduled? Anyone? Little help?

November 2, 2010. First Tuesday, right? 😉
- bpenni | 08/06/2009 @ 13:48
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