House of Eratosthenes

Has there ever before been a president who presents himself as a mediator and conciliator while simultaneously stirring up hatred and conflict? And been so successful at the deception? Has there ever before been a president who will not leave his fingerprints on anything? And gets away with it? Has there ever before been a president so inclined to blame his predecessors, and for so long, and with whom the American people has so cooperated with in that endeavor?

And I think Limbaugh is correct in saying that, although the sycophantic press is of course heavily, heavily involved, it is not the whole explanation or even close to it. The American people has lost the ability to see clearly and to demand performance from Obama. Obama is the first president to not be judged on his record.

From Rush’s rant:

Obama is constantly seen as in competition with what’s happening in Washington. It is though there are straw men. There are men behind curtains. There are invisible, evil people doing all this to the country. He’s trying to expose them and he’s working very hard. Romney is one of them. Bush was one of them. There are a bunch of other people, we don’t know who they are. But Obama is trying to find them. He’s trying to expose them and trying to fix all this. Obama is not seen as the guy behind the curtains pulling the levers. Obama is not seen as the guy who does not like the way the country was founded and is trying to take this country in a different direction. He’s not seen at all in the way he really is. It can’t all be because of the media.

I’m not quite seeing where the big epiphany is. Leftists posture themselves as the last, best, greatest hope the country has, to fix some problem they’ve been noticing — which they themselves caused. By way of exactly the same sort of policies they are proposing in the moment. On a Monday, the poor people just aren’t making it so we need to hike the minimum wage. By that Friday, there is inflation and higher unemployment, so we need to hike it again. Duh. Franklin D. Roosevelt governed this way. Ayn Rand wrote a big thick book about it. Example after example. Year N, we need price controls on energy, Year N+1 we have an energy crisis.

Yes, the “centrist” low-information voter is clueless about it. This, to me, is the origin of the whole problem: To say “Der, hey, whenever you do that stuff, the problem gets worse” is to be a right-wing conservative reactionary Republican who’s not in the “mainstream.” To point out the obvious makes you an extremist. Mainstream thinking has become nothing more than echoing leftist cant, getting emotionally caught up in the revolution-of-the-moment, biting your fingernails, hoping against hope that this latest scratch is going to cure the itch. All wrapped up in wondering about it, but without a doubt in the world. Showing your faith. Just like a good student at the pep rally, or a parishioner, or a sports fan.

Rush’s epiphany about Obama highlights the difference between liberals and conservatives. As we saw from the summer of 2008 dust-up between Obama and Hillary, Obama was chosen — either one of them would have been chosen — the same way all democrat contenders have been chosen for the last twenty years now: As the nation’s lefty champion at winning arguments, even while advancing a position that is clearly and obviously wrong. That is the job description. Because that is the message: “The time has come for sacrifice, and we all have to realize we can’t have everything we want, we need to put it aside for what’s truly important for the country. Which is that I get everything I want. Now sit down and shut your mouth.” If our friends, the libs, are good at nothing else, they’re certainly good at going through the motions of initiating a dialogue when they really just want a monologue.

And the American people right now are just eating it up. They have lost the ability, for the time being, to figure out what a candidate is all about when they make the decision to support, and align with, that candidate. Perhaps it is more accurate to say they can do this, but it’s more important to them to be aligned with the crowd that is aligned with that candidate. It really doesn’t matter which, though. What matters is that our whole system of a constitutional republic is based on this ability, and it’s taken a holiday. The constituency doesn’t want to buy what Obama is selling, but He’s just so gosh darn cute.

I think if the American people were eating it up, wouldn’t the Democrats be doing better on the state and local level? I think what’s going on is two things. One, the voters seem to like switching between the two parties on the Presidential level. The pattern seems to be R, D, R, D, or RR, DD. Don’t know why. Playing fair maybe? Second, I think Porkbusters really got a lot of people into the “Both sides do it” camp, which, of course, hurts Republicans more then Democrats (If both sides are corrupt, then why vote, or why not vote for the guy promising you your cut?). It’s soo easy to shark most voters by talking about raw numbers (Billions! Billions!), while covering up percentages. Remember, there are low information voters on the Republican side, and Porkbusters, with, yes, a lot of help from the Press, managed to convince the country we had a huge spending problem with the Republicans in charge, despite the fact that the Deficit was going down, down, down (until, surprise, 2006, when the Democrats got control of Congress, thanks to Porkbusters……..). People still talk of W’s deficit problem. Surreal! I wonder if Porkbusters was one of the more successful False Flag operations run by the Democrats. And given the crossover between Porkbusters and the Tea party, I understand the reluctance of the Republican party leadership to embrace them (and their cherished claim of being “bipartisan” doesn’t help. Pick a side, guys!

Perhaps what is going on is that our low information voters have been overwhelmed by the raw numbers on the national level, and have given up on Washington. But the numbers coming out of their state are so much smaller that the Democrats can’t pull a “Porkbusters” on a local level. When you have people frozen with fear over “Trillion Dollar Deficits!!!!!”, then millions or billions are easy to deal with.
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 02/16/2013 @ 09:15
Robert, I couldn’t agree more.

Year N, we need price controls on energy, Year N+1 we have an energy crisis. What’s really amusing is that after this gambit got too embarrassing, they switched to “Energy is killing the planet, anyway, so it’s good if we have a shortage!” — even though that’s followed immediately by howls that energy bills are too high for the little guy.

So it was with even greater amusement that I saw the governments of Germany and Spain this week slash surcharges on green energy, in response to protests from consumers who wanted cheaper energy. Now the green energy producers are howling: “You took away our captive customers! Somebody’s got to pay for this stuff!” It’s almost as if you couldn’t repeal the laws of the market without unforeseen consequences.

I’m living in the middle of a shale boom down here. I can’t make enough popcorn to watch the administration tie itself in knots trying to figure out how to kill it.
- Texan99 | 02/16/2013 @ 14:01

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