Just when you thought it was over, Obama has brought back a beloved meme from the 2008 election. Bitter clinging is back for a repeat performance!
Yes, all of the concerns expressed at the Glenn Beck rally (which I did not follow) boil down to the same thing for Obama: when times are hard, the bitter cling harder. It is never about policy, or the constitution, or anything substantive for the left. It is always about economics. It is always about money.
And this is how we really know that Obama views the world through a Marxist lens, because for the Marxist materialist, the pocketbook is the only book that matters. Everything else, including religion, culture, constitutional ideals, etc., are only instruments to keep the otherwise needing to be enlightened proletarians duped and deceived. The common man and woman in this scenario simply needs to have an already enlightened vanguard to step to the plate and solve all their problems for them and thus usher in an age of economic and social bliss! So why don’t these damn kulaks, I mean bitter clingers get with the program?
It is a sad reality, but this is the essential limitation of the left. They cannot imagine that people may have legitimate concerns that surpass their supposed economic self interest. Leaving aside for a moment the question of whether leftist economic policy works (it doesn’t), fundamentally they believe that everything can be reduced to a cost / benefit analysis. It is all pragmatism and social science in which there is no room for transcendent ideas like liberty, family, morality, religion. In fact, these things are usually impediments to the implementation of leftist ideas, which is why people like Tom Friedman of the New York Times wishes we were more like China where what is good for us can be simply shoved down our throats.
Beck’s rally was the antithesis of this obsession on the part of the left. They cannot conceive that anything can be other than political, and in fact for leftists, everything IS political. They just can’t believe that some people would rather have freedom and economic insecurity than bondage and be provided for from cradle to grave. They don’t understand that for pro-life people, it really doesn’t matter if down the road some cure could possibly come from the destruction of human embryos in the present: it is still wrong, and they just don’t understand that having the right to spend as much of one’s own hard earned money as possible keeping grandpa alive just one more week is more important than getting “free” health care.
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Subjective post. We certainly see the world differently.
Excellent post, “subjective” or not. Too bad that “K” neglected to expound upon his world views (or perhaps fortuitous).
Moral relativism, which is the base for the application of the “pragmatism and social science” that has greatly contributed to the decay of American society, is indeed a staple of Marxist theology. Such an outlook is designed to weaken the societal pillars of liberty, family, morality and religion, thus leaving an opportunity for a ruling class to gain and maintain power.
Very interesting that in the brief excerpts from Obama’s harangue we see the verbal hiccup “you know” repeated at length – this from an acclaimed “master orator”. The mask continues to dissolve.
great post elderj! lots of things are more important than the wallet. thanks.
Great post TBC. I would even expound a bit further and propose that they are not really even interested in cost/benefit based decision. I would propose that they are far more interested in cost/power based decisions. They are ONLY interested in the cost of something if it does not directly increase the power of government.