<http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> Daniel Greenfield article: Liberal Sore
Losers
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Posted: 02 Nov 2010 07:37 PM PDT
In January of 2009, huge numbers of eager liberals made the trip down to
Washington D.C. to celebrate the inauguration of Hope and Change. The mood
of the day was optimism. The big change had finally come. Nearly two years
later, they returned to Washington D.C. on buses for Jon Stewart's
clownfest, but the mood had changed. Contempt had replaced optimism. The
left wing of the Democratic party had reverted to its Bush era sneers and
jibes.
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The mocking costumes and signs had been staples of Anti-War rallies and
Anti-Bush rallies from 2001 to 2008. But this was not a rally against a war
or any specific policy, it was something far more unique. It was a rally
held by the dominant political ideology with no other purpose than to mock
the opposition party that they were about to lose to. Broken down to its
core elements, it was nothing more than a stunningly expensive and widely
hyped sore-loser fest. And it will probably go down in history as the
highest profile temper tantrum ever thrown in Washington D.C.
If the American people needed any more convincing that there were no adults
in charge on the left, spending unknown amounts of money to gather people at
the Washington Mall in order to sneer at the opposition-- during an economic
depression, should have done it. (The bill for the Huffington Post buses
alone ran to a quarter of a million dollars.) The entire media backed
production was a stunning testament to the pettiness, the meanness and
frivolousness of the left. To its deficit of ideas and its surplus of spite.
Dealing with public rejection and looking political defeat in the face,
liberals reached into their handbag of ideas and came up with a middle
finger and a clown mask. The "Too cool for school" attitude of the
emotionally stunted who can't deal with rejection, let alone learn anything
from it. Rather than understanding why they're losing, their immediate
response is to prematurely ridicule the people who will vote against them as
stupid and irrational. And that is not just the attitude of the two middle
aged nerds who took their best shot at a celebrity studded High School
talent show in the nation's capital, but of the rest of the liberal media
which pathetically looks to them for guidance.
Victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan. In this case it's an
orphan tossed in the dumpster of the post-election narrative. And the spin
is already coming. The narrative is that liberalism didn't fail the American
people. The American people failed liberalism. The voters made their choices
for emotional reasons. Too many people were worried or afraid. Obama is
guilty of speaking "too far above" the level of Katie Couric's Great
Unwashed populations. That Republicans didn't do as well as they should
have. That Right wing TV and radio hosts fed on fear and paranoia. The
people didn't have enough patience for the Summer of Recovery to turn into
the bitterly cold Winter of Recovery. And then maybe wait around for the
Spring of Employment and then the Autumn of Profit.
But the best metric of media hypocrisy, is that the same talking heads who
will take the elevator up to the 12th floor studio where they will
mournfully explain why the Democrats lost, used these same explanations when
Obama won. Except then they endorsed kicking out a party that fails to
immediately address economic problems and calm voter doubts. They were quite
gleeful over voters making an emotional decision to support Obama. And they
were more than happy to inject heavy doses of fear, paranoia, photoshopped
pictures, smear campaigns and lies into the big picture. And to give high
profile coverage to anti-government protesters. But when the Democrats get
the boot, for the same reasons that the Republicans did, then suddenly the
same Rust Belt voters who were on the mark when picking Obama, are
irrational and crazy for going another way.
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While the talking heads will dig through their thesauruses looking for
polite synonyms for Temper-Tantrum, the truth is that they are the ones
throwing the temper tantrum. They may do it with comedy skits and wacky
costumes, accompanied by the likes of Cat Stevens, but a more cynical and
sophisticated tantrum, it still a tantrum. And what it really displays is an
inability to come to terms with the cause of their own failures. Calling the
voters names, no matter how cleverly, betrays a fundamental lack of
maturity. A giant hole where skills such as communicating with other people
should be.
And those are rather crucial skills to have when trying to take power in a
democracy. Because they allow you to actually know what other people are
thinking.
The left has excelled at telling people what to think. They are great at
assembling a set of talking points, distributing them through the media, and
then grinning proudly when they can get stupid people to repeat them back to
them in opinion surveys. But it's not that hard to do when you already
control most forms of communication. And that kind of power breeds
complacency and arrogance. A state of mind that cannot envision of tolerate
defeat.
Like generals who assemble a battle plan and assume that it will carry them
to victory through superior force alone, they tend to lose exactly when
they're supposed to win. Because their plans don't allow for setbacks.
Adjusting to setbacks, requires a flexible command structure that can adjust
to changing conditions. And the more radical the ideology, the less its
followers are capable of adjusting their battle plan. Instead they ride into
the cannons and the valley of death of ObamaCare, without asking why. Until
it's too late.
Liberals love to go on listening tours. Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric
both did them. But to them, listening only means listening to themselves.
People who are certain that they are both right and culturally superior are
incapable of hearing and understanding dissenting messages. Instead they
filter out the negative. Marginalize it and ridicule it. Until suddenly the
entire situation is trending negative and they have no idea how it got that
way. Like companies who go bankrupt because they refuse to listen to
legitimate complaints by the people on the ground floor, liberals keep
losing because they just don't listen.
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And that isn't about to change. Washington D.C. will not stop being an echo
chamber in a bubble now. It will just become more of one. Feeling isolated,
the Democrats will keep on trying to fortify their base, reaching out to
unions and left wing groups. Having never stopped blaming the Republicans in
the two years that they controlled two out of the three branches of
government, it'll just be more of the same. In the first two years, Obama
masqueraded his deficit spending as economic stimulus plans. In the next two
years, he'll try to pass them off as deficit reduction programs. (If you
think this is farfetched, ObamaCare was promoted as a way to save money.)
The game won't really change, because the top players don't think they did
anything wrong.
To learn from your mistakes, you must first admit to making them. If you
can't do that, then you throw tantrums. You dress up in clown suits and
stick out your tongue. And if you can't listen the people, only talk at
them, then your only resort is brute force. Trying to brainwash them,
intimidate them, buy them off, organize them and otherwise dehumanize them
becomes your only option.
And that is what makes the American liberal so frightening. It is not only
his ends that are bad, but also his means. His ideology is populist, yet his
methods are elitist. He campaigns for socialism, while demonstrating
anti-social tendencies. He wants us to feel, yet the only emotions he can
feel are his own. Democracy dooms him to be a perennial sore loser. Only by
destroying a system in which people can choose their own leaders, rather
than being driven to vote like cattle by class, organization and race, can
they ever truly win.
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