If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. – Sun Tzu
It takes a while to digest monumental events, like the election of Scott Brown as the new Republican senator from Massachusetts last night. Initial responses are interesting because of the way they illuminate character. The Obama Administration has finally produced a shovel-ready job, as liberal spin doctors will spend the next few weeks burying the embarrassing performance of Democrats and their media allies from last night through this morning.
Last night, the media announced their discovery of an amazing new source of renewable energy: the Wave Of Anger, strong enough to carry a pickup truck, and the affable fellow trapped inside, from Wakefield, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. It wasn’t easy to write that narrative over the roars of laughter and music from Brown’s supporters, but the media remained stubbornly focused on the task. They’ll drop that action line over the next few days. When you keep telling people they’re irrational and angry, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, they respond by ignoring you. The dying liberal media includes too many terminally ill newspapers and cable-news shows to afford provoking ignorance from the vast and growing movement that celebrated its latest and greatest victory on Tuesday night.
Top Democrats have opened a window into the soul of a deeply sick party with their expressions of contempt for the voters. As related by Jammie Wearing Fool, Democrat congressman Anthony Weiner explained the stunning repudiation of the Obama agenda by saying “Most Americans don’t realize what we’re trying to do.” The meme about “bitter voters” is born from this same arrogance. Calling the people who voted for Scott Brown “bitter” is saying they’re not intellectually equipped to understand the magnificence of the Democrat agenda, so they resent the “sacrifices” they’re asked to make in the service of a celestial design they can’t appreciate. The truth is that Americans understand what the Democrats have been doing, all too well. They are recoiling from an agenda presented with the urgency, secrecy, and speed of a con job. No one with any common sense hangs around a shady used-car lot after the hard-charging salesman calls them an idiot for refusing to accept a deal whose details he refuses to discuss, for a clunker he won’t let them test-drive.
The reflexive tendency to portray themselves as helpless victims of the mighty George Bush perpetuates an image of weakness and confusion that independent voters find repellent. For example, Harry Reid greeted his new Senate colleague by croaking, “There is much work to do to address the problems Democrats inherited last year, and we plan to move full speed ahead.” This is suicidal for the Democrats. There’s nothing appealing about a party that plans to move full speed ahead without accepting responsibility for what it’s already done.
Ratcheting up class warfare and anti-business rhetoric won’t get the Democrats anywhere, either. David Plouffe, former manager of the Obama campaign, attempted to paint the GOP victory as the overture to their eventual defeat: “The Republicans have chosen their path: they are doing the bidding of insurance companies, just as they’re going to do with big banks as it relates to financial reform. We have a good health care plan and we need to pass that.” Those suffering through the Obama economy would prefer jobs from those insurance companies and big banks, instead of hoping for another extension of their unemployment benefits. It’s not as if they can migrate to the imaginary zip codes where all the “stimulus jobs” are being saved or created.
Scott Brown’s election begins a new chapter in a saga that is far from over. A hundred battles lie ahead, before voters have a chance to replace the ruinous President who made it possible for a Republican to succeed Ted Kennedy in a landslide victory. The GOP is far better positioned to win those battles than the Democrats, because they understand their enemy. The Democrats, on the other hand, are only just beginning to understand who their enemy is. They could gain that understanding by listening carefully to what popped out of their mouths in the first shocking moments after Scott Brown’s incredible victory. They can only succeed by defeating what they described as hateful, stupid, misogynist, and greedy last night. Their enemy is the American people.
Cross-posted at Hot Air.
Even those convinced of their own rightness would give pause to so much opposition if their intentions were pure. They might attempt to see the perspective of the opposition versus their own and try to reconcile the two. However, the complete rejection of the opposition by suggesting they are ignorant or addled only reinforces the simple fact that the Democrats true intentions are the suppression of your rights.
“Their enemy is the American people.”
It always has been. It’s a big part of why they have to identify a new enemy every few weeks, usually a corporation or “special interest”.
I continue to ponder the stark reality that candidate Obama’s statist/socialist agenda was ridiculously transparent to anyone who took the time to look into his background, but too many Americans simply *wanted* to believe in the Obama brand/myth. They stood there with their fingers in their ears chanting la-la-la-la-I-can’t-hear-you when anyone tried to talk about the real Barack Obama. Personality cults of any sort really creep me out and I hope I never see another one like that in my lifetime. They do not cultivate thoughtful decisions.
So what did it take to vote for Obama in 2008 but subsequently “pivot” enough to vote for Brown yesterday, as we know many MA voters did? Watching the statists do exactly what they said that they would do? Brilliant. Please do not forget that one, so-called independents, so beloved by the media. Don’t put us through this again.
The margin of victory for Brown in 2010 is the same as it was for Obama in 2008: 52%.
Based on demographics, not mathematics, I would characterize the former as a “landslide”, the latter only a majority.
Dear Doc, there you go again. My sentiments exactly. Your #1 fan. Patti
So Doc, I read this post with left wing blog reactions to this election. They looked awful familiar. As in, I’ve seen stuff like that on our side too. It was kinda startling how similar they looked.
It makes me wonder about how we all think we’ve got some super high fidelity window into the character of “the other guy.” Do we really?
How many Rs have you seen that showed utter contempt for the average guy? It’s some sort of recurring condition in the political class. I guess my point is that I don’t know if events like this are illustrative of our differences so much as our similarities.
When I called my Democrat Congressman’s office to voice my concerns about ObamaCare, his aide couldn’t wait to let me know that I am “not intellectually equipped to understand the magnificence of the Democrat agenda.” In his view, my personal experiences with government care (VA) are worthless, my understanding of the sections of the legislation that I read is amateurish, and my reading of the published works of Obama’s health care advisors is pointless.
I got the message: the last thing on the planet that my congressman wants is my support.
He’s getting his wish.
@ TheUnrepentantGeek:
The Republicans have certainly made that mistake many times before. The current positions of the two parties seemed clear last night, and Scott Brown exemplifies a (hopefully growing) Republican contingent that understands exactly what it’s up against, and how to fight it.
I think any collectivist movement will inevitably find itself at war with the people it aspires to govern. The American version circa 2010 is no different in this respect. Any grand design to engineer a society, or command an economy, runs into a growing resistance that must eventually be subdued. Americans don’t subdue easily.
Coakley got thrashed last night because of her individual weaknesses, and Brown’s strength, to be sure… but also because the Democrats have never understood why they keep losing battles to the Republican minority. It’s because the Republican minority was not the true enemy.
“The Democrats, on the other hand, are only just beginning to understand who their enemy is… Their enemy is the American people.” whom “they described as hateful, stupid, misogynist, and greedy” “the Democrats have never understood why they keep losing battles to the Republican minority. It’s because the Republican minority was not the true enemy.”
It’s not moderate Democrats in the Democrat Party whose enemy is the American people but leftist/”progressives” who have taken over the party’s leadership.
Millions of Americans, like my Father, Mother and Daughter would never knowingly support leftist causes, yet they voted for Obama, and in my case, despite my best efforts at persuasion (obviously inadequate).
All three were convinced by the 8 yr major media con-job that Bush was a cowboy, in over his head and that the “hope and change” Obama promised was inclusive, reasonable and middle-of-the-road. They, along with millions, believed him because they couldn’t accept that someone could appear so sincere and yet be willing to be exposed as a liar once he assumed the Presidency. That level of narcissistic dysfunction they couldn’t believe either the democrat’s would support nor the MSM fail to expose.
The media has been instrumental in covering up the truth about the Democrats for many decades, while the radicalism of the party has steadily grown. The MSM also and long ago succeeded in painting the Republicans and conservatism in general as the party of racism, evil capitalistic greed and socially repressive policies. So much so that it has become an unchallenged meme or ‘assumed truth’, among large swaths of the public.
Look at what the media obscenely did to Sarah Palin, for moderate democrats to accept the truth about the media’s now blatant bias and literally contemptuous disregard for objective reportage, they have to look with open eyes at the MSM and accept a “conspiracy of deception” that requires a fundamental change in paradigm because it literally ‘boggles the mind’.
That’s a lot to ask of anyone but gradually and incrementally, independents like my father and moderate democrats like my mother are slowly beginning to think the unthinkable. That they are regarded by the leaders they’ve helped elect, as the ‘enemy’ in their own country. And that, they’ve been the gullible victims of the greatest con-job in history, by agenda-driven ‘journalists’ who’ve completely betrayed the ethics to which their trade owes its very reason for being.
Brown’s victory in Massachusetts is the tip of the iceberg. The next step will hopefully be the Tea Party convention in February. By November, it is unavoidable and inevitable that a Tsunami of political change shall sweep the democrats from power and result in a complete check upon Obama’s radicalism.
No party whose leadership views the public’s values whose votes elect them to be the enemy can retain leadership, the more radical the agenda, the more it opposes fundamental American values and the quicker that power shall be lost. Polls show that by the summer, Obama had started to lose the independents, by the time the bribes in the Senate for Louisiana, Nebraska and Nevada emerged and then Union ‘exceptions’ were exposed, the dismay among independents turned into rage and disgust. That animosity will only grow in the coming months and no party can retain power in that situation.
And glad you are on this side, Doc, to help lead the troops.
The utter irony of this situation is that it appears that the Senate Healthcare bill, unamended, will be voted upon in the House. After all, the Senate has already passed a bill, and any reconciliation between the two versions of the legislation is now lost. The bribes to Nebraska, etc., added to the Senate bill will now never have the chance of finding the cutting-room floor.
Very nice, as always, Doc.
@ DOne:
Actually, I think the “House cramdown” strategy is now officially dead, although we should probably fill its mouth with salt and sew its lips closed, just to make sure it doesn’t climb back out of the grave.
“Their enemy is the American people”. So true.
@ Doctor Zero:
And here I am watching “The Nightmare Before Christmas” through NetFlix. What timing on your metaphors!
Doc, you’ve made my personal political beliefs even stronger. And I tend to keep it simple.
If the word “winger” is associated with your political philosophy, I’m probably not your man.
For the Obama’s progressives, it’s only “projection” to think that the American people is their enemy. Because, as narcissists, they can’t face their basic delusion: “I’ve found my enemy, and it’s I”.
Being soulless, they’re in rage, envious and anxious to drag down “normal” people, to share their inner hells. That’s the small price we must pay, to allow them a little brief relief. For them, and Obama, they have to live by “ponds pretending to be oceans”.
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