There is a woman who I know, not a close friend as such, but an acquaintance from work. She is educated and like myself, is employed by the major corporation for which we work. It’s a professional environment and demanding position that carries a lot of responsibility. In our field, serious money is at stake and the job that we do must be done right, or money will be lost. In my case, like hers, the job involves quality control. We look for things that aren’t supposed to be there and we fix them. In this way, the company avoids costly errors and makes a profit.
And of course she is a liberal. Not a liberal in the old fashioned sense. Not a classical liberal as the term was once used in the US and is still used in parts of Europe. No, she is on the political left. Now I mention the bit about work because it contrasts with something that I have noticed about your garden-variety liberals and perhaps you have too. While they may indeed be good at their jobs and notice the things that they are supposed to at work, they seem to notice little else in the larger world.
Except for Pop Culture.
And that is the problem. It is a major problem because the world in which we live is becoming ever more complex and more dangerous. To be able to function in the world as it is today one must be able to see and connect all sorts of complex information into something coherent. Under the best of circumstances this is a demanding task. But as the world moves faster and faster the task becomes more difficult. And the stakes are getting higher. Policies put into place by liberals invariably have destructive effects. Not on the bad guys of course, but on us. All the more when you have someone like Obama in office.
There is little doubt in the minds of many that the path he is following is one designed to bring America down as much as he can. Obama does not like us, nor was there ever any reason to think that he would. He was raised in a distinctly anti-American environment and taught to hate the country that most of us value. The things that he is doing are done with this end in mind. They are not an accident. Nor are they the result of simple incompetence. He means to bring us down and to hurt us in any way he can. And now that he has only two years left in his term, all bets are off. He knows, based on past experience, that he can simply violate the constitution and no one will take any action to stop him. And so he does anything he thinks he can get away with.
He spies on Americans without warrants or constitutional mandate. He targets his political enemies using the IRS. He allows veterans to die at the hands of the VA. He ships guns to the drug gangs in Mexico. He nationalizes the health care sector of the economy without regard to the laws of economics and steals the health care plans of millions. He allows the most dangerous terrorists in the world a get out of jail free card. He attacks American industries with the sole purpose of putting them out of business. He uses Gestapo tactics to silence his critics. He does all of this while he is spending us into oblivion. And he uses our money to give himself an endless series of vacation that would shame a Roman Emperor.
And people like my liberal friend are oblivious to all of it because their attention is focused on the latest obscure rock bands and who is on the cover of the tabloid magazines. The news they get is highly filtered by The Elite Media Monoculture to make sure than no inconvenient facts get through that might throw The Chicago Jesus into an unflattering light. And so they do not see and do not live in the world that you and I do. The real world where bad policies have terrible results in which people are hurt and suffer from them. Of course those people aren’t cool or hip and none of them are on TV.
