“..Well, frumps, things are definitely starting to look up for Democrats and the Obama administration .. if my Lunatic Fringe barometer can still be trusted.
I’ve discovered, over the past year, that there is a quantifiable inverse relation between the fortunes of the Obama White House and threats of violence from the far-right reaches of the blogosphere.
None too stable at the best of times, these folks have a tendency to fly around the room backwards whenever Obama shows signs of succeeding at advancing his domestic social policy agenda.
Obama has an interesting way of achieving his ends.
He allows debate to rage unbridled .. allows people to act out vent melodramatically .. until we are all simply exhausted by the topic.
Then, as we mentally move on, he quietly administers CPR and, next thing you know, dead-in-the-water issues are moving apace toward realization.
It’s a pretty impressive strategy, to me, at least.
Just think about the health care reform battle.
A year went by while we raged and fumed on our various sides of the issue.
As Obama put it in his Health Care Summit, last week, “everything that could be said, had been said.â€
Gray-haired grannies duked it out with the local teamsters in Town Halls.
Conspiracy theorists pumped up the volume .. and warned us all of The New World Order and/or Socialism/Fascism that lie just around the corner.
Gun nuts decided to pack a little heat as long as we were all taking stands.
Constitutionalists called for either a Second Revolution or a Second Civil War ..
.. (take your pick, but the Civil one has better costumes)..
.. causing a world-wide shortage of small arms ammunition.
Some were ready to chuck it all and just plain secede.
All because Obama and Co. got the wild idea that the American people might benefit from some help with the insurance industry that was eating their lunch and bankrupting millions.
Clearly Obama hasn’t learned yet to never underestimate the ignorance and paranoia of “just plain folks.â€
And before anyone decides to whack me with the nasty stick, I’m not saying that I think Americans are stupid –
- gullible, perhaps and intellectually lazy, almost certainly – but not stupid.
It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude just to be an American in the 21st century.
It’s no simple thing to be a member of one of the most technically advanced capitalistic empires on Earth.
It’s a 24/7 job just to keep up – why else would we need so many Iphones and Smartphones and Droids, websites and apps and such ..
.. if life was free and easy?
Since we are harried and over-stimulated and overcommitted in every way, it’s no surprise that determined people, with their own agenda ..
.. can make us believe that up is down .. and left is right..”
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