It always tended to be my belief that one of the reasons liberal elites go on so about gun control is that it gives them a convenient way out of talking about inner city violence in America, especially among blacks, in terms that might connect this violence to an actual reality, ie the idea that this violence amounts to a graphic manifestation of how liberal policy, guided as it is by naivety and simplistic, ideologically driven rationalisations, has so abjectly, so utterly failed - Johnsons's great society, ah... not so great after all... kind of a gigantic fuck up, actually. Liberals can't go there of course - hell, that would involve questioning the whole point of the Obama revolution, for christ sake - so they blame the NRA et al, which is a proxy for blaming white people, which is a not so subtle way of saying that if black culture in places like Chicago is a god damn dysfunctional mess then that's the fault of... racism, of course. And accordingly on Morning Joe this morning David Axelrod blamed the social breakdown in Chicago's black community, the appalling violence, the flash mobs [a story which the liberal press is still managing to avoid somehow], the whole sad mess, Axelrod managed essentially to blame all this on the NRA - if only those evil white racists [I'm paraphrasing the between the lines stuff] would allow background checks on guns... ah, what miracles couldn't be wrought if America were only a little less white and little more brown - this is the way these people think, it's astounding - Obama's whole raison d'être can be summed up as: if you're a successful white guy and you don't feel guilty about that, there's something wrong with you. Pontification and misleading, guileful rhetoric upon race has become the avant-garde of the new socialism - one expects it will end as badly as the old socialism - worse, actually, since it's taking America with it this time.
It could take a generation to undo the amount of damage Obama has done - more - and that's assuming we get a competent, appealing republican in the White House in 2016, which quite frankly doesn't seem likely - so... I guess we're doomed.
