Interesting audio has
surfaced of Hillary talking at a private fundraiser and describing Bernie
Sanders’ fans as delusional idealists looking for big govt hand outs of
progressivey treats like free university etc etc – not her words exactly of
course but that was gist of her remarks – false promises I think she called the
Sanders rhetoric.
Interesting for two reasons.
One, she’s of course right – but aside from that it’s reassuring to hear her
talk in a somewhat reasonable and moderate way, encouraging one to imagine or
legitimately hope that just maybe she won’t simply be a female version of
Obama, flouting our constitutional order by leveraging a biased media to push
forward an extremist agenda. Unfortunately, the other reason it’s interesting
is because that hope is probably doomed since Hillary, fearful that a lack of
enthusiasm from the far left is going to doom her, has adopted many of Sanders’
false promises.
In short, even if one manages
to convince themselves that Hillary is apt to govern as a moderate, it won’t
matter – the far left wields too much influence on the Democratic Party –
moderation will not be tolerated. Add to this disturbing zealotry and how
increasingly the media is morphing into the propaganda arm of that beast the frightening
fact that Obama will soon be free of having to fake moderation as President and
therefore will soon be stepping into his post White House role of being the
chief spokesman for the progressive agenda – I believe Obama will be the most
politically active ex-president ever and will exert a lot of influence
accordingly. And so, even if Hillary is
a more palatable choice than she currently seems and wants to for instance do
something like scrap the awful Iran nuke deal, forget about it – Obama will
summon his acolytes and the zealots will tear her apart. I mean, just look at
what happened to Jimmy Fallon, the guy who used to slow dance the news with
Obama – torn apart by the left just
for having Trump on his show – and Trump isn’t even a conservative! That’s how
out of control the left is and so even if one imagines there’s a moderate
hiding away somewhere in the great pant-suited one, that person will never see
the light of day.
The country’s in a bad place and
desperately in need of a highly skilled leader capable, like Reagan, of doing
the horse trading required of our republican system – that person’s nowhere to
be found. I’d say the one who comes closest to it is probably Ryan but when you
combine how out of control the left is and how media bias feeds that disease
with what Trump has done to the GOP it’s hard to see a path to the presidency
for someone like him. The system is designed to force compromise and
bipartisanship on the elected – its goal is moderation - the country is moving
in the exact opposite direction. It won’t end well.
I remember in 2008 being
convinced, in opposition to almost everyone I knew or had a daily contact with,
that Obama would be an awful president if he won – the opposition to my
viewpoint was so monolithic and in many cases vituperative – can’t tally how
many times it was insinuated I was racist - that I came to the point of hoping
Obama would win so that I could be proven right. Bush’s egregious mistakes
aside, mission accomplished there I think. Profoundly awful president. The reasons
why I thought he’d prove awful varied, but the chief reason I think was the way
the media was so in the tank for him – and not just in the tank, but in the
tank for the most simplistic, most vacuous, most naïve of reasons – he was
black – but not just black since Condelezza Rice would not have enjoyed such
sycophancy – he was a black guy who spoke the left’s idealist nonsense with a
perfect cadence – he didn’t sound black. He was the embodiment of the perfect
world the left dreams of, a world that can only
be created by their inclusive sentimentality.
And that’s what you learned – the left has little to do with ideas, with
objective analysis, with rationality applied to empirical evidence – it’s
ultimately about sentiment, about emotion, about feelings – about a desire that
the world be made to look like what they desperately need it to look like if
their beliefs are to remain relevant. That is essentially the definition of
idealism and essentially why Kant could never beat Hume in a debate – unless of
course the debate was moderated by CNN.
What the media being in the
tank for Obama told me was that he would be allowed to do whatever he wanted
and this indulgence would enable bad thinking, bad ideas, bad policy and bad
behavior – all evidenced by the Obama administration. Worse, mistakes would be
overlooked, explained away in order to serve the ideological imperative, and
therefore all the missteps that led to the mistakes would not be corrected,
compounding the malaise. Again, that pretty much defines the Obama
administration – its mistakes, which are many, are rationalized into a nebulous
cloud that the average voter cannot penetrate.
In practical terms, compare
to Bush – he had no choice but to address the mistakes of his Iraq invasion – I
don’t wanna debate the invasion itself since, forgetting twenty twenty hind
sight, legitimate arguments for and against can be mounted there – but the post
invasion thinking was quite clearly flawed. Bush was forced to face the
mistakes he made because the media attention thereof was relentless – thus the
surge. Where has the same standard been applied to Obama? It hasn’t – his
egregious mistakes involving Libya, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Russia, China,
Israel just vanish into the media induced cloud and therefore the mistakes
never have to be corrected – and therefore the thinking that engendered the
mistakes can be reproduced – and it is. Obama still talks about his approach to
Syria as if it was beautifully nuanced, foreign policy at its best –
frightening thing is, I don’t think per his usual that he’s lying when he says
that – I think the idiot actually believes it.
And that essentially defines the
awfulness of Obama. And probably defines Trump – a president who is so awful
yet so beloved by the media is bound to produce outrage I think amongst a great
many people – the establishment is clearly unable to stop this awfulness
therefore an establishment candidate is not going to have a lot of appeal –
thus Trump. Which is why it doesn’t seem to matter that Trump is not fit to be president
– people who support him feel the system is entirely fucked [they’re probably
right] and therefore don’t care about such niceties – I think a media corrupted
by bias is a very bad thing when it comes to democracy – the founding fathers
clearly felt that way – I think what we’re seeing is a consequence of that
corruption.
