Look in the mirror!
Posted by Ron Coleman on August 23, 2009
Glenn Reynolds cites Matt Welch, to the effect that “The Real Reason Americans Are Angry: It’s The Big Government, Stupid“:
It’s been a hilarious August, watching media supporters of President Obama’s health care package puzzle over the obscure motivations of the noncompliant Americans rallying against it. . . .
While the commentariat’s condescension is almost comical, the whole evil-or-stupid explanation misses the elephant in Obama’s room: Americans of all stripes, it turns out, aren’t very keen about the government barging into their lives. . . . This isn’t about liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. A majority oppose Obama’s policies because they fly in the face of this country’s bedrock values of personal liberty and limited government. . . .
Then, gentlemen, who are these angry people angry at?
THESE ANGRY PEOPLE ELECTED A COMPLETELY BIG-GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT. This “majority” elected Obama and two parliamentary houses full of whores (or worse) while being under no illusions whatsoever as to what “Obama’s policies” were going to be.
Either this is a “different majority” or someone is playing three-card monte here — can we have two 51 percents in the same whole?
We get the democracy we deserve when we vote for it.
And, by the way: I wonder how many members of this majority sat at home (0r worse) because John McCain’s conservativism wasn’t pure enough for them, and helped us arrive at this state of affairs?
And now these “Americans” are “angry” at Obama — for being Obama?!
Bob Miller said
You’re right. Everything voters needed to know was out in the open, but, of course, they “had” to respond to grand themes, personalities, star appeal, and the rest—not to the facts. The triumph of absurd expectations. So what if the mainstream media were in the can for Obama? Anyone with a little curiosity could have explored further.
Especially vivid/poignant/stupid were the gyrations of writers like Peggy Noonan who allowed themselves to be swept into enthusiasm for a man who opposed all their core beliefs at once.