Glimpses of the liberal mind
Posted: September 16th, 2009 | Author: JM | Filed under: Liberals, Obama, Racism |Infuriated by the public’s continued opposition to ObamaCare, liberals have resorted to their final and most odious attack: denouncing Obama’s opponents as racists.
Some Democrats cry racist as a political tactic, in hopes of stirring up the White Guilt that got Obama elected and extending it to the health care bill. They’re the minority. For most liberals - the ones impressed by Arianna Huffington’s accent, wowed by Keith Olbermann’s fake adverbs, and automatically convinced of everything the mainstream media tells them- their cries of racism are without forethought or political calculation. They see conservatives disagreeing with the president and immediately conclude “RACISM!”
Conservatives need not be offended by liberals flinging the R-word at them. There’s no honest basis for the accusation, and in making it, liberals reveal their ugly, inner selves. Conservatives should take it as an opportunity to observe the liberal mind.
Opponents of the “public option” haven’t mentioned President Obama’s skin color, but they have mentioned data, philosophical differences, and specific passages within the text of the bill. So why are liberals calling them racists? It’s safe to say liberals’ accusations aren’t based on anything they’ve observed. The cries of racism come from somewhere else inside.
Of conservatives and liberals, which group is obsessed with race? Which group talks endlessly about racial issues, often conjuring up racial tension that previously didn’t exist, and staging racial hate crimes to “prove” a political point? Which group advocates the celebration of “ethnic diversity,” and tells people to see themselves in terms of their race? Which group drools over Sonia Sotomayor as the first Latina justice, or Barack Obama as the first black president (after questioning for months whether he was black enough)?
When a liberal breaks from a debate over health care and, out of the blue, calls his conservative opponent a racist, there’s only one explanation: he’s projecting. The liberal is denying his own racist tendencies by ascribing them to the conservative.
Liberals see Obama primarily as a black man. They can’t help but think of him in racial terms. His personality, his past, his ideas, his actions, all are obscured by the liberal obsession with race.
When conservatives oppose Obama, liberals assume it must be because of his race. The liberal takes his simplistic, race-based perspective and projects it onto the conservative.
What can a conservative do but laugh? Next time a liberal hits you with the R-word, don’t waste time defending yourself. Tell him he’s the one fixated on race, and the conversation can’t progress until he works through his repressed, racial angst.
Examples of liberals projecting are abundant. They recently dismissed the Tea Parties and health care protests as astroturf, when they, the liberals, were astroturf. Photos of the events showed conservatives holding hand-made signs and citing very personal and specific reasons for protesting. The liberals reiterated tired, old talking points and held machine-produced signs, obviously handed out by large, well-funded organizations.
After whining about “millions of Americans left uninsured” (the majority of whom choose not to purchase insurance) and the so-called “health care crisis” (we have the best health care on the planet), liberals derided Sarah Palin for her “scare tactics” in opposing the plan. Palin criticized Democrats for the bill’s death panels. She wasn’t lying to scare people into accepting her politics — the way liberals did when they claimed the health care system was in shambles. She was pointing to a specific, undeniable provision of the text and raising a legitimate concern.
Liberals pride themselves on their feminist values, yet their treatment of Sarah Palin proved they’re shockingly misogynistic. As I discuss in my upcoming book, Sarah Quaylin (available next month on Amazon), the only thing liberal feminists have accomplished is telling women to act masculine. When a powerful, feminine woman like Sarah Palin comes along, they degrade her for her feminine traits. At the same time, liberals project their sexism onto conservatives. They tell themselves they are enlightened, tolerant, progressive; it’s the conservatives holding women back.
Rush Limbaugh asked today whether the country is capable of having a black president. If the president’s opponents can’t criticize him without his supporters screaming racist, how can the political process possibly work? It’s up to liberals to relinquish their obsession with race and to deal with Obama not as a black man, but as the President of the United States.
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