Spot On

Saturday 11 September 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + election + POTUS

As an overtly conservative outlet I tend to disagree with The American Spectator fairly often, and sometimes vehemently, but this post concerning America’s refutation of Obama and his back-asswards progressive policy is spot on:

I’ve written that progressivism as an ideology has trouble admitting that the majority oppose their ideas on principle. Progressives have dreamed up a fantasy where they are “the people” and conservatives are “the rich” and “the powerful” and “the top 2%.” An informed middle class rejecting the left’s economic ideas on substance is anathema to them. It causes their whole worldview to implode.

Thus there must be some other explanation. The voters must have fallen for “misinformation by the right-wing media.” Maybe they’ve let themselves get distracted by social issues on which the left hasn’t made enough progress. Perhaps they’ve become petulant and can’t understand what’s in their own best interest. It’s also possible Obama wasn’t as great a communicator as they initially thought. Or perhaps the Koch brothers are secretly running the country from an underwater lair. Or Glenn Beck is bribing everyone with gold.

The devastating reality is that 2010 will represent the most definitive rejection of progressivism in recent American history. But all we’ll hear from the progressives is a continuing stream of unhealthy denial.

Much like 2008, this election, and the next, will not be about confirming the ideology of the opposition, but about kicking the reigning party’s ass to the curb. The progressive left made a grave tactical error by understanding Obama’s landslide victory over McCain as a vote for progressivism rather than a sound bitch-slapping of neo-conism. Despite the progressive fantasy, America is a right-of-center nation which fundamentally believes in the free market and individual liberty.

Now if only we could, as a nation, stop voting against candidates for terrible policy, as opposed to voting for candidates because of their good policy ideas, maybe we could actually find some socio-political peace and start to regain some fucking liberty.¹

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1. Hint: that candidate very likely plays for neither Team Red or Team Blue.

2010-09-11  »  madlibertarianguy