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A peek behind the Democrat curtain
June 21, 2008 | Tagged "common" citizens, Culture War, Democrat elites, saving us from ourselves |
Do you cling to guns and religion out of bitterness? If you are old enough to remember the four years of indecision and miasma of the Carter Presidency, do you remember his plan to tax oil company “windfall” profits? I ask these questions, because every once in a while, the Democrat ”intellectual elites” slip and actually let us peek behind the curtain of their rhetoric to see what they really think about the American People.
In the case of Barack Hussein Obama, one slip was his remark about how rotten conditions in this country prompted the intellectually challenged lower classes to cling to what he obviously considers the infantile comforts of guns, religion and antipathy toward anyone who is not a redneck. The mainstream media dropped that story like a hot potato that slipped off the bowie knife of a backwoods cracker, while he was cooking up a possum. You know those crackers can’t do two things at once.
Now, Gail Collins, who writes for The New York Times, cautions John McCain to avoid comparing Obama’s windfall profits tax to the same kind of tax proposed by Jimmy Carter. “…Even if Americans had enough historical memory to recall what they didn’t like about Jimmy Carter’s energy policy, this” (McCain’s comparison of the two similar tax plans) “is a bad strategy…” (Collins, Gail, ” A bad day in the Rose Garden for the GOP,” The New York Times, The Denver Post, Denver Newspaper Agency, Denver, CO, 06-10-08, page 11B.)
I don’t know about your “historical memory,” but I remember the Carter years for a failure to support the Shah of Iran that resulted in the radical Islamic theocracy that rules the country today. I remember the brave men who were lost in the tragic embassy hostage rescue attempt. I remember the great sense of unease that gripped the country during those four years. I remember the “killer rabbit” that attacked Carter while he was in a canoe. Honest! How could you make up something like that? And I do remember that I didn’t like Carter’s energy policy then, and I don’t like the rehashed version now.
The problem that I have with the Democrats, generally, is that the hard left faction that has taken over the party does not believe that you and I have the good sense to pound sand in a rat hole or pour water out of a boot. They seem to think that without their inspired guidance, ordinary Americans will walk out into traffic, fall off cliffs, shoot our bitter selves and each other with our demonically evil guns, and pollute and greenhouse gas everybody off the planet.
If you don’t believe this, check out the United Kingdom, the “gold standard” for American gun control advocates. As I have mentioned before, having banned handguns and restricted ownership of all firearms and even non-firing replica guns, they are now collecting and considering a ban on sharp-pointed kitchen knives. If this trend continues, everyone in the U.K. will be eating strained peas and carrots from soft rubber contrainers, because the government will eventually ban plastic spoons and forks.
The hard-left Democrats sometimes refer to themselves as the “party of Jefferson.” I don’t think so. Jefferson always put his trust in the people, not the ruling elite. The Democrat elites want to take your tax money and use it to limit your freedom of expression (The Fairness Doctrine); take away your right to self-defense against crime and tyranny (a myriad of anti-Second Amendment laws and proposals); limit your health care options (single-payer plans that have strangled medical services in numerous socialist countries); and put all the “common” people on public transportation to reduce carbon emmissions. (People who don’t have cars are easier to control, by the way. You want them to stay home, you just shut down the public transportation system.)
And why do the oh-so-smart leaders of the Democrat Left want to do these things? They want to protect us from our stupid silly selves. If we keep our tax money, there’s no telling how we might spend it. We, gasp! We… Oh no! You know what? Yup! We just might go out and buy a gun.
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