Ya Gotta Believe
It seems there is an endless supply of Kool Aid. The best way to characterize Ms. Pelosi is that she is the alter ego of Harold Camping, he of course from the ‘end of the world’ campaign. While Camping exhorts people to repent and be saved when the end finally comes, Ms. Pelosi essentially exhorts people to just carry on being idiots and then their gang will regain the House.
Undeterred by the havoc that her reign in office caused to the American people, she blithely insists that the tidal wave of economic and social destruction swamping the nation is actually clearing the decks for a resumption of her party to a majority in government. Ms. Pelosi seems to think that people will buy into the economic theory embraced by the liberal Democrats that if you spend enough money, all the bills will be paid off. She shares the same delusional view as an eighty year old stripper about her job prospects. Sure there’s optimism, but there’s also an annoying thing called reality. As stated before many times here, anyone is free to say what they want in a free society. What is puzzling is the audience that these crazies capture. It’s Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football played out in real life. It dawns on me that a very large segment of society will keep lunging for the football knowing full well they’re going to miss. How is this any different from Harold Camping’s followers who, in the absence of any kind of evidence, buy into his version of reality?
Aha, so that’s the secret. Tap into your particular constituency and market it in a big way. No matter how far from the earth’s orbit your ideas may be, there will always be an audience that will embrace you as an omniscient savant. If not for the fact that the kind of demagoguery that Pelosi practices is dangerous, it would be extremely farcical. There’s great irony in a party which preaches togetherness and kumbaya, but then identifies and categorizes groups in society that are ‘more equal’ than others. Theirs is the world of have versus have not, race versus race and us versus them. As a pundit on a talk show recently commented, Pelosi and her ilk are fostering a society where “earning money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting it does”. Combine this with a media that is unable to determine where the line separating right from wrong or what constitutes truth versus lies and you have as a result, the cultural zeitgeist that we are in today.
That Pelosi can still be considered a legitimate spokesman for the incumbents despite the calamitous last 3 years is truly a credit to her…I guess. It’s as if she was shopping for wallpaper after the house has burned down. But we should note that Harold Camping still has an audience too.