Now that this poll is showing that the public does not support the unionization of the public sector, I'm sure we can expect all sorts of sneering condescension form the usual suspects about how Americans don't support their own economic interests. they do of course. It's just that the liberal media doesn't realize that unionizing the public sector isn't IN the economic interest of Americans.
And if you think this nonsense in Wisconsin is bad, just wait until the next governor tries to defang the unions. My bet is that will be the moment when Frances Fox Piven get's her wish for a violent revolution. The only difference will be that she's been hoping it would be the poor who rise up to crush their rich oppressors, and in reality it will be our pampered and hopelessly spoiled civil servants, rising up to ensure that they can retire with full pay at 50, and get free medical care for life from taxpayers who have to work like dogs till the day they die to pay for it.
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Putting aside Ben Smith's hackery for a minute, do you see in the intermediate future (6-12 months) a point when the media recognizes that 64% isn't a "hard sell" but instead a sizable majority against their position of choice? I'd guess they'll go down with the BO re-election ship if it comes to that, but I, perhaps naively, think some "mainstream" or even pseudo-mainstream outlets will have to give up the ghost before that. (Obviously this excludes NYT, WaPo, etc.).
I don't think they'll ever give it up, and I'll tell you why. These media outlets don’t push a leftist world view as part of a conspiracy to ‘manipulate the rubes’. If that were what was driving them then at least some of them would have reacted by now to their continually shrinking market share by switching sides. No - to the liberal, their liberalism is a deeply personal position inexorably tied to ‘who they are’. Self congratulation defines their every impulse. “I’m a good person because I believe in < insert nonsensical liberal tripe here> is the watchword of their lives.
And because it’s so directly tied to their insecurity, they would sooner shave their heads than give it up. They lack the courage for the kind of honest self examination it would take to face their insecurities, so their only choice is to continue to rationalize. In other words, the medial liberals aren’t liberal because of something that they think is wrong with us, they’re liberals because of what they think is wrong with them. They’re liberal because they’re terrified, and they have no other choice.
I’ll give you another example that actually came up at dinner with a friend last night.
We say that we admire the intelligent in this country but the truth is, we really don’t. For most people, when they meet someone who is MUCH more intelligent than them - so much so that it’s obvious to them and to everyone around them - they feel insecure and stupid in comparison. So instead of admiring the person with more intelligence and trying to learn from them, they will sneer at them and ridicule them. They’ll do everything they can to belittle the smarter person – just as a defense mechanism.
Along those same lines, Liberalism is a kind of moral stupidity. They know they’re less moral, but they can’t help it so they sneer instead.
Well said. Thanks. Follow-up: if they're never going to give it up voluntarily, do you seen any catalyst (a massive funding or USD crisis, Carter-stagflation, protests in streets turning violent, CA or IL bankruptcy, etc.) that would allow an adult from the conservative/libertarian side of the spectrum to capitalize on their folly, get elected, and FORCE them to give it up? I guess it would be a place where moral stupidity will still exist, but it would be more theoretical than in day to day practice?
Something in the cliched vein of "without Carter we wouldn't have had Reagan"
I don't know - I think the people in the center will swing right and conservative positions will become dominant, but that won't change liberals.
Reagan had been around for years - Carter didn't create him he just gave him a victory. And I've written before that hardship is the thing that actually teaches liberals to accept reality - nothing else has any effect. The more serious the hardship, the greater percentage that learnjavascript:void(0)s from it.
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