The decision of modern man to live in the here and now is reflected in the neglect of aging parents, whom proper sentiment once kept in positions of honor and authority. There was a time when the elder generation was cherished because it represented the past; now it is avoided and thrust out of sight for the same reason. Richard Weaver
Sarah Palin is the left’s enemy because she adheres to first principles. Not only does Palin live-out her foundational belief and trust in God’s mercy, she has the audacity to inject her transendent belief into the public square. For the liberal, this is anathema. The Founding Father’s belief in what liberals consider “myth” is strictly verboten, and their so-called Roman Catholic representatives (Biden, Pelosi, etc.) vilify anyone with the temerity to consider public policy in light of first principles. Our adolescent president has even gone so far as to state America is no longer a Christian nation.
The left certainly has its share of God-hating supporters, who rally to the defense of Obama’s health care overhaul by marginalizing and stereotyping the opponents. In the New York times, Matt Bai writes: “The typical anti-Obama activist tends to be white, male and — perhaps most significant — advanced in age.“
Anti-Obama “activist”? Since when does opposing a policy equate to opposing a person or being an activist?
This type of irrationality and unfounded categorization is the normative behavior of adolescent mentalities; it reflects an over-emotive state brought on my hormonal changes that conflict with the newly acquired skill of abstract thinking. And, just as in adolescents, the left loses the battle to their emotions time and again. Thus, if we follow the left’s skewed logic to its conclusion, old people are one of the culprits for the lastest Rasmussen and Zogby polls showing the president’s approval rating at 46 and 42 percent respectively. Balderdash!
What the left refuses to understand is that “the Left is speaking from the dark heart of collectivism, a belief system that will collapse if it acknowledges any area in which the rights of an individual absolutely trump the needs of the State.” Therefore, regardless of its ongoing smears, stereotyping, and vilifying average Americans, liberal adolescence is not welcomed by thinking citizens, regardless of their age. And Sarah Palin drives this point home repeatedly, much to the chagrin and consternation of the left.
Analogous to American’s distate for the blatant power grab ensconced within health care reform is what Jennifer Rubin notes in her piece titled Media Stunned as ObamaCare Unravels:
Film screenwriter William Goldman once wrote of Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.” What is often true of movie-makers — due largely to the all-too human inability to predict what the public will like — is all the more accurate of mainstream media pundits. For all their years of experience and their supposed grasp of the fine points of politics, it seems most of them were caught flat-footed, just like the White House, when it came to the unraveling of ObamaCare.
Yes, one can make the argument that the left’s adolesence is wholly part of the media’s and Hollywood’s mindset and worldview, but the real issue is still the problem of emotion over reason. America’s liberals do not think, they react. And when it doesn’t go their way, then grandma and grandpa are “Nazis,” “evil,”, and “unAmerican.” So much for honoring and respecting those who eradicated fascism in World War II. In fact, if we left it up to Obama’s science “czar” and his czar’s friend Harrison Brown, America’s “anti-Obama activists” would already be Soylent Green.
Sarah Palin recognizes the irrationality of the left and she makes no effort to hide what America’s liberals and Obama are endeavoring to achieve. By rhetorically ripping-away the thin veil that masks the left’s evil intent, Palin has earned herself the wrath and contempt of those whose malevolent designs sneer at God and are filled with arrogant condescension toward average Americans. In essence, Palin clearly sees what Obama and his supporters are up to because, at the very least, she is a mother to teenagers. Who better to see the left’s emotive-based adolescent irrationality then a mother? Moreover, as a mother to adolescents, Palin knows that this age group, as it sees itself emancipated, is absolutely convinced that its parents are fearful of reality. However, it is the adolescent who doesn’t understand or grasp reality. And the adolescent’s perception that they are still treated as children instead of adults is well founded when said adolescents think, behave, and demand like children — just like Obama’s supporters and liberals in general.
So even though Obama strives to “act” presidential, it’s his flawed policies and his supporter’s antics that lend great credence to what Palin publicly states, and the body politic understands this at the conscious and sub-conscious levels. As Richard Weaver noted in his seminal work:
In the same way that our cognition passes from a report of particular details to a knowledge of universals, so our sentiments pass from a welter of feeling to an illumined concept of what one ought to feel.
Thus, those who oppose ObamaCare have matured to a level the adolescent has yet to achieve. And it is this very maturity that allows the opposition to understand the implied tasks of “death panels,” government-funded abortion, and free medical care for illegal aliens that the adolescent left vehemently denies exists in ObamaCare, even though it is clear these implied tasks are realistically deducible from the plain writing contained in the bill. And with Sarah publicly “outing” Obama as an adolescent president, is it any wonder the left is throwing a tempter tantrum?
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