Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four: so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I actually found someone in Utah who admits that he is proudly voting for Obama. Since proud Obama supporters are hard to find in Utah, I decided to find an answer to a question that has been bothering me: why would someone vote for Obama? This sounds like a simple question, and the mainstream media’s answer is “Duh, it’s obvious.” Well my conversation was revealing.
Here is a multiple choice question that you can present to anyone you find who supports Obama:
Why are you voting for Obama?
a. He is young
b. He seems like a good guy
c. He is smart
d. He presents himself well
e. He will bring much needed change
f. All of the above
This was a trick question. And most Obama supporters will fall into the trap and pick f, the only right answer. Once you get these reasons out of the way, you can then begin the fun and somewhat elitist project of pointing out how ignorant Obama supporters are when it comes to discussing actual issues – and you get to do it right to their face.
With my acquaintance I got into taxes, judges, education, the military, and the pitfalls of socialism, and guess what? He agreed with my positions on these issues, which means he doesn’t agree with a single thing that Obama really stands for. He then expressed his surprise that as a Utahn I actually had my own opinion about these things instead of just voting how my parents vote. I then later found out that the main reason he wants to vote democrat is because his grandparents who raised him are staunch Republicans, and he opposes their close-mindedness. In other words, his political persuasion is determined more as a reaction to someone else’s politics rather than as a response to a reasoned, self-reflective analysis of where he stands on certain issues. And this my friends is your cookie-cutter Obama acolyte.
Ironically, Obama’s unwillingness to discuss issues or answer hard questions has yielded him an army of the best kind of supporter there is: One who follows by reaction instead of reason. Unfortunately, history has proven that these kinds of supporters also lend themselves well to socialist experimentation.
A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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brilliant RWE quotes…too bad I think too many people are misinformed or ignorant
Unfortunately hot, eloquent, free-thinking Obama is going to win this election not because he is the most transparently clear principled candidate with a lot of experience, but because that is precisely what he is not. McCain will not make one bold move this election. He’ll choose the most predictable VP, one with white hair and bad joke telling skills, like himself, who can carry Florida; he’ll beautifully exploit his own military service, promise to put money back in our empty accounts and remain a slave to establishment politics. And that is why McCain can’t win. Obama will win because he’ll be bold and fresh. He’ll eventually fall prey to the same predictability and bore that is John McCain, but not until long after ignorant America, including your own reactionary state, has made him our next president.
Dude, you don’t want change? You want a third Bush term? Find me someone younger than 70 that is voting for McCain, and then I’ll listen.
Michael Savage has it right. Liberalism is a mental disorder. It is a disorder which predisposes one to the most contradicting political positions. I’ve met a few self-proclaimed liberals here at school, and when you pin them down on their arguments, not one of them really is liberal.