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It just happened again.
I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my
writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate
political conversations with the people who pass by — my hope always being
to begin to enlighten them as to what conservatives really believe (and not
just what the leftist media tells them.)
Today, the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my latest acquaintance
blurted out: “Oh I hate her.” Since she did not yet know my politics, and
since we were in Los Angeles, it is clear that she expected to hear back
what you usually hear back in this city: “Yeah, I hate her, too.” Instead
, I asked her why.
At this point I could have predicted her response because it’s the same
response you get from liberals no matter who on the Right you’re talking
about: “Because she’s stupid.” I replied: “Being stupid is no reason to
hate someone, but tell me, which one of her policies do you disagree with?
” It wasn’t hard to predict her response: “All of them!”
I continued to push. “Well, then, if it’s all of them, it should be easy
for you to name one.” Her reply? “They’re too many to list.”
“So don’t list them, just give me one,” I said.
This went on for awhile until my new acquaintance finally admitted that she
didn’t know any of Ms. Palin’s policies. Before she ran off – Democrats
always run off when asked to provide facts to justify their hatred for
Republicans – I looked her in the eyes and said, “If you don’t know any
of her policies, perhaps you should look into them.” She promised she
would. She won’t. If there are two things you can count on with Democrats
, they are filled with hate and empty of facts.
But it got me to thinking. Given that these people don’t know any of Ms.
Palin’s political positions, what is it about her that they hate? It has
to be her life story. Now, to all decent people, Ms. Palin’s life story
could not be more laudable. She married her high school sweetheart to whom
she remains married and with whom she is apparently still in love. In the
harshest of climes, she and Todd started a small business which, apparently,
they ran well enough to purchase a home and raise a family. Despite the
long hours required to run a family business and raise children, when Ms.
Palin saw that the public schools were not doing a good job in educating her
children, she joined the local PTA and was so effective there that the
people who knew her best – and in small towns like Wasilla there are very
few secrets – elected her to be their mayor.
Apparently, Ms. Palin was so effective in that job that the mayors of the
other small towns and big cities elected her president of the Alaska
Conference of Mayors. After a highly successful stint as chairman of the
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she ran an uphill battle against
an entrenched Republican governor and was elected to the top position,
Governor, of the largest state in the nation. She did that job so well that
her approval ratings – despite having ruffled the feathers of the leading
political family in Alaska – bordered on 80 percent.
As Ms. Palin’s political horizons continued to grow, she found out she was
pregnant with her fourth child, a baby with Downs Syndrome. Despite knowing
in advance that this child would require even more attention and care than
other kids, Ms. Palin opted to give her child – Trig – life.
So, given that those who hate – hate!!! – Ms. Palin know nothing more than
these facts about her, what is it about Ms. Palin’s life story that
generates this blind loathing? The answer is that, at every turn, Ms. Palin
’s story debunks the myths of victimization and self-centeredness that is
at the heart of the modern liberal ideology.
First, Ms. Palin is married with children. The Democrat Party’s treasured
storyline is that women with children – especially those who take care of
them themselves – are oppressed, victimized and doomed to a life without
personal fulfillment. Ms. Palin’s life proves them wrong and the Democrats
hate her for this. If Ms. Palin were a Democrat she would have offed the
last child before he was born so that she could have more “me” time to
pursue her own wants and pleasures. There is clearly something very “wrong
” with this woman who allowed her “special needs” child to live. They
hate her for that.
One of the most obvious demographic differences between the Left and the
Right is that people without children – those too self-centered and jealous
of others stealing “their” attention, angry and hate-filled “feminists,
” radical homosexuals and school children too young to have started a
family — are just about guaranteed to pull the lever for anyone with a “D
” next to their names. Those married with children are just as assured to
pull the lever for someone from the Right.
And Sarah Palin ran a small business. Democrats don’t run businesses. In
fact, Democrats don’t do anything. If you eliminated from the voting roll
everyone who did nothing other than talk – the academic, the newscaster,
the actor, the politician – and those who game the system, collecting
welfare and years of unemployment benefits and “workman’s compensation”
and food stamps, how many people would be left voting Democrat?
Let’s put it this way, if having had a job – having done something that
required either physical labor or risking one’s own money – were a
prerequisite to work in the White House, Barack Obama would have to fire 94
percent of his top advisers. That’s a real number. Ninety four percent of
Obama’s top advisers have never done anything like run a small store,
paint a bridge, wire a house for electricity or anything else other than
flap their lips.
This is the genesis of the notion that Palin is “stupid.” Liberals are
convinced that there’s something “the matter” with people who have jobs.
This is what they mean by “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” Kansas being
a place where people work – Hollywood, Cambridge Massachusetts, the TV
studios in Manhattan are places were people talk. To the liberal, anyone
who has a job must be stupid, after all, not everyone is as good a talker as
they are, but surely everyone can find one excuse or another to sit at home
and collect welfare.
In fact, to the modern liberal, anyone who has a job is not just stupid, he
(or she) is dangerous. These people “cling” to their guns and their
religion because they toil for their reward. These people are constantly on
the verge of violence, whether it’s an attack like the one they caused in
Tucson (according to the leftist script) or just by going home and beating
their children. Consider the lyrics of “the working man’s troubadour” by
Bruce Springsteen:
Early in the morning/factory whistle blows
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes.
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning line
That’s the work, the workin’, that’s the workin’ life.
End of the day/Factory whistle cries
Man walks through them gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get it tonight.
(Why?) Cause that’s the work, the workin’ that’s that workin’ life!
Sarah Palin is stupid and dangerous because, well, to those who have made
their millions by doing nothing other than talking, that’s the work, the
workin’ that’s the workin’ life. Just in case you think that’s just one
example of Springsteen’s take on anyone who has a job, consider the
horrors of his “daddy” who “worked his whole life, for nothing but the
pain.” In this song, “Adam Raised a Cain,” daddy, of course, beats his
children, “now he walks these empty rooms searching for something to blame.
” And, in fact, it gets worse because, clearly, a child who is beaten is
going to continue that cycle of violence and beat his child (“you inherit
the sins/you inherit the flames”). So, even to the most sympathetic leftist
like Springsteen, not one, not two, but three generations are destroyed all
because “daddy” had to go to work.
And they hate Sarah Palin because she joined the PTA and made things better.
No, no, that’s not supposed to happen. Schools (read: the teachers’
union) need more money, only more money will solve the problems in the
schools. Sarah Palin must be destroyed!
And, finally, they hate Sarah Palin because she was a successful mayor and
governor. The Democrat Party narrative is that the American people are too
stupid to successfully govern themselves and need Harvard and Yale elitists
to dictate to them how they should live their lives. If a graduate of the
University of Idaho can successfully run the biggest state in the union,
then so can a kid who graduated from Texas A & M or even a kid with a degree
from Eureka College.
If Democrats disagreed with Ms. Palin on the issues that would be one thing.
But they don’t merely “disagree” with her, they hate her and they hate
her without caring one whit about where she stands on the issues. They hate
her because she is living proof that everything about the Democratic Party
narrative is a lie and for this reason she cannot be allowed to be liked —
because if Democrats liked her, they might actually listen to her policies. |
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