Merchants of Despair
For more than three years now the man who entered the White House on a wave of hope and change has brought change with him alright – change in the form of economic chaos, incompetence, arrogance, and contempt for this country, its people, its allies and its system of government.
There is a wide and growing sense of despair in America today – a cloud that makes Jimmy Carter’s malaise of the late 70s look like an utterly joyous romp in the park.
So where do we start with these merchants of despair? How about with David Axelrod, whose governing philosophy is pretty simple: don’t let a crisis go to waste. The man who brought the filthy, corrupt, arm-twisting politics of southside Chicago to Main Street USA. A cynical, mean-spirited opportunist who knows that there’s no path to victory for this president by running on his own record and so, time and time again, he reverts to race and class warfare. You know, the ‘fat cats’, the one percenters, the evil bankers, the racist Tea Partiers, the rich who don’t pay their fair share. All of it.
It’s classic agitprop. It’s Saul Alinsky Frankfurt School tactics and it’s set a tone that has turned this country into a tribal battlefield, and turned the President who should have been above all of this into the most divisive, petty partisan hack that this republic has ever seen.
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For those of you who are not familiar with Bill Whittle and his ‘Afterburner’ segment on PJTV, I strongly (with a capital S) urge you to watch the seven-minute video from which I transcribed the above (which amounts to about the first two minutes).
I have occasionally, tongue in cheek, told my husband that, Bill Whittle is the only man I would consider leaving him for, if I were 20 years younger. The funny thing is that my husband fully understands. :)
Every one of Whittle’s Afterburner segments is an absolutely brilliant commentary on the politics of the day – more brilliant than any other commentator you will see, hear or read. He pulls no punches, accurately reads between the lines, calls a spade and spade, and loves America. His memorial tribute to his good friend, Andrew Breibart, is a classic example of his ability to cut to the quick in a way that would deeply affect anyone with an open mind, and a heart.
If you haven’t yet seen this video, I urge you to set aside seven minutes of your day today and do so. You won’t spend a more informative seven minutes anywhere else today, and you’ll walk away from it feeling a perverted sense of uplift, because someone else gets it, and says it in a way that the average American can understand.
I’d vote for the guy for president based solely on what I’ve seen in his Afterburners over the past year. We need common sense, unabashed patriotism, intelligence, and genuine (as opposed to glib, poll-derived) liberty-centered vision more than we need ‘experience’ in government and promises of more handouts.
Too bad he’s not running. And too bad he wouldn’t stand a chance even if he were. :( |
