The Disconnect

Observers have begun to highlight what Peggy Noonan calls a "disconnect" between Obama and normal Americans, between his preoccupations and their concerns. But she and most others, while they understand the result, really have yet to isolate the cause.

We put the spotlight on this phenomena early on. Because it explains the implosion of this presidency, it’s key to review it once more.

As our neighbor Vic Hansen so ably puts it, asking why BO could be so self-destructive, ignoring the masses and thereby tanking his own party is like asking "if multimillion-dollar-earning, Sarah Palin-interviewing Katie Couric is worried about her sinking ratings, or whether the New York Times columnists are upset that their mother paper is broke with subscription and readership down, and laying off thousands of blue-collar employees."

We have in Obama & Co. an almost boring, traditional statist bent on redistribution (Obama’s words), updated with the belief that almost everything requires gov’t affirmative reactions (explaining why abroad we shun our allies and serenade our enemies) and frosted with the Chicago ends justifies the means approach.

The easiest way we know to come to an understanding of this phenomena is to read Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle. Try it. You’ll see that just like Steinbeck’s Mac, the communist labor organizer, these true believers don’t care if they take out the Blue Dogs, if Reid bites the dust, or if Obama takes himself out. There is a cause larger than all of them. As we wrote Jan/1, in Health Care - A Means to an End, Obama & Co are rigidly programmed, as was Mac, to institutionalize an agenda that will affect America for generations, move it sharply to the left. They hope to become heroes or martyrs in the process.

And what is Obama’s agenda? Progressive statism (Webster: statism - a concentration of ...planning in the hands of a highly centralized gov’t). BO & Co’s core belief is that the state exists to level the playing field; obtaining that goal justifies any means.

Aside from this near-militant, core cadre - most of the rest of the left have simply been taken for a ride.

Robert Craven