Disconnect

Many of us ponder the disconnect between the left’s predictions/policy, and reality ahead. The two rarely match; things rarely work out for them but this never presents a problem to these folk. They're not bothered by it. Result is almost irrelevant, it is only rhetoric that counts, noise and emotion. They continue to roll ahead, untethered, children at the dinner table. We all suffer for it.

We worked for a high school in Marin for a bit. That experience provided a major leg up in understanding the left. Talk in the faculty room is completely in the abstract; it is detached from any proven norm; the notion of a historical track record is omitted. It’s all feel good stuff. Historical precedence? Are you kidding? The Founders’ intent? Who are they? Certainly this is Obama’s background (simply at a more elevated level). He’s taken these notions picked up in the lounge and tried to make application. But most working Americans don’t think like this, hence the tanking of his ratings.

Why then do academics think like this? Easy, 1) it feels good and 2 they can get away with it. They live in a cacoon and are almost completely protected from their actions. There are zero repercussions, even when applied in the classroom. In their business their clients are young, pliable and naive - just kids - compliant and agreeable. Unlike most of us these academic types are individuals who are rarely held accountable, thanks party to their powerful unions, partly to the culture at these schools - high school, university, whatever. What do you think it takes to get fired from a teacher’s job? You need a Gatling gun to get that done; taking out the whole Eng dept would do it (taking out the business or math dept, not likely).

So Stalin’s useful idiots continue to roll ahead, oblivious to result. This explains Obama (as a sidelight, it also explains the poisoning of our kids).

Robert Craven