Victor Davis Hanson gives a good account of why we’re starting to hold him in contempt and concludes thusly:
But what is taking Obama down below 50% approval is mostly a public awareness that they elected a deeply cynical man, who either cannot or will not speak the truth or keep his promises (note the Nixonian resonance in “perfectly clear about…”). In fact, it is worse than that — in the postmodern world of Barack Obama there is no truth per se, just competing narratives privileged by the relative degree of power behind them and the relative perceived moral intent involved.
So when the advocates of hope and change, of non-traditional America, of the poor and the needy and the more noble, say something, it must be true because, you see, it should be true.
While the steady diet of lies seems to please our liberals (they are mistaken about it, but they don’t realize the lies are what make them so incredibly nasty), they do less well with the rest of us. Its an insult to say you’re going to get those dirty bankers when you appoint one of them to the Treasury – even after its revealed he’s a tax cheat. Doesn’t go down at all well to be assured, repeatedly and on camera, that you’ll have cameras in the health care room and then not have them there. Its not liked when people see regular folks demonstrating and hear them called racists and terrorists by the government they protest.
Its all gone wrong – because liberalism is wrong. Based upon a lie (ie, the perfectibility of Man by human action), it cannot do well and may only be sustained by lies. What we have in the Obama Administration is liberalism writ large – but for the first time, ever, writ large in a society which has providentially developed a New Media to tell the truth (talk radio, blogosphere, Fox News). People are seeing it in all its ugliness, and are turning on it.
The results in Massachusetts will go a long way towards demonstrating where we are and what we need to do. If there is a Republican win on Tuesday, then it will show that even some people who voted liberal did so in large part because they didn’t understand what they were voting for. They were voting for sweet rhetoric, and now they see disgusting reality.
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