And stepping away from their worthless leader would make them forfeit claim to that sense of superiority, wouldn’t it? Dead on!
The coming together of the twin supports of liberalism in America: Race and cult are literally embodied in the very person of Barack Obama. I have no doubt that his biography reveals, indeed reveals in his own words, that he consciously exploited race to manipulate white people as well as black people. There can be no doubt that he encourages the cult of personality. For any Democrat who has "drunk the Kool aid" to repudiate Barack Obama is to repudiate his own ego. He cannot do it. That is why Barack Obama's approval poll numbers are so stubbornly holding near the 50% mark and why I believe he will be difficult to beat in 2012.
These psychological and emotional impulses apply as much to the opinion shapers in the media as to the drudges in the Democratic Party. That is why the media contorts itself and abandons every journalistic ethic and even common sense in their coverage of this man. That is why we will have difficulty in the next election.
It was hopeless to confront an "est-hole" with reason because cultists are as impervious to reason as diarrhea is to a logic. Before the last election and ever since, I have been consistently saying that John McCain would lose that election, and we are likely to lose the next election, unless Barack Obama was and is morally destroyed. Nibbling away at the edges of Barack Obama's credibility and effectiveness in office will have effect only on those not already seduced. There are many independents who voted for Obama because they were voting against Bush. These people can be persuaded. Republicans, of course, were never duped. Beyond these people, the walls created around the cult by the Democrat party and Barack Obama himself must be shattered because the egos of the individuals,, like those who passed out at every Obama rally, must be shattered before they will abandon their fantasy. Thatis why John McCain's campaign was doomed from the start.
I think ridicule and satire are the best methods of showing that the Emperor has no clothes.
I wish you were wrong but you are making too much sense for that! I have not heard, until now, a persuasive argument as to why we might be ‘likely’ to lose the next election! Seriously I’ve been shaking my head thinking ‘surely even his drones will reject him now’ but I hadn’t really accepted the inalienable nature of their need to maintain his false image.
You mention ‘est-holes’ (ok that makes me giggle), I’m the kind of person that keeps thinking there must be SOME way to reach them, some way to prove false their delusions. In my own life I have ‘stayed in the room too long’ trying to convince people of something they don’t want to believe because I somehow think that reality is a corrosive that can slowly erode delusion if they are soaked in it. I wouldn’t be good dealing with ‘est-holes’, wouldn’t know when to stop or would become angry at the cognitive dissonance that they wholeheartedly embrace ALL WHILE FEELING SUPERIOR to you! I have a naive belief that reality will trump ego even though I technically ‘know better’, it’s hard to let go of that hope.
I keep applying my overly optimistic approach to the Dems as well. Aren’t they embarrassed yet? Aren’t they worried yet? Aren’t they out and out scared yet? Do they see the country coming off the rails yet? etc.
I have friends who are Obama supporters and each of us is surprised that the other doesn’t ‘get it’. We don’t say that to each other but it’s there. I keep pondering how I could not see her need for an emperor having known her more than 20 years. As you can see I am just thinking out loud here - WHY do they need a cult leader? Superiority - is this the only way they can get it? From a cult? Their day to day lives were not elevating them over others (people like me) so having the right political views is at last the way to finally prove a secret belief in their superiority. This is very very sad. Hard to ever wean them from their need for superiority once they have ‘enjoyed’ it for this long.
You comment about the need for their egos to shatter points at one more aspect of the next election I hadn’t thought of - that it will require mass trauma to his supporters. If he should expose his true nature and the populace should recoil, we’d have a scarey creep as POTUS and his supporters would be dazed and going through ego trauma - WHO would they turn to next??? They’d want to restore their egos as quickly as possible and are likely to seize on someone even...even...worse? They wouldn’t be able to embrace anyone normal - it would signal the permanent fall to earth of their egos. They’d have to elect some other cult leader right? *shudder*