Posted on 05/17/2014 7:38:44 AM PDT by george76
He owes it all to the Keystone Kops of the leisure class. For the past decade the Democrats have managed to defy gravity by bolting together an unlikely coalition of the richest and poorest Americans. It’s no secret. Ever since President Bush’s re-election in 2004, the pattern has been clear. People making above $100,000 and below $40,000 vote Democratic. The people in the middle vote Republican.
But now that top-bottom coalition is about to come apart, or lose its majority status at least. And the issue will be one that may loom larger than the debacle of Obamacare — the Keystone Pipeline.
.. African-Americans vote 90 percent for him and form an indispensable part of his coalition. But Obama hasn’t done a thing for them since taking office except increase unemployment.
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Obama’s critical support comes from the upper crust of America, the citizens who live comfortably sheltered in academia and the non-profit sector, who don’t care much about electricity or the manufacturing economy but who honestly believe that we can shut down the whole middle portion of the country and turn off the lights in order to save the world from the “pollution” of carbon dioxide.
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Obama’s most crucial supporters — the upper-class environmental movement — have drawn the line in the sand. Approve the Keystone Pipeline and he’s toast.
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It has now become obvious that the economy is never going to improve under Obama because he and his supporters don’t want it to.
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When you couple an aristocratic upper crust that has lost interest in economic progress with a lumpenproletariat that doesn’t understand growth and only wants handouts from the government, you have a prescription for long economic decline.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The key word is “lumpenproletariat”.
q.v. - (From Wikipedia)
“Paulo Freire contributed a philosophy of education that came not only from the more classical approaches stemming from Plato, but also from modern Marxist and anti-colonialist thinkers. In fact, in many ways his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) may be best read as an extension of, or reply to, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961), which emphasized the need to provide native populations with an education which was simultaneously new and modern (rather than traditional) and anti-colonial (not simply an extension of the culture of the colonizer).”
“coalition of the richest and poorest Americans”
That describes the Democrat wing of the Party of Government. And it’s not going away in our lifetimes.
First MORE than 90% of African-Americans voted for Obama. Second Democrats NEVER do anything for blacks except 'feel their pain', rile up their hatred, and offer promises that are never kept.
That’s the problem with the argument. They’ll never not support Obama.
BTW, what demographic group votes 90% for anyone?
The collectivist coalition will not unravel. They know too little.
I’m starting to believe that elections are decided more by who *doesn’t* vote than who does.
I would agree that their coalition is unstable. Each coalition subgroup-(blacks, non Christians, Asians, Mexicans and perverts) -wants the largest portion of Western wealth. The various groups will fight to see which one will engage in the final sack. That may be the salvation of the West if they kill themselves off.
The question is, will tearing down Obama help Hillary?
Democrat have no worries about the Africanmerican vote. All they have to do is; Pull out one of their KKK robes and hoods. Dress someone in it, take a photo, then caption the picture as who ever is the Republican nominee. SHAZAM! Instant 95% of the Africanmerican vote. With the hood in place, who is to say it is not Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin or Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or whomever.
Yes.
If Obama's presidency had been an unquestionable success - Hillary would run on 'I'll keep the good times rolling'.
Since Obama's presidency has NOT been an unquestionable success - Hillary will run on, 'I'm the REAL democrat - Obama wasn't liberal enough'...
Yes.
If Obama's presidency had been an unquestionable success - Hillary would run on 'I'll keep the good times rolling'.
Since Obama's presidency has NOT been an unquestionable success - Hillary will run on, 'I'm the REAL democrat - Obama wasn't liberal enough'...
Oh, AND the suck ups in the MSM - even the boys at the New York Times - will start noticing Obama's flaws...
Rats are going for the Trifecta
1. The first black President - Check
2. The first woman President - Check when Hillary wins
3. The first out homosexual President - TBD
That would be a mistake.
When democrat go after the ‘right to life’ vote, we can go after the black vote.
Also, when democrats make this new bunch of illegals into card carrying democrats WE need to offer citizenship to Chinese in exchange for them voting Republican. If we bring over 60 million Chinese to vote for us - (and fight for ‘the Asians Dreamers’...) we get the last laugh...
Will the little 'know nothings' at the New York Times and Washington Post wake up and cry 'unfair' if we bring over 60 million Chinese illegally to vote Republican? You bet the little jerks will wake up... it'll be fun to watch their lies and excuses... and how 'this is different'...
Herein lies the essential difference between progressives and conservatives, at least in Western philosophy: it's as old as ancient Greece, the dispute between Plato and Aristotle.
Plato thought the best society was built from the top down, with well-educated Guardians telling the schlubs, meaning the rest of us, ("lumpenproletariat," the Marxists would say) what to do, and in return be taken care of.
Aristotle thought the best society was built from the bottom up, with everyone educated in virtue, and authority balanced between the demos and the oligos, essentially the basis for the British Commons and Lords, or the original US House and Senate.
Progressives like Plato's politics, because they say they care about the people, but they don't trust the people. Conservatives like Aristotle's politics, because they also say they care about the people, but they show it, not by handouts, but by training in virtue, and then trusting the people.
The American amendment to Aristotle is the Founders' belief that virtue comes, not simply by practicing virtuous habits, but by relying on God's grace. That is why, among other reasons, Franklin defined humility as imitating Jesus and Socrates, because without Socrates there is no political basis for training people in virtue, and without Jesus there is no power (and remember, in Greek "virtue" is arete, meaning the power to do good) to overcome sin and replace it with virtue.
We are God’s instruments of action!!! He is sending us the correct path to politically destroy Godless, Obama and his Godless Democrats. Get out and vote in the upcoming November, 2014, Mid-Term elections and destroy the entire Democrat Party, and along with its destruction...the destruction of Barack Hussein Obama......the would be destroyer of these United States of America!!! Vote!!!
To me it’s clear we have a homo president already, still in the closet.
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