Posted on 08/06/2005 9:12:08 AM PDT by smoothsailing
SATURDAY, AUGUST 06, 2005
Dr. Dean's misdirected outrage
National Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean frequently blames the world's ailments on President Bush in particular and conservative Republicans in general, at times with such fervor that even fellow Democrats express their misgivings about his rash rhetoric. The former Vermont governor, a physician, delivered a blatant misdiagnosis last week in blaming "right wing" jurists for a controversial June Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain.
Expressing outrage over that decision, which stretched government's reach in "taking" private property to unprecedented lengths, Gov. Dean told the College Democrats of America convention in Washington: "The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is OK to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is."
Oops. The five justices who comprised the majority in that 5-4 ruling were John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter. The first three are clearly on the court's liberal side, and none of the five can be convincingly called conservative. Indeed, the high court's only three consistently "right wing" members, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, joined moderate Sandra Day O'Connor in voting for the losing, private-property side in the Kelo v. New London case.
By decrying a ruling rendered from the left, Dr. Dean undermined the Democrats' case against confirming judicial nominees from the right. He also prompted many observers on the right, left and in between to wonder again why his party hasn't replaced him.
"And every college student in that room believed him."
And that, indeed, is the sad part of this story.
too funny.
how about, physician, euthenize thyself! May God have mercy on me.
All the conservatives voted against Kelo, and all the liberals voted for it. Get with it Howie.
semi-South Carolina ping.;)
And that's exactly what he was counting on. But I hope that those kids are more savvy than that, even if they are misguided dems.
His base base (not a typo) won't know the difference.
If they actually knew what was going on in the world other than what their handlers told them, they wouldn't be his base.
ping,
I disagree.
I know some liberal elites, sorry to say.
Their arrogance overwhelms any intelligent common sense.
They must be in charge or they feel worthless.
That's why they are attracted to government jobs.
Dean is a half-wit masquerading as the "brains" of the Deomocrat Party.
The fact that no Democrat objects to his idiotic tirades shows clearly that top Democrats have no more "brains" than he....and worst of all...they have no courage.
The last two Democrat presidents were touted as very intelligent.....but their actions showed differently.
But in the courage department, they both were running on empty!!
Now the truth gets out to those who care about the issue. The folks who are not paying attemntion, but just happened to hear what Dean said, might remain as ignorant as ever. They are like the people that Sean Hannity interviews on the streets of New York.
Howie Dean is the perfect example of that. The Dems haven't replaced him because he perfectly represents them.
What causes fanaticism and why it is dangerous.The fanatic has an elitist view of himself. He holds a firm belief that he is "special" and has something that others, not like him, do not and that this unique "something" imparts an unquestionable and unassailable power to himself. Because of this basic self-view any disagreement with the elitist or any resistance to his actions causes anger. This "supreme" view of himself is an excuse for justifying his anger and thus justifying any act from deception to murder against those who disagree or refuse to comply with him. He is comfortable with hatred, revenge, lying or any gross deception in defense of his "superior" position and will act out against those who do resist or refuse to validate his view.
It is impossible to reason or negotiate with someone who holds the POV that they are morally and/or ethically superior by virtue of the belief that they are inherently so. Everything you do to accomodate his "concerns" (demands), short of complete capitulation, will be discounted due to your "inherent" inferiority. Any resistance to him, anything other than complete submission, becomes self-evident proof of his superiority. The elitist's POV presupposes the rationale of rightness and righteousness as inherent to himself by virtue of his personal belief not as a measure of the quality of his actions or the resulting consequences. His belief that he is superior may hang on an ideology or philosophy but regardless of whether the doctrine supports his view or not he is simply never wrong about himself. Of course the opposite is true for non-elites in the fanatic's mindset. You can never be right if you're not one of the "righteous" simply because you are not. More precisely; you are not "him."
It should be obvious why a fanatic is dangerous. Any and all negative and evil acts can be justified on the basis of any disassociation with his self-view and the "inherent authority" he carries with that. The intent and motivations of an outsider are irrelevant no matter how positive. The results of an outsider's actions are irrelevant no matter how accomodating or constructive. The non-elites are always wrong because they don't hold or submit to the fanatic's view.
The world is full of fanatics of every kind and they can base their elitist self-view on any pretext. Some belong to large groups of "like-minded" fanatics and some are individuals who cling to the delusion that they alone are "special."
In today's world the United States in particular, and western civilization in general, is under a concerted assault from two separate groups of fanatic elitists. Fundamentalist Muslims and leftists. The Islamo-nazis and the Marxists. Both leftists and Islamo-fascists hold a firm belief that they have something that rednecks and infidels don't have that carries a special authority with it. For leftists it is "intellect" and "social sophistication" and for Islamo-nazis it's a "call from Allah," a "holy annointing."
Both groups are manifestations of a mass psychological disorder resulting in fanatic elitism. Both are extremely unstable and are unfounded upon and unaffected by reasoned logic. Convinced of their own "inherent" superiority they will both press their respective agendas as far as they can without regard for the consequences to themselves or to others. In both cases the blame for all of their actions will "logically" fall on the shoulders of others, the "outsiders." Negative consequences of their actions simply become another tool for self-vindication.
The fanatic elitist mindset is the same as the mindset of the rabid dog. Nothing else exists for them except for their personal perception of themselves. Nothing else can; their POV is, by design, unaffectable by outside influence. Change can only occur from within and this means a change in the "prime directive." Change requires the abdication of their most basic point of reference, their self-view, the view that they are unique in a superior, inherent and authoritarian way. This is a view that reasonable people must either completely reject or ultimately submit to. Those are the only choices the fanatic will leave to "the others."
TigersEye - 7/27/05
Dean wasn't just "whining" - he was knowingly LYING!!
Very sad. They also believe Ward Churchill and that truly ignorant Cornell (Whatever) at Princeton. Why is higher education such a golden calf in our society when it takes years to undo the damage done there?
oh deanie baby....yak on and on and on....talk about anything and everything....show the American People what your all about, show the terrorists how 'smart' you are...keep talkin deanie baby....your doing just fine......
(sitting on ground, LMAO at deanie baby)
Good post.
Conservatives at fault for the eminent domain decision? Yee-argggh! That's got to be the brassiest falsehood Chairman Hao has yet uttered.
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