Who Do They Think They Are?

Wizbang ^ | 11/22/09 | Jay Tea

[BCrago66]

There's a trend emerging in American politics. I don't think it's a new one, but it's growth is disturbing to me. And it's the amazing hostility to the common people.

With the explosion of the internet, Andy Warhol's "15 minutes" theory seems to have developed a variant: under the right circumstances, anyone can become a superstar overnight, over the most trivial of reasons -- and fall just as quickly. Even in politics.

But in politics, there is a growing trend to take that nobody, that average person, and treat them just like we do hardened political professionals -- and attempt to destroy them in the process.

[BCrago66]

To preempt one criticism, the author is not saying that Joe the Plumber, Miss Prejean and Sarah Palin are similar in terms of ability. The commonality is in the elitist response to them among the power precincts of own culture.

[SpaceBar]

It's more than hostility, it's supreme arrogance and downright lawlessness. Where do you go when the "lawmakers" are a bunch of filthy crooks themselves?

[Jacquerie]

Where do you go when the "lawmakers" are a bunch of filthy crooks themselves?

Good question. We may find the answer at this forum when some Freepers are about to be hauled off to prison for not paying for free health care.

[PGalt]

It's more than hostility, it's supreme arrogance and downright lawlessness. Where do you go when the "lawmakers" are a bunch of filthy crooks themselves?

You use the soapbox (thanks for posting...so true), then go to the ballotbox against the lying, unaccountable, unconstitutional "filthy crooks". After that there's always, "When, in the course of human events,..."

[PGalt]

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. - The Results of Legal Plunder; "The Law"; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850