Posted on 05/18/2012 7:42:30 PM PDT by Innovative
When President Obama's re-election campaign put up its "Life of Julia" feature, the mockery from the right came thick and fast, focusing on Julia's creepy faceless anonymity—literally, the way she is drawn, she has no face—and on the apparent absence in her life of family, friends, a mentor, a spouse, or anyone or anything to compete with the beneficence of the federal government.
Beyond the mockery, though, there is a sense that "Julia" reveals some very important things about the worldview of the left. Here's one point I haven't seen made elsewhere: the fact that Julia is apparently in the middle class.
Consider the significance of this. If Julia is in the middle class, what does she need government help for? It used to be that the welfare state was justified as necessary to help the poor. Thirty years of Great Society programs eventually created some skepticism about the actual impact of this government "help." So apparently the left has shifted ground. The welfare state is now here to serve the middle class. It's here as a normal part of everyone's life, even the lives of those who are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.
But the most profound response to the life of Julia is stated in the Kansas City Star by Thomas McClanahan, who describes Julia's existence as a "life without aspiration":
She claims no real accomplishments. Throughout, she remains passive. She stays within the channel laid down for her by the government. I wondered if they left out the story of her lobotomy.
"The Life of Julia" reveals much about its originators and the man on whose behalf it was created. Here we see the sterile vision of a certain kind of hard-left liberal, who apparently views the American citizen as a submissive, isolated entity.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“Under Romney: He may not have the balls to undo the Obama era, but at least he won’t make it worse.”
The likes of McCain have taught me to never underestimate the abilities of a particularly determined idiot.
Julia is a compost of Obambam’s imagination.
"Do it to Julia!"
“Here we see the sterile vision of a certain kind of hard-left liberal, who apparently views the American citizen as a submissive, isolated entity.”
If they can keep us isolated, if they can stop us from coming together, then it’s endless socialism.
Ah! I missed that connection!
Good read!............. but they don’t want me on the microphone questioning some of their assumptions...........*S*
Awesome image. The Julias of Obama’s America will be all broke-a$$ whores.
“Thirty years of Great Society programs’’? Hey Robert, try 47 years of “Great Society programs, ok? Johnson instituted the largest transfer of wealth from the private sector to the public in 1965.
Someone posted a cartoon somewhere in FR on this subject. A couple is sitting on a couch, a young woman is sitting between them, and she’s asking for along list of free stuff, starting with free contraception and free college loans and free mortgage on a house and on and on... and the woman (of the couple) asks: who are you?
Anybody have a link to that cartoon?
I want that cartoon.
Thanks.
Thank you very much. I’m going to pass this around my leftist NYC office.
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