If you lined up a hundred folks who voted in 2012 for President Obama....I’d take a guess that ninety-five of them would still come around to vote again for him. It’s a crowd with some false sense of reality. Waiting for something to occur, but never sure what it might be.
In the immortal words of Chuck Schumer:
"We're United. You're Not."
They wouldn’t vote for him again because of their sense of reality. They’d vote for him again for the very reason Horowitz lays out in the original post - are you really going to admit to yourself its a lie?
I have a family of very well educated cousins, all above the age of 50 right now.
All of them doubled down on Obama, and one went so far as to campaign for him the second time around.
They can see, smell, and taste the smoking hole he’s left behind for the party, the country, and for them personally. Their retort: ‘Consider the alternative - Romney’.
There’s an incredible piece in the WSJ today about the guy who dropped $79M this election on green liberal candidates. Tom Steyer’s Democrats is what I think its called.
It will take your breath away. The piece is about the recent Keystone XL vote, and how the ‘gentry liberals’ basically chose the greenies over the private sector unions yesterday, and how big a deal that was.
41 Democrats let go of a Senate seat to back climate change, which has been completely disproven and roundly exposed as nothing more than alchemy - the pursuit of junk science to bamboozle money from ignorant people. They tossed Landrieu over even though the trains are left as the alternative, given the oil is coming out of the ground no matter what.
Most of these ‘climate evangelists’ can’t even tell you the atomic weight of CO2, or where you are most likely to find it in any given volume if you were intent on finding it. (the floor - it’s heavier than air, so it settles to the ground, which is hilarious because they’ve spent all that money looking for it on the rooftops of buildings.)
I don’t want to pick on the seventh day Adventists, but the story of their origins applies here. The church was started by a man who prophesied that Jesus was coming on a date certain. They were all there ready to greet Him, and alas he didn’t come. He threw out a new date, and He still didn’t come.
The church survives to this day. Doesn’t matter that the guy was wrong. All that mattered was that once the belief was publically made, it becomes almost impossible to admit thereafter that you’d been duped.
How many of them do you think will have heard of Jonathan Gruber?