Thursday, November 3, 2011

Liberal schizophrenia

Jean Quan, Democratic mayor of Oakland, first called out the police to clear away a mob of OWS protesters, but now is offering public employees a day off to support them.

Liberals still don’t seem to have figured out that they are the establishment (I don’t know if it will be any comfort to them, but the protesters don’t seem to be able to figure that out, either). Being a liberal establishmentarian poses a very troublesome dilemma. On the one hand, you’ve finally got the power you always wanted; on the other, your core values are a mish-mash of poorly-digested leftist dogma, centered largely on the concept of victimhood. How can you lash out at the unwashed when you’ve always prided yourself on being their champion? How do you come to terms with the fact that the “oppressed” include a high proportion of self-destructive losers who would fail to prosper under any kind of economic system? How is all of this going to play out on MSNBC?

You made your sleeping bag, Jean. Lie in it.

6 comments:

JeffS said...

One correction: lefties have no core values, only double standards, which they are now employing against themselves and their own.

Instead of against anyone who disagrees with them. A minor relief, but a welcome one.

And amusing, to boot!

bingbing said...

Heard about the utopian working conditions inside the ACORN/NYCC offices?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/03/acorn-officials-scramble-firing-workers-and-shredding-documents-after-exposed/

bruce said...

Actually JeffS, I've noticed they do have one core 'value' - 'I'm smarter than you all'.

They imagine themselves qualified to run everything better than before, and guide inferiors to higher realms.

Dread the day they build bridges and airplanes.

JeffS said...

Arrogance is their soul, isn't it, Bruce?

RebeccaH said...

I love it when parasites begin to eat each other.

Anonymous said...

Since the mayor seems disinclined to uphold the laws for which she was elected, perhaps the...oops, forgot that we now have Governor "Moonbeam" in charge in California, so the National Guard doesn't have to worry about deploying to Oakland.

Where has all the notion of "peaceful protest" gone? Long time passing.

Deborah Leigh