Hate is the Force that Gives the Left Meaning

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Daniel Greenfield:

The American left has never had it this good. It has never had two terms of an unabashed and uncompromising leftist in the White House dedicated to its agenda functioning as a dictator without the military uniform, making and unmaking laws at a whim, siccing the IRS and Federal prosecutors on political enemies and transforming the country at a breathtaking pace.

Obama is what generations of the left have dreamed of and worked toward. This is the flicker of hopethey kept alive after JFK’s assassination, the Nixon years, Carter’s collapse and the long stretch of Reaganomics. This is what Bill Clinton robbed them of prematurely by gauging his actions against the polls instead of blasting full steam ahead regardless of what the public wanted.

The left finally has its Un-American tyranny. So why is it so angry?

Watch MSNBC or browse any left-wing site and you see a level of anger that would make you think that Al Gore had just conceded or Nixon had just won reelection. There’s more anger in the privileged circles of the left than in the political rearguard of the Tea Party.

That anger trickles from the top down. Obama’s interview with Bill O’Reilly was yet another opportunity for the most powerful man in the country to blame a vast right wing conspiracy. A day doesn’t pass without another email from Obama, his wife, Sandra Fluke or Joe Biden warning that without another five or ten dollar contribution, the “right” will take over America.

The left has unchallenged control over the government, academia and the entertainment industry and yet it talks as if the country is 5 seconds away from Sarah Palin marching into Washington D.C. at the head of an army of Duck Dynasty fans to outlaw abortion.

The apocalyptic political paranoia and the uncontrolled outbursts of rage haven’t changed much since 2003. Ten years later, the ideologues in power still act as if George W. Bush is serving out his fourth term. Every day on MSNBC, a stew of conspiracy theories about oil companies, Israel, the Koch Brothers, Wal-Mart and Karl Rove leaves a slimy trail across the television screen.

On the internet, manufactured outrage has become the only progressive stock in trade. Did Jerry Seinfeld say that he values humor over racial quotas? He’s a racist. Did an ESPN magazine out a compulsive liar who also happened to be pretending to be a woman? Lock him up. Did Mike Huckabee say something that could be misinterpreted with enough ellipses and out of context “Twitterized” quotes? Before you know it, he’s a sexist pig.

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The left had all their stars aligned and the ability to do whatever they wanted. Then they did it. Then, there was abject, utter failure. I think this pisses them off.

The ongoing search for a villain, someone to hate and rail against, is necessary to give people something other than the obvious failures to focus on. So, it is no small wonder why there are so many hateful attacks on conservatives; there is so much to distract from.

@Bill Burris: That was exactly what I was going to say!
The number of useful idiots who are being ”mugged by reality,” need to have someone other than their idols on the Left to blame.’
It’s really sad to see so many who were all for ObamaCare but learn it fails them personally stay loyal to their leftist leaders anyway.
Hate works.
It deflects the blame.

@Bill Burris:

While hate may be the driving force behind the left, it is not the policy. The policy is to play on human misery, and to insist that although that misery may be self imposed, no one should be miserable. There is no greater example of this than the left’s goal of socialized medicine. And don’t kid yourself, the left understands that when you reduce the misery of one person, it will be at the cost of making another person miserable. Example:

the left has constantly ranted on the misery of those who are uninsured, not taking into count why someone may be uninsured (a recent report said that 40% of Los Angeles County’s uninsured are illegal aliens). The cause doesn’t matter. Nor does it matter that by making health care a “right”, they will make others miserable when their services and labor are stolen by the IRS to pay for those miserables that the left favors the most. If the uninsured are less miserable when they are given free health care, are the providers who are expected to provide those services at less than cost, and the productive citizen who will have the result of their labor taken from them to provide the monetary requirement for those services, more miserable?

As with everything involving the left, there are winners and losers. The winners being the low information voter who will help them maintain their positions of power, the losers will be those who have been diligent and responsible for themselves, not becoming a burden on society.

Apply my theory to any thing the left considers a “right”; food, housing, cell phones, cable TV, medical care, et al. The end (making some less miserable) justifies the means (making some more miserable).