In the last month, we have seen president Obama and his campaign start a frontal assault on free market capitalism. Sure, they say they are not on the attack, but then they tell us over and over how Romney's record at Bain Capital is a big issue. Obama tells us how Romney was concerned with "profits" not people as if this is a bad thing. We hear from the campaign that private business entities are responsible if efforts to save a failing company with a major infusion of new capital do not work. That's right, Romney and Bain put in tens of millions of new dollars in investment into a failing steel company and the is a really bad thing in the world view of the Obama campaign. It is fine if Obama does the same thing with our money and fails (like Solyndra and numerous "green" energy enterprises), but for Bain to use its own capital and succeed only 80% of the time shows the inhumanity of Romney. He is a vulture when a company fails two years after he leaves Bain, but Obama is a hero when he puts hundreds of thousands in the auto industry out of work after pumping in $70 billion that he borrowed from China.
Any sane American understands that what Obama is attacking is the way that the US economy has functioned and grown for the last 200 years. Private enterprise is akin to an epithet in Obamaland. Obama can think of no words more vile than "banker", "Wall Street", "capitalist" and that extraordinarily terrible one, "private equity". Oh, unless, of course, those words apply to someone who is making large contributions to the Obama campaign. Then they are national heroes like Buffett etc.
Because Obama is taking on the free enterprise system, even Democrats are starting to get nauseated by his tactics. We all know what happened with Cory Booker; he spoke his mind and then had to recant on a video that looked like one of those creepy messages from hostages held by the Taliban. Other Democrats with guts and smarts also have been speaking out. Ed Rendell, a former chair of the DNC, not to mention two term governor of Pennsylvania has made clear his own opposition to Obama's tactics. Now, Artur Davis, formerly a congressman from Alabama has announced that he is switching parties as a result of Obama's campaign against the free market. Davis was the first black to be elected from Alabama in a district where the majority was not African American. He lost in a race for higher office two years ago, but he remains active in politics. But no longer as a Democrat.
On the same day, a member of the Democrat State Committee in Pennsylvania also switched parties. This woman switched because, she said, her Catholic faith was under attack by the Democrats, and by Obama in particular.
What is actually happening is that folks around the country are hearing the message that Obama is pumping out to them. It is the standard message for exciting the crowd inside the liberal bubble that surrounds Washington and the media. Bashing capitalism is popular with the Hollywood elites who have gotten rich as a result of that system. Denigrating Catholicism and every other religion is a big hit for the secularists who populate the Washington liberal think tanks. The crowd in the bubble is so insulated from real Americans that they have no idea how poorly their ideas actually play when put before the people. Inside the bubble, the rest of the country really are those "bitter clingers" that Obama spoke about in 2008. These folks are foolishly clinging to their Bibles and their guns and their fears of those who are different. This world view just does not change. Inside the bubble, the crowd just knows that it better than the rest of America. They just know that they are right in all things.
In November, this crowd is in for a rude awakening. Sure, they will blame racism for their coming electoral apolcalypse. We will all get to hear for months about how America really is a racist country that just could not re-elect a black president. They will never be able to explain how we elected Obama in the first place but then became too racist to re-elect him, but they will say it nonetheless. Of course, by that time, it will no longer matter. The real America will be saved. The liberals and their allies will be out of power.
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