Southern Bread

*Caution, I’m about to go all ranty here.

I’ve realized in the last few months that the disconnect that we’ve been seeing for a long time now in the Republican/Conservative ranks is even greater in the Democrat/Liberal sphere. I know that sentence probably sounds meaningless at first blush, so let me flesh it out a bit. Everybody on the Republican side knows that Republican doesn’t equal conservative. And it definitely doesn’t equal religious. It’s just a fact that we live with. It’s as accepted as taxes and death. The disconnect between our leadership and the people who actually vote Republican is a chasm big enough to sail the Titanic through in most cases. We deal with this mostly by skewering our own leaders on a daily basis. Listen to Rush Limbaugh for a week. He spends as much time lambasting Congressional Republicans as he does bashing Liberals. It’s therapeutic I guess. It’s the way it should be. That’s how you hold your leaders accountable for making self-interested decisions. They have to lose elections sometimes. Call it cleansing.

It appears to be different on the Liberal side though. There is a wierd sort of pseudo-reverence placed upon the leadership of the Democrats by the grassroots. I was reading just today how Obama has his organizing machine out and about in Birmingham trying to sell his budget at the roots level. I can only assume one thing: these people don’t understand who politicians are and that they do not give a rat’s rear-end about us. If that sounds cynical, it’s not. It’s a fact. Does anyone think for one minute that Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama care one iota for anything other than their own political careers and personal enrichment? Come on people. I expect that kind of blind loyalty from Ralph Nader’s crew, but not from the broad base of people that voted for Obama in the last election. Where is the inherent skepticism of government and it’s motives? Where’s all this free thinking that we hear about from lefties. It’s time for you people to wise up to what’s really going on.

I am most stupified by how blindly the technorati, science establishment and religious left has bought into Obama. It’s like they’ve checked their brains at the door. I remember seeing a post on Slashdot a few years ago where some Democrat congressmen had come out against Net Neutrality. The comments on that post were one after another of amazement. Stuff like, “I can’t believe these Democrats are siding with big business” and stuff like that. I couldn’t help shaking my head. Of course they are going to side with big business on some issues. If he gave them money they would side with Bugs Bunny for crying out loud. Just look at Chris Dodd and how he inserted the exclusion into the stimulus bill to exempt the AIG bonuses. Turns out he was one of the top two recipents of campaign contributions from AIG. So much for Democrats being for the little guy.

And the free-speech technorati must be totally schizophrenic to think that Democrat leadership is a friend of free speech. You must have missed the little nugget that Waxman wants to look into regulating internet speech issues. How could you think that the people who brought us political correctness could want anything less than total control over all speech outlets? Wise up!

And that brings me to the scientific community. The so called titans of skepticism. You are skeptical of televangelists, but politicians get a free pass?! Come on. Even Christopher Hitchens said Obama was over-rated and the endorsement he gave was basically one of last resort, given a McCain alternative. He even said that there wasn’t much difference between the two candidates other than temperament. Think about that for a minute. Not much difference between McCain and Obama? He’s right. They would both sell their own soul for the presidency. As it becomes plainer and plainer that all we are going to get from Obama is a wrecked economy and a smothering nanny state, how long are you going to hang on to the dream? How long before you realize that when it comes down to votes vs. truth, all politicians across party lines are going to choose votes every time.

I’m perhaps mostly upset by the devotion of the religious community. When did we start voting for people just because they claimed to care about the poor? Doesn’t that claim require some proof? Well, it doesn’t show up with any of the current crop of Democrat leadership. Cap and Trade?! That is going to raise basic energy rates by huge percentages. How does it help the poor to raise their heating, cooling and gasoline bills by 40%? How does it help the poor to implement a national healthcare system that guarantees that they will be relegated to sub-par public clinics while the leaders like Obama enjoy private, high-dollar treatment? How does it help the poor for Obama and his Democrat buddies to be partying every Wednesday night eating Wagyu beef and Champagne on tax payer money? How does it help the poor to take away their vouchers so they can’t send their kids to private schools like the Obamas do? How does it help the poor to reduce the charitable tax deduction on contributions? Such blatant, utter hypocrisy! Wake up people. My God. Bring back Clinton and Daschle or something. Anything but these lying poachers.

I understand the draw of liberalism, even if I don’t agree with it. What I don’t understand is the blind faith in a politician. Politics deserves our deepest most severe skepticism on a minute by minute basis. Placing trust in the machine is suicide. Never forget what happens when you place blind faith in government.