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The Odor of Truth Is Wafting Like A Freshly Brewed Pot of Coffee…

February 19, 2010 by Blackiswhite, Imperial Consigliere

…and our self-appointed betters need figure out that we’re on to them before things get ugly.

It is bad enough to have the proles reject the specific policy proposals of the good and the wise. But what may infuriate those liberals who have been castigating the idiocy of the angry mob even more is as follows. Their program is premised on believing a select group of superior people should be empowered to organize everyone else’s affairs. The Tea Party proles who reject the interference, reject also the premise that the Obama administration and its progressive supporters constitute a superior class: America’s would-be overseers really are no better than anyone else. For those who profess to care about equality, this must be terribly hard to hear.

Go read the whole thing. Nice to know that some in the legacy media are starting to get it.

H/t to Car in at H2

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on February 19, 2010 at 8:31 pm | Reply Tex Taylor

BIC,

Their program is premised on believing a select group of superior people should be empowered to organize everyone else’s affairs.

Pretty much gets to the heart of the matter. Great find.

I would add invariably the “superior people” almost always have two additional fatal flaws:

(1) A humanist perception that the problem is always out there…

(2) A innate belief of themselves as being qualified as the measure of all things.
- on February 19, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Reply Blackiswhite, Imperial Consigliere
  
  You can find out all you need to know about the people around you by saying this out loud:
  
  “What’s wrong with this phrase: “We are the ones we’re waiting for!”?”
  
  Or, like some people I know, you could just use it for target identification. That works, too.
on February 28, 2010 at 1:44 am | Reply Rutherford

Seems to me this misses the point of representative government where we elect people to make decisions on our behalf and if they do a bad job of it, we elect someone to replace them. There is an implicit acceptance that these people might have facts unavailable to us in their decision process …. for example a decision to go to war.

The average American did not vote to go to Iraq, We trusted our government to make that decision.

I find charges of elitism tend to get thrown around only when someone smarter than you actually is in charge. LOL
- on February 28, 2010 at 2:18 am | Reply Blackiswhite, Imperial Consigliere
  
  I find charges of elitism tend to get thrown around only when someone smarter than you actually is in charge. LOL
  
  There hasn’t been someone “smarter than me in charge” since John Quincy Adams sat in the Oval Office.
  
  Seems to me this misses the point of representative government where we elect people to make decisions on our behalf and if they do a bad job of it, we elect someone to replace them.
  
  No. We elect people to represent our interests, not to make decisions on our behalf…and even they know it. That’s why they rely so deeply on those windvanes we call polls. If they were there simply to make decisions on our behalf, they wouldn’t care.
  
  The average American did not vote to go to Iraq, We trusted our government to make that decision.
  
  I saved this for last, because it reflects a special degree of ignorance.
  
  Once again, you try to use a power specifically granted to Congress as cover for the usurpation of one that was not. Once again, I refer to that document that you don’t like to read, The Constitution.
  
  Article I, Section 8:
  The Congress shall have Power To…
  To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
  - on March 1, 2010 at 4:24 am Rutherford
    
    Well over at my place I accused you of arrogance on religious grounds but you’ve put the cherry on the sundae with the JQ Adams comment. I’m sure somewhere up there, JQ is flattered that you consider him smarter than you. 🙂
    
    I think you’re splitting hairs. Making a decision on our behalf and representing our interests are hopefully one and the same. Why would we allow anyone to make a decision on our behalf that did not represent our interests? And yes, polls may point the way and elections, as I stated further, deliver the reward/punishment for not representing our interests.
    
    You do love our Constitution and I can’t blame you. No where in what you quoted does it say that this power reserved for Congress should be exercised contrary to the will of the people. Declaration of war is like any other act of Congress, in that it is the will of representatives of the people. Sadly, in the case of Iraq, no formal declaration of war was made. How could it have been? Iraq did nothing to us to prompt our attack.
on February 28, 2010 at 5:22 pm | Reply geoff

The average American did not vote to go to Iraq…

…only the above-average ones did.
on March 1, 2010 at 7:25 am | Reply geoff

Iraq did nothing to us to prompt our attack.

They didn’t have to. The grounds for invading Iraq were clearly laid out in the 2003 SotU, and they didn’t include Iraq “doing something to us.”

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