by Jarad Perry
The vitriolic tones, snickering quips, and general snobbery that have become a staple of the American political process are so often heard that it amounts to nothing more than white noise. However, with the recent election of Scott Brown to the Senate as well as the constant White House berating of Quixotic windmills manifest in the tea-partiers, radio-talk show hosts, and the general ‘vast right-wing conspiracy, the ante has been raised as the 2010 election season heats up as those on the left are becoming disheartened and disenchanted with their intellectual savior.
Yet, this was only natural as the act of governing (whether well or not it is effective) is far different from the act of campaigning to govern and the campaign of President Obama was a well funded, organized, and ran machine whose cogs have started to fall off the once smooth clockwork that was his image.
Beneath the polished veneer of candidate Obama is nothing more than a hollow ideological demagogue set upon contorting to his will the mechanism of growth. Of course, that ideology is not as simplistic as ‘socialism’ it is more an American reworking of European social democracy. The social democrat is a person who does not want to completely turn off the valve of the market but to control the flow so as to keep the people in scarcity and dependence.
But it only takes a mere look at the fortunes of Europe to see that the stalwarts of the left are coming under increased scrutiny by their once loyal charges.
Social democracy is a proposition of the farcical middle-way between socialism and capitalism, one that fails to understand that the basic mechanisms of the two are incompatible. Yet, far from discouraging the social democrat, the failures only empower the continued push for more control of the falsely accused market forces.
Such social democratic thinking manifests itself in America under the guise of ‘progressives’ and, as such, is often not fully grasped until the failed end results of policies lacking substance. Media shills cry out to those in power that the answer is not to buckle under the pressure of the electorate but to push through the foretold agenda no matter the political, societal, or economic costs.
So as the election season gets fully underway, the manner in which the campaigns are conducted may be a lesson in the failures of electoral demagoguery.
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