To some, this thought is unthinkable. Obama simply has everything going for him, and Americans can't be THAT stupid right?
If Obama is rejected by voters, liberal activists will face a difficult moment. Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, sure. There was something wrong with them. A failure to connect. A remoteness. A coldness felt in some feathers of the left wing. Bill Clinton was an electoral success, but something about him didn’t sit right. The drama. The southerness. The welfare reform. The zaftig valley girl. Activists can understand why voters might have punished Hillary for the sins of Bill.
But Obama? He is perfect.
A rejection of Obama can only mean one of two things: a rejection of the 1960s formulation of liberalism (the current formulation, alas) or that America is deeply racist. Too many of them will go for the second hypotheses.
Too many think that elections turn on identities, not ideas.
If Obama loses–and it is still a big ‘if’–too many liberals will fail to heed the message that voters have been sending them since 1981. Seventy percent of the country is tired of 1960s liberalism. Indeed many find the hippie vision frightening: A country too ashamed of itself to fight its enemies, too unsure of itself to praise its own history,govern its children or corral its criminals,and too resentful of the rich to allow the economy to make more of them.
That's exactly why Democrats continually lose in many states. They fail at basic problem solving such as the ones mentioned above, and when you tell someone they are stupid for believing a set of values, they'll reject you. If you bad mouth their home, they'll reject you. If you coddle criminals, when they want justice, they'll reject you. If you resent the wealthy, even if they came up from nothing to build themselves a financial empire, they'll reject you.
And you'll have no one to blame but yourselves.
Travis
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