Never heard of him before. Could use to never hear from him again. He's some poopy 20 percenter leftist called Michael Kazin -- reportedly a professor at Georgetown. Big whoop. But I couldn't help but notice his rather scathing indictment of American Independents in a new column that allegedly appears in the New Republic (I read it on CBSNews.com -- link at bottom). Methinks this assclown deserves the full Rager treatment, no?Those Damn Blasted Independents!!!
Far from blowing my stack after reading this fool calling Independents every name in the book (add to my list at the top: myopic and thoughtless), I accepted his column as a badge of honor and laughed at his obvious motivation: This leftist hates the fact that we Independents decide his election outcomes and he admits it! I love his hate! "Never Enough," as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, partisans on both sides hate Independents. It's just that they try not to show it, since they know we control elections and don't want to piss us off too much. As always, when a leftist (or a deranged right-winger, for that matter) shows his true colors through honest words (a very rare occurrence), I have to give that a fair amount of credit. And therefore some credit goes to Kazin on that front. But not on any other front -- read on...
A Leftist 20 Percenter Tutorial
Simmering just below the surface of Kazin's column is classic 20 percenter leftist thought (they like for it to be referred to as "liberalism" or "progressive," and therefore I say 20 percenter leftist): They know what's best for us, and the rest of the population is too stupid to figure it out.
Following that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, the leftist ultimately questions whether we really need all of those damn pesky American democratic institutions, elections, freedom and basic constitutional rights.
To wit: We get loony far leftist old hags like Nancy Pelosi (until very recently, second in the line of succession to the presidency) spouting lines like, "Elections shouldn't matter as much as they do." (That one from the past few weeks). And we get columns from the leftist likes of Kazin, who actually seems to suggest that maybe -- just maybe -- all of us dumb Independents shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Nope, he doesn't come right out and say that -- but it's there, again percolating just below the surface (like so many of the leftists' true intentions). Kazin (allegedly an historian), for example, cites back to the 1920s and some oddball anecdote about Walter Lippmann and John Dewey discussing the issue "about whether ordinary citizens could be trusted to make sound decisions about which policies to favor and which politicians could be trusted to carry them out."
Lippmann was a leftist "journalist," political commentator and (scary enough) multiple-time presidential adviser who once crowed that he had "no doctrinaire belief in free speech." (Nice dude, uh?) Kazin notes that Lippmann (in a viewpoint obviously embraced by Kazin) "thought the public was easily manipulated by clever propagandists and ideologues; a complex society required public-spirited experts to run the show."
Translation: Far leftist elites are the only ones smart enough to "run the show"; everyone else should just shut up, get out of the way, and take it (i.e., take whatever policies the leftists think are best for us and learn to love it).
Or, alternatively and at a bare minimum, the leftists would say that only partisans on the left and right should allowed to vote and make policy: Independents (those "ordinary citizens") are just too stupid to be granted such exorbitant rights. (Cheery folks, these leftists!)
This Ain't Your Granddaddy's Democrat Party
The disheartening reality is that anti-democratic far leftist thinkers like Kazins and Lippmans do "run the show" in the sense that people like them bankroll and control the democrat party. It's just not the same party it was four, three, even two decades ago. The last great American president in my estimation -- JFK -- would have no place in the democrat party of today.
And that's why I'm fairly confident I will never again vote for another democrat party candidate in my lifetime (not that I plan to vote for many republican politicians, either, mind you). In short, today's democrat party is just too scary (to use one of the good professor's favorite words). No joke.
That's why for this one and many Independents, the 2008 election and the two years that followed were like "getting hit with a sucker punch from somewhere in the back." So we "lit up their world like it was the Fourth of July" in early November 2010. That was cool! And we'll do it again, if need be. After all, we decide their elections. (And Kazin HATES that so!)
Sticks & Stones, "Professor"
Concerning the various insults that Kazin tosses our way: Granted, there are Independents who don't follow politics too closely and make last-minute decisions on whom to vote for (sorry to end a sentence on a preposition). But to label the entire group with broad-brush swaths such as being stupid and stand-for-nothing is stereotypical mindlessness. (Well, he is a leftist!) "Can't Truss It!"
Not to mention, I have little doubt there are plenty of people out there who consider themselves democrats or republicans who also pay scant attention to politics, but instead just show up on election day and mindlessly vote for their partisans. Hell, I come from a whole family of people like that. Yeah! We Independents are the stupid ones!
Independents a Small Minority!?!
Not sure where Prof. Leftist is getting that one. I guess never let facts get in the way of a good piece of propaganda. I just hope this guy's not out there Gettin' Stoned like Hinder, because the assertion that Independents are just some tiny little minority is flat-out false and provides prima facie evidence that someone just may be Puffin' the ol' Paca Lolo until at least 4:20 in the morning.
Specifically, I've seen very consistent polling data on this subject in recent years. Independents, as well as people who consider themselves neither "liberal" nor "conservative," make up roughly 40% of the American population. It's about the same for people calling themselves "conservative" (35-40%).
It's the leftists who are the tiny minority! Self-described "liberals" and "progressives" make up about 20 percent of the population! Hence the phrase that I coined in this space many months ago: Leftist 20 percenter (or 20 percenter leftist, if you please) -- you know, the ones who control the democrat party?
Rarely Boring, and Never "Disinterested"
Now, I realize this whole subject matter area might be a bit boring for some or for many. (Hey, I worked in some bikini ladies and rock music up above -- whatdaya want from me over here?). But when I see some snobbish, elitist, out-of-touch, leftist 20 percenter nobody propagandist of a beltway insider college professor (allegedly a professor) shitting all over my fellow Independents, I gotta say something. I roll that way.
Finally, getting back to my line at the top: I think you can accuse me of being many things, but I really don't think "disinterested" would be among them. (Not anymore, leastways). You just take that back, leftist -- Them's Fightin' Words!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/26/opinion/main20057430.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.13 (Note: I personally wouldn't waste your time reading this goof's drivel; yet, I felt compelled provide a link since it was the subject of this post).
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