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In reply to the discussion: What too many Americans will never admit [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)People identify with the President as they do no other political figure, for the President embodies the nation, and to the degree a person draws emotional sustenance by feeling themselves a part of the nation, they necessarily see themselves reflected in the person of the President.
It seems on the evidence that a substantial portion of the white populace, particularly the rural white populace, cannot see themselves reflected in a black man, and particularly in a black man of clearly greater intellectual attainment than themselves. In their recoil from the necessity of doing so, if they are to continue drawing what emotional sustenance they do from identifying themselves with the nation the President embodies, they turned to a perfect embodiment of everything about themselves they knew to be opposite to Mr. Obama --- a moronic blowhard, a man without taste or manners, a coward and a confirmed liar, whose opinion of his own worth is elevated so far above the actual as to assume legendary proportions. Whose sole qualification for the office is that he is a white man in whom these creatures may see themselves not just reflected but magnified, the very worst of themselves made flesh, beneath a hairspray crown.
"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."