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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is the Best President in My Lifetime. [View all]woo me with science
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and the out-of-the-blue adulation and superlatives are also imperative.
Yesterday we got news of perhaps the most chilling betrayal of our Constitution, our nation, and every single one of us that we have seen yet from this administration...and that is saying a lot. Our President has now claimed the right to murder any American, without need for evidence or due process. Of course DU erupted in horror. And of course the propaganda brigade had to get to work.
But look at what they are able to come up with in response.
These sorts of adulatory threads are remarkable not for the fawning line-up of concurring posts from the reliable few, but because they are so predictably empty of anything substantive. Always. Look down the posts. It's not like adoring FDR because of the New Deal, or Lincoln for holding the nation together. It's never based in any real substance at all. It can't be, because to talk about what this administration has actually *done* would blow a devastating hole into any claim to support the same values and principles as traditional Democrats.
Ask about the policies that justify this adoration, and you will get insults or anger, or perhaps the same few old standbys from years ago: Lily Ledbetter, opposition to DOMA, the (Heritage Foundation!) health insurance act. The defenders have absolutely nothing to even come *close* to counterbalancing the long, devastating. constantly expanding list of MAJOR right-wing, corporate, neocon, and police state policies that this administration has fought for and defended over the past four years. In all major policy areas....war, economics, education, energy and the environment, the drug wars, the police state....this administration has aggressively pursued policies that George Bush would be proud of.
And today was a biggie. So what can they do? Rally the troops. Make emotional bids for loyalty to Obama and to the Blue Team. There was also a thread today, out of the blue, to rally hatred for the Reds. It wasn't about any particular news item or recent event. It was simply a bid for the Two Minutes Hate. Because when a corporate-purchased/hijacked party must admit a betrayal of the people and the Constitution of the magnitude we saw today, it is imperative to the hijackers that our emotional loyalty to the Blue Team (and willingness to circle the wagons and defend *anything* it does) is fierce and reflexive and defensive enough to override our loyalty to the Constitution and the fundamental civil rights they are destroying before our eyes.