another strange incident, this time with Obama himself telling the story, where he is cast as bravely imparting a truth to a hostile audience. This time the story is Obama courageously telling a Detroit audience of auto makers that they would have to make more fuel efficient cars. They applauded and at the end of the speech gave him a standing ovation.
Why make up or imagine a story like that. Wouldn't it be more conformable to his vanity to remember the truth? After all, getting Detroit auto executives to find something commendable in a proposal that is against their immediate interests is an achievement. Why not play that up?
What is going on with the left is some sort of need to establish for themselves an identity as non-conformists, underdogs bravely telling the truth to a recalcitrant world. If the world agrees with you then you haven't been progressive enough. There is a sort of need to be persecuted, else you are not being truthful enough.
They must see themselves as the keepers of a high and enlightened truth that the masses cannot grasp on their own, that they are afraid to face. Winning an argument, or worse yet, not encountering an argument at all, calls into question their moral superiority.
It is a bit like their attitude toward race. They must bring up again and again how they are able to look past race and prejudice, so much so that they can't stop bring ing up race and prejudice and seeing it when it isn't there. For if it isn't there then what are they? It is the inverse of the white poor of the old South who needed blacks around and for them to stay poor so they themselves would have someone to be better than. If you are not more evolved than a Detroit auto executive that who are you more evolved than?
Why make up or imagine a story like that. Wouldn't it be more conformable to his vanity to remember the truth? After all, getting Detroit auto executives to find something commendable in a proposal that is against their immediate interests is an achievement. Why not play that up?
What is going on with the left is some sort of need to establish for themselves an identity as non-conformists, underdogs bravely telling the truth to a recalcitrant world. If the world agrees with you then you haven't been progressive enough. There is a sort of need to be persecuted, else you are not being truthful enough.
They must see themselves as the keepers of a high and enlightened truth that the masses cannot grasp on their own, that they are afraid to face. Winning an argument, or worse yet, not encountering an argument at all, calls into question their moral superiority.
It is a bit like their attitude toward race. They must bring up again and again how they are able to look past race and prejudice, so much so that they can't stop bring ing up race and prejudice and seeing it when it isn't there. For if it isn't there then what are they? It is the inverse of the white poor of the old South who needed blacks around and for them to stay poor so they themselves would have someone to be better than. If you are not more evolved than a Detroit auto executive that who are you more evolved than?
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