Now that the MSM has done its best to ignore the Amy Bishop Obama obsession and is going all out to pin the right-wing-nut-job tail on Joseph Stack, it would seem that leftist-radical myopia is once again controlling the establishment media narrative.
It is, after all, difficult to see clearly when your legs are tingling and your passions are in willing-thrall mode.
So, here’s the pertinent question, the question our drowning Obama groupies in the MSM do not dare to ask: Is disillusionment with Obama causing people to snap and commit acts of violence?
It’s a good question, born of common sense.
If there was a single characteristic that defined the Obama campaign followers in 2008, it was an adolescent fawning the likes this country has never seen. There were the creepy fainting women in teenybopper crush mode wherever Obama went. There were the so-called intelligentsia speaking of a man who, to them, seemed more like a god, a savior, an uber-competent of downright immortal stature, purely obsequious observations based on Obama’s postage-stamp-sized resume, his fondness for arugula and GQ looks.
And, who can forget the woman at an Obama rally who prattled on about how when he was elected she wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage:
It’s not hard to see that a great many individuals actually believed all that nonsense the media peddled about Obama as a larger-than-life, different kind of politician, who could make the seas recede and sick people well again. It was the kind of story only idealistic adolescents and mentally deranged people could believe.
Yet, apparently, many did believe it all. Many, evidently, believed the whole rotten fairytale spun around this mere mortal. And let’s face it. Barack Obama had absolutely no accomplishments to his name other than a couple of Ivy League degrees (degrees, but not a transcript or a paper or a shred of research), a bunch of radical political connections from the most corrupt city machine in American history and a childhood narrative of pure political gold in a country still guilt-ridden over the racist actions of their ancestors.
Yet, the establishment media drooled, talked of the New Testament walking among us and used the clout of their elite positions to lead the American people down the primrose path to an administration so in over its head that it’s virtually impossible to keep up with every brewing crisis. The establishment media literally took it upon themselves to sell Barack Obama as if the presidency were nothing more consequential than a leading role in a Hollywood movie.
If Barack Obama were actually a product, the establishment media would have a fraudulent-advertising class action suit on its hands that would make tobacco-company settlements look like chump change.
Instead, Barack Obama is president and the people who went blindly into la-la land along with him on the word of his sycophantic media elites, now have awoken from the hyped hysteria. Their adolescent, blind love the night before has turned into the worst morning after in, well perhaps, ever.
What’s the surest thing to follow adolescent, blind love?
Disillusionment. Obama followers, who genuinely believed what the media told them, now are experiencing massive disillusionment. Where’s all that hope and change from the god who would be president?
The law is still the law; nothing there changed. The repo man can still take your house and your car and your furniture if you don’t pay as you said you would. Did the seas recede? Well, the deceived people are finding out that “climate change” was a lie, too — contrived by greedy politicians, fraudulent scientists and, once again, media elites. Did everyone get their jobs back? Not even close. More lost their jobs. Did the world start loving America? Not even close there, either. The world is more volatile and enemies are more empowered. The threats just keep coming no matter how many bows and suck-up speeches Barack Obama gives.
What we have here in America is a whole lot of people finding out the hard way that Barack Obama’s being president did not change anything for the better in their individual lives. They are waking up to the reality that all the moonlight and roses have turned to still-unpaid bills, still-unrealized personal dreams and still-difficult real life.
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen two individuals snap over personal difficulties and turn to extreme, murderous violence as an antidote for their own misery.
Professor Amy Bishop, an Obama-obsessed woman with a troubled past, apparently believed the media-spun narrative.
Did Dr. Bishop believe that if Barack Obama were elected president, then she would get her long-cherished dream of tenure? That’s the question I would be asking if I were her lawyer. Was she disillusioned to the point of insanity?
Did Dr. Bishop fall for the media-spun fairy tale to the extent that she was willing to kill those who would not give her the “change” she fully expected? As any shrink would testify, it is impossible to say what triggering events cause disillusioned people to snap, much less at whom their rage will be directed. But it seems highly plausible, considering the wildly exaggerated expectations placed in Barack Obama, that Dr. Bishop fully expected her entire life to turn out like the fairy tale she was witnessing on TV. If Barack Obama, with next-to-nothing on his resume, could be elected president, then why shouldn’t she – Harvard grad, too, after all – be given tenure.
Then, we have Joseph Stack, the man who set his home ablaze, stole an airplane and flew it intentionally into a building in Austin, Tex., which housed an IRS office. The establishment media, in a desperate attempt to avoid self-implication, is already spinning Mr. Stack as an anti-government right-winger. Well, good luck with that.
Mr. Stack left behind a 3,000-word manifesto, really a long suicide note, detailing his anger at injustice under the big foot of corporate America and her handmaid, Big Government. Mr. Stack took great pains to enumerate the villains in his sad, persecuted worldview.
Topping the list, in Mr. Stack’s mind, was the Catholic Church and the unfairness of her tax-exempt status. According to Mr. Stack’s manifesto, for the church to grow rich and powerful, while he – the little man struggling so – remained unable to get ahead was an inequity too great to bear.
Then, Mr. Stack moved on to other power-brokers, big business, corrupt unions and big government. The whole capitalist deck was stacked inexorably against him. This was the message of the entire manifesto left behind.
But this skewed whole-system-is-against-me belief is completely contrary to the beliefs most conservatives hold dear. Many conservatives may despise the way government wastes their hard-earned money, but they are prone to work to change the laws they do not like and vote out the politicians when they prove corrupt. Conservatives, by and large, pay their taxes and are more focused on the next life than this one.
This is borne out by social science research and has been well-documented. Peter Schweizer, in his book, Makers and Takers, details some of the most pertinent research delineating the stark differences between political conservatives and liberals in America.
Unfortunately for the establishment media, Mr. Stack far more easily fits the liberal profile than he does a conservative one.
The single most blaring thread in Joseph Stack’s suicidal screed was resentment and envy. Resentment at those with “unfair” tax exemptions, resentment against a government which did not force corporations to pay contracted engineers more money and resentment against a tax code that even accountants could not understand. Side by side the resentment, stood his envy for others’ financial success and accumulated wealth.
Which perfectly fits the liberal profile. According to Makers and Takers (page 102):
…as one might expect, this (the left’s) focus on economic equality – particularly when it comes to other people’s money – leads to the rise of the green-eyed monster: envy. Research shows that those on the political left are more resentful and envious than others. One study found that liberals were two and half times more likely to say they were resentful of others’ success. When asked to respond to the statement, “I have been jealous of others’ good luck,” liberals were 50 percent more likely to agree than conservatives.
Liberal politicians and liberal media elites constantly harp on economic inequity, fanning the flames of resentment and envy that already exist among their liberal cohorts in the citizenry.
And, as one might expect, research bears out that it is liberals, not conservatives, who are obsessed with money and material-world inequality.
According to Schweizer’s documented research, liberals are prone to believe that political and legal equality spring from economic equality. Liberals are also very inclined to reject individual responsibility in favor of the notion that wealth is obtained by luck of the draw, which leaves them much more disposed to embrace the material gospel of envy and resentment.
Ending his resentful j’accuse, Mr. Joseph Stack took pains to draw the distinction between two economic systems, communism and capitalism:
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Now, in spite of the distracting spin being employed by the mainstream media, it does not take a genius to see which of these creeds Mr. Stack held in higher favor. For one thing, he placed the communist dogma on top. And, if one reads the entire manifesto, one would have to be virtually blind not to see envy and resentment written all over Mr. Stack’s anger at greedy churches, greedy corporations and greedy big government.
So far, we have seen two murderous episodes of dire disillusionment, perpetrated by folks not altogether rational. But for the MSM to fail to see their own culpability in vastly overstating the abilities of the man they made president, and the possible ramifications of that lie in the lives of real people, seems beyond the bounds of decency.
In fact, for the MSM to feign surprise and attempt to slander conservatives as the instigators of these violent acts, seems downright sociopathic. People with well-formed consciences simply could not do such a thing.