Saturday, November 27, 2010

Liberals Resort to Conspiracy Theories to Explain Obama's Problems

It can not possibly be that Obama's liberal policies do not work in the US, just as they do not work anywhere in the worlds, the Republicans are somehow sabotaging the country to bring him down. That must mean the American people who just swept the Democrats aside in the midterms are similarly trying to sabotage themselves to make sure Obama does not get reelected. Beyond being incredibly insulting ... paranoid much?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/25/AR2010112502553.html

"But there is an alternative narrative, developed by those who can't shake their reverence for Obama. If a president of this quality and insight has failed, it must be because his opponents are uniquely evil, coordinated and effective. The problem is not Obama but the ruthless conspiracy against him.
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So what is the proof of this charge? It seems to have something to do with Republicans criticizing quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve. And opposing federal spending. And, according to Benen, creating "massive economic uncertainty by vowing to gut the national health care system."

One is tempted to respond that it is $1 trillion in new debt, the prospect of higher taxes and a complicated, disruptive health-reform law that have created "massive economic uncertainty." For the purposes of this argument, however, it is sufficient to say that all these economic policy debates have two sides.

Yet this is precisely what the sabotage theorists must deny. They must assert that the case for liberal policies is so self-evident that all opposition is malevolent. But given the recent record of liberal economics, policies that seem self-evident to them now seem questionable to many. Objective conditions call for alternatives. And Republicans are advocating the conservative alternatives - monetary restraint, lower spending, lower taxes - they have embraced for 30 years.
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