Why Does the Progressive Party Get Support?

Let me share a conversation from a book:

"People don't want to think.  The deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.  But by some sort of instinct they feel that they ought to and this makes them feel guilty.  So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.  Anyone who makes a virtue, a highly intellectual virtue, out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt."

"And you propose to pander to that?"

"That is the road to popularity."

I added the red & blue for redstate/bluestate clarity.  Here is how sloth, drug abuse, prostitution, unsupported birthing, and the whole entitlement group came to feel they were superior on a moral and intellectual base (ACORN, anyone?).  The people who bought into this bile were fed lines like "Hope™" and "Change™" and "Yes We Can!™". 


All meaningless, but don't they sound nice? 

Hope is good, right?  People need hope. Poets, politicians, and priests have said it for millenia.  Sure- BUT HOPE OF WHAT?  Do you hope you can get a job to support your family, OR do you hope some new government department will shovel money your way so you can make more babies and not pay for them?  Do you hope you can live better, or do you hope the government will pay for your insurance so you can be as self-abusive and self-destructive as you want because somebody else is paying for the consequences?  Hoping to be able to screw other people out of their earnings is a hope I hope you never achieve.

Change™...to WHAT?   Change™ from Bush era to the Chavez era?  The Gorbachev era?  The Stalin era?  Did the f-ing idiots who ate this slogan like Pavlov's dog everytime Obama rang the "Change™" bell ever, EVER really consider what the change was going INTO?  From the USA to the USSA.  From a freedom-loving country to a Socialist/Communist state.   Let's make sure the CHANGE™ is from you controlling your life, to the government doing it for you.  From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.  Steal from the capable to support the incapable.  Change™ from rewarding industrious work and a strong work ethic to blessing thievery and the unwillingness to support oneself.  This the the Change™ progressives want- distributing the wealth the way a pursesnatcher distributes the contents of a woman's stolen wallet.

"Yes We Can!™"   Sounds strong, doesn't it?  It has "We", so it's inclusive.  "Yes", so it's positive. And "Can", so it implies action.   "Yes We Can!™"   Yup.  CAN WHAT???  A mob can do a lot- loot a store, burn down a building, lynch a human, cause a neighborhood riot, blow up a bus/train/market/school...   "Yes We Can!™"   We can totally screw up this country by allowing freeloaders to destroy the self-motivation of the truly capable, the skilled.   "Yes We Can!™" is the hedonistic cattle call used by Obama to empower millions of leeches to crawl from their slime pits and invade the check books of hard-working citizens.   Every person who felt they deserved what other people have, the envious, the covetous, they got empowered.  "Yes We Can!™" steal and say it's re-distributing the wealth, "Yes We Can!™" enslave and say it's for your own good that they put the yoke upon your shoulders.

There's one thing Obama didn't tell his followers to do:  Think.  Don't do that.  Just listen, believe, repeat, Hope™ for Change™ because, as Hamas discovered in elections in Palestine, "Yes We Can!™" win when we appeal to the lowest common denominator and make them feel as if their self-inflicted status is all someone else's fault.  And the beauty of it is, you don't have to think.   Obama and his teleprompter will do that for you.

That made him popular.  It made him President.  And it makes him and his devotees, the condescending morally-bankrupt thieves running the Democratic cabal, into a powerhouse of iniquity.  

Am I bitter?  You bet.  And I hope that both parties suffer miserable losses in the upcoming elections.  Conservative values- as in, I won't bug you, you don't bug me, we'll get along, will keep us from the nightmare that's our current adminstative juggernaut.

I hope.  I just don't expect.  Because the one think progressives, and the guilty, don't want to do is Think.