Dakota Beacon

Behold the first paragraph of an article by one Paul Starr.

Something feels wrong about the state of American politics. With millions unemployed and home foreclosures at record levels, the country is still suffering acutely from the recession's effects, yet the Tea Party is the only movement that can put thousands of people into the streets. How is it that so soon after activists helped Barack Obama win the presidency, the left is quiet while feet march and fires burn on the right?

It would have been hard to conceive so much dishonesty, blindness, and defective thinking all in one place had we not seen it ourselves. (As an aside, scroll down below Starr's article and take a gander at the headshot. Maybe the guy's an ecstatically joyous man who just looks profoundly disturbed. Who knows?)

Starr's opening paragraph projects progressive fraudulence.

First, apparently people (tea-partiers) who don't want big government embrace "wrong" politics.

Secondly, Starr's eyes and ears must be non-functional. Or maybe he's not looking at and listening to the tens of thousands of violent union-organized Astroturf demonstrators protesting Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law.

Thirdly, the left is quiet? Really? Quiet? Maybe Starr really doesn't know about all those violent union-organized Astroturf demonstrators protesting Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law? Yes, that's it. He mustn't be aware.

Fourth, "Fires burn on the right"? I guess Starr's just waxing metaphorically. Unless, well, unless Starr is acting like other whiney progressives who shudder over the "violent" activities of 60 to 80 year-old grandparents sitting in lawn chairs and holding up signs objecting to big government intrusion and rising taxation.

Starr's dissociation from reality deepens.

Many progressives blame Obama, saying that he fell in with the wrong crowd in Washington and Wall Street, gave too much ground on policy, failed to mobilize his grass-roots organization, and lost his true voice, at least until the final weeks of the health-care battle when he barnstormed the nation and looked like the candidate the public elected in 2008.

Tales from another planet in another universe--consistent with how progressives approach life in general.

Then suddenly,a Freudian slip--an acknowledgement of the tangled web of corporatism that Obama has weaved.

When the health-insurance companies crossed the administration by running ads against reform, the president lambasted the industry. Wall Street firms that oppose strong financial-reform legislation have invited another round of tactical populism. This is tit for tat, an entirely rational game for the administration to play.

Life is all a game for people who manipulate language to make the world appear to fit the paradise ricocheting around inside the haywired cerebral cortex.

Starr makes the perfect statement to illustrate what rational, clear-thinking, self-respecting, accountable, achievement-oriented Americans are up against:

The Democrats are the party of responsible government, and America needs at least one of those.

Holy mackerel!

Huge nanny-state government that destroys people's self-respect, creates massive dependency, and vaporizes the free market is "responsible" government? What traditional Americans face in the way of imminent threat to the American way of life has never been clearer.

And now, for something completely... destructive.

How about a little "social justice?"

The stock market has soared in the past year and profits are rolling in at Goldman Sachs, while the jobless rate is still hovering near 10 percent. It seems unjust for Wall Street to be doing well while so many suffer, and it is unjust.

The progressive mentality deems it "fair" or "just" for everybody--well, not really everybody, mainly the "oppressed"--to be awarded the life results achieved by "oppressors." Actual achievement plays no role in progressive "logic."  "Social justice" demands that "oppressed" people be given the same lifestyle as "oppressors."

But Starr is not finished making utterly asinine statements. With Obama having racked up more debt than all 43 previous Presidents combined and turbo-charged America down the road to serfdom, the brilliant mind concludes that...

…Obama's policies are working as well as anyone could realistically have hoped under the dire circumstances the president inherited. Yes, the stimulus last year should have been bigger, and we need another round of spending to prevent a double-dip recession.

A brain so disconnected from functional sensors must surely produce the most constipated "smile" imaginable. Go ahead, look at that face one more time. A picture of happiness, huh?

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