The Art of Vilification

blog.robertringer.com ^ | August 20, 2009 | Robert Ringer

[EternalVigilance]

As I watch the White House and its henchmen — the Pelosi-Reid-Frank-Schumer crowd, ACORN, SEIU, youth pawns, and miscellaneous thugs and goons (loons?) — engage in childish name calling in an effort to discredit anyone who disagrees with Obama’s vision of two Americas (political-elite class and taxpaying serfs), it brings back memories of being in grade school.

I’ve written extensively about teacher and student bullying (The Cho Factor, Parts I-XXXIV), so what the Obamaviks are now doing rings a familiar bell with me. Almost without fail, the schoolyard bully, when confronted, accuses his victim of doing precisely what he himself is guilty of. And, sadly, all too often it works.

Whether it’s Kathleen Sebelius calling town-hall protestors terrorists, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs chuckling and waving them aside as angry mobs, or the arrogant Wizard of Words in the Oval Office lashing out at Fox News, their tactics are childish, pathetic, and shameless.

Birthers … deathers … teabaggers … astroturfers … truthers … the left has an endless arsenal of epithets with which to vilify, discredit, and dismiss their dissatisfied employers. As Ann Coulter says, if you want to know what liberals are up to, just listen to what they accuse conservatives of. In my recent interview with Michelle Malkin, she referred to this tactic in psychological terms as “projection.” Whatever you’re guilty of, just accuse the other side of doing it.

One recent example is when a little girl (Julia Hall) read the phony question at the phony town-hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: “As I was walking in, I saw a lot of signs outside saying mean things about reforming healthcare. How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can help more of us?” How sad. Poor thing. It’s stuff like this that brings a softie like Glenn Beck to tears.

The Dean of Duplicity then used the planted question to turn on his “change we can believe in” campaign charm and wave aside talk about “death panels that will pull the plug on grandma.” As the world now knows, however, Julia’s mother, Kathleen Manning Hall, was a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for Obama during the election. I can smell the strong fragrance even now.

Then there was the woman at Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s town-hall meeting in Houston who stood up to speak, said she was a doctor, then talked glowingly about the importance of “healthcare reform.” The only problem was that she isn’t a doctor. She’s a college student who was a DNC delegate for Obama! Hmm … probably just got confused. Another innocent mistake from the left.

Healthcare is a serious issue, to be sure, but, in an odd sort of way, it’s really a distraction from the main issue: freedom. The majority of Americans are now against government-run healthcare, but I wonder what percentage of them understands that it’s more about servitude versus freedom than government-run healthcare versus private healthcare.

Will the Thugocrats try to ram through a healthcare bill in the Fall that could start a second American Revolution, or will they back off and come up with a slicker, more sinister way of achieving their objective? Remember, Obama is a Leninite through and through, meaning that he believes that his “moral” objectives justify lying, deception, and even the death of innocent people. (Left-wing revolutionaries have always believed that the death of innocent people is simply an unfortunate side consequence of “people’s revolutions.”)

Much sooner than I thought was possible, Obama’s popularity has become a perishable commodity. But here’s the problem: Neither he nor his collaborating thugs care what voters think — other than their voters, of course. Their attitude is pretty clear at this point: The rest of their employers — the general public — can go to hell.

So, it’s business as usual on Planet Earth — just another struggle between liberty and tyranny. The struggle never ends, and the Liberty-Tyranny Pendulum never tires of swinging back and forth between the two. How will it end this time — in, of all places, the United States of America?

No one knows for sure, but the suspense would make for a great novel. Unfortunately, it’s real life. But if we get government-run healthcare, many of us may not be around long enough to see how it turns out.

[oyez]

If H.R. 3200 passes, we have a good idea who will be handling our medical records.