Posted on 12/06/2013 5:21:53 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Seduced and then disappointed by a hipster who turned out just to be another solipsistic boomer, now chastened yet still hopeful for change (if no longer swept away by the promise of Hope and Change), young Americans are ready to ditch Barack Obama. Things had been getting rocky for a while, but seeing the dawning of the Age of Obamacare in its full glory seems to have been the final indignity. The young will of course never acknowledge that maybe their old-fogey parents were right all along, but they do understand that what they thought was going to be a meaningful, long-term relationship has turned out to be just a youthful fling. And so they’re getting ready to say, Dear Barack, thanks for the memories, but we’ll be returning the next email to sender, addressee unknown.
In 2008, 66 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 voted for Barack Obama, and 60 percent of that age group stuck with their man in 2012. Now a poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics shows only 46 percent saying they’d vote for him again, and a (narrow) plurality of young Americans actually say they would recall him if they could. (Indeed, among the younger half of the cohort, 18- to 24-year-olds, who missed some of the 2008 infatuation, there’s a clear majority for recall.) Only 41 percent of the 18-to-29 cohort approve of the job performance of the president to whose election they were so crucial, with 54 percent disapproving. Nor is there much lingering fondness for the sweet liberal nothings Barack whispered into their ears. More Americans between 18 and 29 now report they’re conservative (37 percent) than say they’re liberal (33 percent), and one suspects the 26 percent who call themselves moderate are more open to moving...
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...only seduced by the next liberal snake oil salesmen. These people are incapable of learning anything.
Maybe we should call them mind whores.
There is a parallel universe, it is the spiritual realm. Everything that is described in the Bible as a spiritual truth has a worldly application. In the case of Obamacare, one would not be wrong in allegorizing that O-care, in the end, is equivalent to hell. And that so many have been and remain deceived by its promises and pretties, that one can easily equate the slick selling of O-care as "The Broad and Easy Road".
The good thing about being on this side of the parallel universe is that in our space-time dimension, the mind (or the heart if you prefer) has a chance to acknowledge its error and correct its course. What's amazing is that there are still so many... 41% still like the taste of the cool-aid laced poison and are still willy-nilly slipping and sliding, happily down, down, down into Obamacare.
What's the opposite of damning with faint praise? Praising with faint damns?
William Kristol just smeared every boomer with a very nasty comparison to the narcissist and pathological liar Obama.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
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