“Obama (like Bloomberg) doesn’t feel he even has to engage the arguments against the mosque—because he regards his fellow citizens as emotionally traumatized victims, not citizens who might have a reasonable point of view.”
Did he ignore the views of the majority of voters in the health care debate because he thought they were emotionally traumatized? No, he ignored them because they were inconvenient to achieving his leftist agenda and because quite clearly, he believes he knows better than the ignorant citizens how health care should be handled.
Thus, his position on the mosque is simply more of the same, not some unique posture he has adopted on grounds that in this particular instance the public was emotionally traumatized.
Name a single issue on which Obama believes the public has a “reasonable” point of view. A majority supports the Arizona law, for example, but that didn’t stop his AG from suing Arizona over it. In both Gallup and WSJ polls recently, the public disapproves of his handling of a dozen major issues. That’s pretty clear evidence of just how far outside the mainstream this president’s views and policy positions are.
He’d like you to believe his unpopularity is because he’s taken on the “tough” issues. In reality, the public disagrees with his approach to how those issues should be resolved. But it’s hard for him and his advisors to see this simple truth when they believe that they know best. People could not in good conscience support “nanny state” policies unless they did believe they knew better than the ignorant public how people should best conduct their lives. It’s an extraordinarily undemocratic posture.
This is the same person who, in a gathering of the elite in the Bay Area, ridiculed American commoners as bitter people who cling to God and guns.
He knows we are all ignorant and too simple to understand what is best for us.