America Divided: An Eternal Gulf
Reading the comments on the message boards of local and national news sites is shocking and disheartening.
I read a story on KSL’s web site dealing with the economy. The comments were a mix of conservative, liberal and moderate posts. The most troubling posts were by rabid liberals who refuse to see what is so obviously right in front of them every day in the news.
Barak Obama is now being criticized for his economic policies by people who were once his supporters, people who see what is happening to the economy, and who rightly understand that this is not solely the fault of George W. Bush.
But some of the comments were written by people who hate George W. Bush, Republicans, and Conservatives so deeply that they refuse to see how Obama has not only failed to turn back the economic policies that began this debacle, but he has actually enhanced and enlarged the scope of the damage with his own socialist policies.
One poster in particular caught my attention. He was posting anonymously, of course, so I don’t know who he was, which is very convenient when you want to avoid criticism.
This person insisted that Obama’s policies were not affecting the economy that badly, that it was Pres. Bush’s fault for not putting a stop to the problem when he had the chance, and attempted to disguise the truth by focusing on the definitions of “deficit” and “debt.” More specifically, he claimed that Obama had not added to the debt, but instead had introduced a larger deficit which would eventually lower the debt. He mentioned that he was an accountant, which he relied upon as his expertise.
Now, if I had an accountant like that, I’d fire him. According to Michael Boskin, an economics professor at Stanford University, Barak Obama has added more to America’s debt than all former U.S. Presidents combined. Those are demonstrable facts, facts Mr. Anonymous Accountant refuses to acknowledge.
While this is admittedly an anecdotal example, it is the rule rather than the exception. Across these message boards, Liberals are in denial about the effects that “Obamanomics” will have on America now and in the future. And some are even embracing the possibilities. Sadly, I don’t think this is accidental. There is a quote commonly attributed to FDR, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.” Whether he actually said that or not, the principle rings true. Americans have been groomed by the Media and by Liberal educuational institutions to accept and follow a leader like Obama, even if it means the end of America as we now know it. And I believe that has been the hope and the aim of the American Left for a long time.
