Why Does the Left Think Americans Are Stupid?

Joe Biden
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It occurred once more this week. When Joe Biden used the port of Baltimore as a photograph op for a message a couple of crumbling provide chain, his phrases dripped with condescension. “You hear a lot about the supply chains in the news,” the president lectured, “but frankly, not a lot of people have a clear understanding, whether they have a Ph.D. or they didn’t go to school, about how a supply chain works.” This comes on the heels of his quantity two in command – Kamala Harris – who knowledgeable us it’s “almost impossible” for rural Americans to make a photocopy. Oh, and we mustn’t overlook the frontal assault on black Americans who, in line with the left, are incapable of acquiring picture identification – amongst myriad different life expertise.

So why does the left suppose Americans are silly and unable to perform with out the guiding hand of their betters?

Attention Walmart Shoppers!

Terry McAuliffe
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Walmart consumers reek of Trump help, in line with former FBI Agent Peter Strzok. Barack Obama characterised those that opposed him as a “bitter” lot who “cling to guns or religion” and harbor “antipathy to people who aren’t like them” to “explain their frustrations.” Then there are the veteran leftist-lifers like former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe who thinks “parents should not be telling schools what they should teach.” He arrogantly prefaced that comment with, “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.”

God forbid dad and mom’ needs needs to be thought of when there are skilled educators at the prepared.

But wait – there’s extra: The granddaddy of haughty feedback was uttered by none apart from Hillary Rodham Clinton who, in a single fell swoop, fused Americans who weren’t responding to her leftist ideology into one big “basket of deplorables.” Jumbled like human refuse on this progressive dumpster, Clinton sermonized, are the “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic.”  These leftists vogue themselves as a pompous Dean Wormer trying down his nostril in any respect the Flounders on the market who’re going by means of life “Fat, drunk and stupid…” a al Animal House.

Uneducated, unkempt, and altogether too dim to handle their lives, progressives inform the American folks over and once more how we want them to outlive as a result of the common citizen have to be instructed what to do (get a vaccine or else) when to do it (it’s now or by no means) and why they have to march to the drumbeat of their betters (simply because I say so). Yes, these progressives have a deep want to regulate the whole lot in the lives of the plenty just because we’re apparently neither succesful nor intelligent sufficient to make clever selections.

The left has elevated its political view to a divinely monarchical degree – they’re enlightened, Harvard educated, stay in gated communities, and don’t have any want for the police. If they want safety, they’ll rent it. If they want a wall, they’ll simply construct one round their prosperous compounds. The downside that frustrates them no finish is that this: Why is the common American not listening to their sensible counsel? This is what confounds and exasperates leftists. Why on earth are Americans working from progressivism, socialism, Marxism, and each different “ism” the left retains attempting to shove down our throats – particularly when this elite class so clearly has nothing however our greatest pursuits at coronary heart?

Why don’t we sit down, shut up, and do as this supercilious crowd instructions?

Perhaps it’s as a result of America was not based on the concept of a privileged class ruling with an iron fist as if it have been the collective reincarnation of King George III. Liberty and self-determination are woven into the material of the American expertise. Our DNA just isn’t wired for obeisance.

When John Adams proposed George Washington be addressed as “His Excellency,” Washington balked. Behind his again and with out lacking a beat, patriots took to calling Mr. Adams “His Rotundity.” Open mocking of the American folks just isn’t a political technique however a psychological transference by a excessive and mighty bunch of bullies.

If the president’s ballot numbers and what simply occurred to the Democrats in a current high-profile election are any indication, it seems the ball is now in the palms of these whom leftists like to ridicule. These obsessively controlling, imperious progressives can be sensible to hearken to the phrases of the late entrepreneur Herman Cain who mentioned, “Stupid people are ruining America.” It just isn’t the different means round.

~ Read extra from Leesa Ok. Donner.