Sarah Palin is proof positive that life has never been better. She is not an elite, she did not marry an elite, and further, her husband is an indigenous American. She did not go to elite university. She and Todd have worked hard, had lots of kids, including a down-syndrome child. Challenging? Of course, but they take it in their stride, and enjoy the ride.

According to the left, the Palins should be struggling, and hopefully receiving some sort of government aid. Instead she is thriving. Todd, far from being a troubled native is some cool super-dude who liberal woman would probabaly love to trade for their house-trained partners (“husbands” is a dirty word for them).

And Palin seems happy. She is rocking the world and appears to be thriving.

The left hates Palin, not just because she is everything they are not (especially happy), but because she proves people can thrive and succeed on their own. She is proof their big-brother state isn’t necessary, and that rankles.

But there is also a flip-side to this. I went to an ordinary university, have four kids, and come from a solid immigrant, working class background. I’ve done well enough in life, and I’m reasonably content and happy. So who do I indentify with? When the left slams Palin, they are also slamming me. Their put-downs of Sarah and Todd would be just as scornfully directed at me if I wandered into their sights.

More than any politician I can remember, I can identify with Sarah Palin. So can many other people, and the left fears and envies that as well.

Go Sarah!

Seems to me all that’s needed are some creative political thinkers that understand the liberal brand will best be diminished by taking advantage of this reflexive bigotry of liberals themselves. It is the achilles heel of all bigots, that their irrational opposition to certain persons or groups, really comes from a very ugly emotion at its core.

What the feminists know: They can’t rely on men. What they fear: They can’t rely on themselves. What they demand: The state support them. Who is the state in this case? Men. So, basically, feminist fear is stronger than feminist knowledge.

Men used to support women, but the feminists demonized men. Changes in the divorce and child custody laws have made marriage a losing proposition for most men. Many men have been financially ruined by women who suddenly decided that they “fell out of love” with them. Some men have been forced to support children they didn’t even father. It shouldn’t be a surprise that many men have become extremely skittish about getting married unless they really, really, really trust the woman.

Those single women find solace in the protection of the State. Artfldgr has spoken about this phenomenon before. It’s not an accident.

And let’s not even go into the fact than men used to be role models for young boys, but nowadays are afraid to go near them for fear that some busybody will accuse them of being child molesters; while simultaneously children are taught to fear adult men. It’s all part of breaking the bonds of generations and communities and substituting the State as the role model. Meanwhile, real child molesters are defended by groups like NAMBLA.

You’ll love this one about the hatred of Sarah Palin:

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson012011.html

The comparison to Harry Truman is apt.