http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/04/06/why-is-the-political-situation-so-bleak-because-the-elite-fears-being-unfashionable-more-than-being-wrong/

The United States was originally and until, say, the later 19th century a predominantly agricultural country and a very rural one, and agriculture promotes certain values–hard work, community, thrift, planning, looking ahead, and a keen eye for changing conditions; clearing the land and farming it was brutal work that took its toll, ground people down, and injuries, sickness, and early death were way too common, and the average lifespan was something like half what it is today. Moreover living in small communities, you knew your neighbors, families were not scattered but lived close together, and most meetings with people were face to face. In this environment/society reputation was everything, for you could not very easily survive or flourish if people had a bad opinion of you and did not trust your word. Now, who really cares? These people had firsthand experience of the price they paid for their freedom and prosperity, and the schools played a major role in keeping that social structure and that mind-set alive.

Now, when 82% of our population lives in cities where anonymity is often the rule, families are scattered geographically, rural life is diminishing and farming comprises just 0.7% of our economy, that experience base and all the attitudes that it promoted are mostly gone, we hardly care what “the neighbors” might think because we don’t know them, their good or bad opinion of us has no real effect on our survival, nor is our family likely around to witness our behavior i.e. all of the old, traditional social constraints that made for an orderly, if dull, life have been been done away with–and our schools are trying mightily to efface our past, destroy the “Americanness” and national unity they used to play such a major role in creating and preserving, and they, instead, promote the reach for some sort of far Left Utopia, if only we let those–so much wiser than we–in charge have their way, and let them rearrange things to make things much more “fair” and us even more “comfortable.”

If it were not for the Iranian bomb I would be glad to see Obama win re-election, maybe the lost prosperity and liberty would awaken the public from their silly vacation from history.

The Great Depression/WWII era audience of “ the Greatest Generation”–now passing from the scene–was given the pitch for Communism and only a very few–here and there–bought it.

So, the Left’s idea was to:

First, “rebrand” and repackage its program as Progressivism/Liberalism, and concern for human rights, the environment, women’s rights, fairness and equal justice, and all sorts of other good and high sounding things.

Second, to capture the educational establishment, and to change the content of education, so as to subvert and/or strip away all of the fundamental knowledge and those analytical tools necessary for citizens to be able to play an effective part in the public debate and to understand the arguments and actions being taken in our democratic Republic–subjects like the histories of Greece and Rome, American history, Rhetoric, Logic, Mathematics, Economics, Philosophy, and many other subjects, to Balkanize the students and divide them by race and culture, and to replace these subjects with subverted, dumbed down versions of their former selves, propaganda, junk and piffle and, further, to insist on the primacy of the Postmodern viewpoint, in which there are no standards, and nothing can be measured or is better than any other thing–and which makes the act of judgment not only useless, but an act of prejudice, and part of a power game to keep the underclass down.

Paralleling this subversion and occupation of education were similar very successful efforts waged against popular culture, religion, government and politics, law and business, relations between the sexes and the family, racial relations, community organizations, etc. etc.

So, I believe that many in the audience (I don’t know what percentage, but I believe it to be alarmingly large) that is witnessing all this today have very different interests, have far less knowledge and background, a very different attitude towards life, and stand in a far different place than their forbearers and, therefore, see things very differently–and, again, deliberately so.

Thus, the pitch is being made again today to a new audience, and whether they will see it for what it is, or buy it or not is open to question.

I have to disagree. We’ve noticed this before, nothing sticks to this President, he makes one bad or reprehensible move after another and it does not effect his 47% approval rating. In the last month he has attacked freedom of religion, was caught plotting treason with the Russians, threatened the Supreme Court, taken credit for Bush’s oil drilling programs, stopped the XL pipeline while boasting of the increased oil production under his administration, spent his kids on another expensive vacation, to Las Vegas, a very act he denounced a few years ago, had another budget proposal voted down by Congress , all this as the Moslem Brotherhood prepares to take over Egypt due to his incompetence, appeared more concerned over an Israeli attack on Iran than an Iranian bomb; and after all this he is still a viable candidate for re-election.

If there is any “sleeping force” that is awakening they are taking their time about it. Frankly, I do not know what to make of a public that seems mesmerized by this teflon President. I will agree with you on one thing, the public does appear to be asleep.

BHO knows that his base knows exactly zero about the Constitution or actually loathes the Constitution and the concept of a republic. He is demagoguing the issue at hand and knows his MSM lackeys will follow his lead. However, he is ultimately a fool because he does not realize that there are unintended consequences to each and everyone of his actions. He has awaken a long sleeping force which he can not comprehend and blithely sloughs off as “bitter clingers”. So much for a Columbia and Harvard eduction. Let the game begin.

The best way to properly handle a bully is to sneak up behind him and quietly take him down.

And Obama’s message, sure to be reported and reinforced and spread far and wide by the MSM–but not dissected or contradicted–is that this small group of unelected and therefore somehow illegitimate Supreme Court justices, the pawns of the Republicans, are going to, if allowed to get their way, rip their various benefits–Obamacare, welfare, WIC, AFDC, unemployment, etc., etc–right out of their hands, and the MSM will not counter this image.

So, Obama does not care of more informed people know better, or if they think he has directly and unmistakably confirmed to them that he is an ignoramus, just so long as he gets his message of fear out to his base.