On
November 1, 2004 - the day before the Great Election
of 2004 - I
wondered aloud how the liberals would explain to themselves
their massive defeat in a way that would make them feel better
about themselves. I took a couple of stabs at the answer to
my own question, which turned out to be uncannily accurate:
"Will
they claim fraud? Will they blame a "stupid" voting
public?"
They
have done and continue to do both of these, of course, and
at a volume and with a blatant disregard for facts that (almost)
surprises even me.
Any
liberal with a modicum of intelligence and an ounce of introspective
ability would realize, given the election results, that something
about that which he represents must be out of sync with mainstream
American culture. The smart thing to do would be to regroup
and analyze, and then based on that analysis decide if the
Party can adapt and change, or should simply be allowed to
die.
But
intellectually honest self-examination is beyond the ability
of modern liberals, because it would expose the truth about
themselves to themselves, and that can't be. So not
only can liberals not accept the clear and undeniable truth
of the outcome of the election, rather that outcome has spawned
a whole new gaggle of organizations and websites in the mold
of "MoveON.Org," which was formed in response to
the impeachment of convicted perjurer, admitted liar, sexual
harasser and alleged rapist Bill Clinton.
One of
these is "Retro vs. Metro
America," and the name itself along with the colorization
indicates the biggest trouble with liberals right off the
bat.
Kerry
voters are Metro, of course.
Modern, progressive...the elite intelligentsia. This has been
shown repeatedly by New York opinion writers who are so insanely
insulated and out of touch that it's a wonder that they're
even aware that the US is made up of more than two states.
Bush voters are "Retro."
Stupid, inbred denizens of trailer parks - all 60 million+
of them. "Osama bin Laden knows where the beating heart
of America lies - which is why he targeted New York City,
not a shopping mall in Kansas," wrote elitist extraordianaire
Tina Brown in the Washington
Post today.
Even
without the clear implication that people in "flyover
country" are too unimportant to be targeted for mass-murder,
the arrogant bigotry of that statement would be stunning if
it were not so common. But the unmurdered hayseeds in Kansas
are listening to this, and therein lies the problem for the
Democratic party.
In
a whiney essay called "How
Could This Happen," Retro vs. Metro allows that the
ignorance of anyone who does not live in a blue county is
a given - it's simply understood and need hardly be said.
"Bush...catered
shamelessly to the lowest common denominator within
his already narrow, ignorant base. Had Kerry addressed
his more educated, diverse and---most importantly---numerically
superior constituency, the margin in Kerry's favor
would\'ve been so huge as to render wholesale vote theft impractical."
In
one short, spittle-flecked burst of vitriol, this angry leftist
validates the truth of both of my predictions above;
a stupid electorate and a stolen election - "wholesale"
voter fraud.
The
irony of these charges is that they present an accurate picture
- but only if you hold that picture up to a mirror. The electorate
is ignorant, and there was massive voter
fraud - but Bush won in spite of that, not because
of it. The ignorance, and the fraud, is on the Blue side,
not the Red.
Glenn
Beck's "moron trivia" and Hannity's "man on
the street" interviews are all the (anecdotal, admittedly)
evidence you need that Kerry "Metro" voters are
MTV-driven, soundbite-informed (if informed at all), shallow,
irrational, and in many cases barely literate idiots who know
for fact that Bush is bad but when asked to name Kerry's running
mate answer "Al Sharpton."
As
for voter fraud, virtually all of the documented cases of
fraud are on the Democrat side. Kerry won Pennsylvania by
a margin that easily could have been erased if there had not
been massive fraud. College kids were caught by congressmen
and filmed by network news crews running out of State Pens
with boxes bulging with prisoner ballots. The city of Philadelphia,
which went solidly for Kerry, had more registered
voters than there are citizens over 18 according
to the last census - and they all voted at least once
for Kerry. These incidences of fraud are real and documented,
as opposed to the paranoid speculation of the radical leftist
conspiracy theorists. The elimination of the massive fraud
in Philadelphia alone could have swung the
state to Bush.
"The
internet is buzzing with reports of rigged voting machines,
intimidation, unusually high "spoilage" and long
lines in Democratic regions, vote count lockdowns---over 30,000
"irregularities," warns the outraged writer
of "How could this happen?"
The
word "reports" is a lie, of course. Wild speculation,
conspiracy theory, or illusion induced by an overdose of Moules
à la marinière with a nice 2001 Cabernet
Franc would be more accurate.
But
all of this is ok. We ignorant, illiterate in-bread hayseeds
are safe from the dictatorial bent and totalitarian aspirations
of blue county elitists. So long as they insist on deluding
themselves, and so long as they remain oblivious to the ability
of red-staters to process what they see and hear, so long
as they continue to condescend, berate, insult, and ignore
Red America, then power will remain beyond their grasp.
Blue
misunderestimates Red yet again, and Blue Loses.
