Good news and bad news: The good news is that the geniuses who now run Washington have finally figured out that Americans don’t like Obamacare. The bad news is that they still think ”reform” is a good idea.
They haven’t yet managed to grasp the blindingly obvious reality that Obamacare’s unpopularity is due to gigantic flaws in the House and Senate bills—-and the nanny-state philosophy upon which they are based.
Instead, displaying an Olympic-class gift for unintentional irony, the President, Congress and the “news” media have collectively concluded that the voters are just too bloody stupid to know what’s good for us.
This patronizing attitude toward the electorate (i.e. the employers of the President and Congress) was summed up perfectly in Obama’s recent SOTU speech, wherein the President offered the following mea culpa:
I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people.
In other words, he didn’t speak slowly enough for us knuckle-dragging morons shuffling around in flyover country to understand that increased costs, less access and lower quality are actually GOOD things.
The President’s belief that we “just don’t get it” is behind the return of David Plouffe to Obama’s inner circle. Plouffe’s advice for the Dems, as expressed in a WaPo op-ed, epitomizes this condescending view of the voters:
Make sure voters understand … organize them and educate them.
This notion that we need to be “educated” is by no means limited to the White House. Nor is it limited to the health reform issue. Joe Klein recently wrote the following about a poll showing that 75% of us think the “stimulus” was a bust:
This is yet further evidence that Americans are flagrantly ill-informed … It is very difficult to thrive in an increasingly competitive world if you’re a nation of dodos.
This brilliant analysis was in a post called “Too Dumb to Thrive,” and it is actually “further evidence” that the voters are a lot smarter than our Washington masters realize (and that Klein is a braying jackass).
In business, the attitude displayed by Obama, Plouffe, Klein, et al is called “blaming the customer,” and it is the fastest route to bankruptcy ever conceived. It’s also a good way for the Dems to lose Congress and the White House.
As Senator-elect Scott Brown, a man whose ability to read the voters is famously more accurate than that of Washington’s political establishment, recently pointed out in an interview with David Frum:
People aren’t stupid, and leaders should figure out they’re better informed now than ever.
President Obama, his congressional accomplices and their media shills should heed Brown’s straightforward and irrefutable wisdom. On the other hand, as a conservative Republican, I hope they ignore it.
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