In a previous commentary (Obama’s Gift to American, 4/16/08) I quoted George Will (Minneapolis StarTribune, 4/15/08) in his demonstration that liberals believe that the “masses” are easily swayed by “false consciousness”.  In effect, liberals believe that the “masses” are not very intelligent.  Barack Obama has stated this belief very clearly in his speech concerning the “bitterness” he attributes to normal, everyday Americans.  George Will asserts that because of this belief, four rules follow:

 

“First, the consent of the governed, when their behavior is governed by their false consciousnesses, is unimportant.

 

“Second, the public requires the supervision of a progressive elite which, somehow emancipated from false consciousness, can engineer true consciousness.

 

“Third, because consciousness is a reflection of social conditions, true consciousness is engineered by progressive social reforms.

 

“Fourth, because people in the grip of false consciousness cannot be expected to demand or even consent to such reforms, those reforms usually must be imposed, for example, by judicial fiats.”

 

This from the portion of the political spectrum (represented by the Democrat Party) that says it is the only one that really cares for the people. 

 

The Democrat Party has finally shown its true colors in the person of Barack Obama.  It has also shown its true colors in the decision to create “super delegates” to the Democrat Convention.

 

The Democrat Party has long demonstrated its distaste for Democracy.  In the minds of Democrat leaders, the people “get it wrong” too often.  If they only had a way to counter the failures of the people.  Well, they found a way in the creation of “super delegates”.

 

Wikipedia defines “‘super delegate’ as an informal term commonly used for some of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the United States Democratic Party.  Unlike most convention delegates, the super delegates are not selected based on the party primaries and caucuses in each U.S. state, in which voters choose among candidates for the party's presidential nomination. Instead, most of the super delegates are seated automatically, based solely on their status as current or former party leaders and elected officials (‘PLEOs’). Others are chosen during the primary season. All the super delegates are free to support any candidate for the nomination.”

 

This is elitism at its best.  Super delegates are special.  They are the party faithful, the elite leaders who apparently know more than common people who used to have the right to vote and to select their candidates.  They apparently know more that the very people that the Democrat Party claims to love and respect and serve.

 

This is yet another example of the power of the left and the naivety of more than half of the people in this nation who are allowing their freedoms to be eroded by the people they believe are serving them.

 

Once again, all this is consistent with what I have been writing about for years.  It is also consistent with the brilliant book entitled “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg (Doubleday, 2007).   I implore you to read that book before you do anything else.  Especially if you are a liberal.  You owe it to yourself and you owe it to America!