It seems you always find something to criticize. You don't cheer for BO, but you imply the band wagon for the other side is just as bad. You imply populism is the same as conservatism. You imply that most conservatives don't understand why we are angry or why we are protesting. You seem intent to minimize what, by all credible accounts, was the largest single peaceful protest by American citizens against current government policies in anyone's memory, and to opine that those who participated were unaware of why they were actually there or that they are somehow under the control of some other force beyond their comprehension -- mere sheep in a larger, elitist passion play we can never fully understand or effectually change.
My choice is an alternative to BO's policies. Let me say them again. I am against massive government, government programs that usurp individual freedoms in favor of statist central control and ignore any aspect of personal responsibility and individual freedoms of all Americans. I am against spending so massive that the indebtedness of America makes us all paupers. I am against monetizing that debt by printing worthless dollars and guaranteeing that inflation must follow. I am against power hungry politicians, Democrat and Republican, who put their own personal agendas and financial gains ahead of the well-being of ever common American citizen. I am against socialism, Marxism, fascism, communism, and all other varieties of powerful central government structures that reduce the population of a great nation to mere serfdom.
As for my choice to the alternative to BO -- yes, geiger there is still a choice and Americans will be continually called on to make that choice, for better or worse. As for what now is called liberalism (versus the classic liberalism of those like, for example, Daniel Patrick Moynihan), the current brand of American 'liberalism is characterized elitist progressivism, judicial activism, moral relativism, radical egalitarianism, reverse racism, and a fascist statism.
The political thought of BO and the elitist leftists of his ilk says loudly and clearly to me and many others that we are "rednecks", we are "morons" with educations little better than "4th graders". That we are "southerners" by and large inbred racists who never got over losing the Civil War, that we are rural-living Americans who live in the "red, fly-over states and aren't smart enough or perceptive enough to be trusted with our own personal freedoms and responsibilities. We are Bible thumping fundamentalists who cling to religion and firearms, we are conservative capitalists who wrongly and smiplistically think that we should be entitled to keep what we earn and not be the slaves to the latest government entitlement program. That we are just stupid, and greedy, and small-minded and wrong when it comes to doing what is enlightened and best as determined by those with better brains than ours.
We surely need the elite Harvard, Yale, Princeton graduate types, who are better educated, who have never had a real job, who are the political "chosen class" to tell us how our country and our lives and our children's lives should be run, and how much of our hard-earned paychecks it is "fair" for us to keep, and to reveal what our real, subverted, tawdry motives are, and why that is wrong, and how such thinking is destroying the planet or endangering the welfare of others with a different political point of view. And we surely must need the advice of more enlightened foreigners to remake the American political system into something better, more desirable, more enviable. Something that affirms the opinions of, for example, a liberal Canadian observer to the process.
If you don't understand the similarities and differences of national socialism, communism, fascism, progressivism, capitalism, individualism, and conservatism, and if you think that they are all just different verses of the same tune, then perhaps you should consider the possibility that you may just be horribly wrong of your assessment of the American politics and what is best for American citizens. But perhaps that is just my uneducated opinion, eh?
