One liberal thinks he’s got the 2010 results all figured out:
At a recent discussion on the Nov. 2 election hosted by the local Society for Professional Journalists, UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin was expounding on why Republicans emerged triumphant, in Wisconsin and throughout the land.
In my questions to Franklin, I noted that the public seemed to vote against its own interests and stated desires, for instance by electing candidates who’ll drive up the deficit with fiscally reckless giveaways to the rich.
Franklin, perhaps a bit too candidly, conceded the point. “I’m not endorsing the American voter,” he answered. “They’re pretty damn stupid.”…
Its a strange world, indeed. A world in which Obama is considered smart and Palin, dumb. And a world in which college professors, cheesed off at election results, pronounce blanket judgments on millions of people they’ve never met. No surprise, that – after all, the basis of most modern, left wing thought stems from Karl Marx…who wrote about the desires of workers even though he’d never worked a day in his life.
We live in a world where birth rates are falling, and liberals fight tooth and nail to keep abortion legal. A world where rapes and murders take on ever more horrific forms, but any attempt to curb pornography and violence in popular culture is greeted with shrieks of horror. A nation $13 trillion in debt is seriously urged in some quarters to go further in debt. Enemies plot to kill us, and our security officials spend time patting down little boys and nuns. Yes, indeed, there are some stupid people out there. Pity the good professor has mis-identified whom they are.
