Obama: Keep 'Em Needy And Ignorant!

There's nothing quite so astounding as listening to abject ignorance with your own ears.  We'll get to that in a moment...first, some background from Howard Portnoy at the Hot Air Greenroom:

We’re now living through the “Obama Years” (capital Y), a phrase I predict that will be looked back on some day with the same nostalgia people reserve for the Great Depression. Yep, I remember the Obama Years, future oldtimers will be telling their grandkids. People lining up on the street on the false hope of a government handout.

No, for real. It happened two weeks ago in Detroit. Some 35,000 people, most of them black, lined up on the streets leading to the Cobo Center, where they believed they would be receiving “Obama money.” If that phrase — Obama money — sounds to you like funny money, you’re on the right track, except that funny money (aka counterfeit currency) really exists.

So desperate were these people to cash in on free money distributed by the man America had elected as its savior that fights broke out. Several people were nearly trampled.

In fairness to the Obama administration, the city of Detroit, and its fine citizens (more on them in a moment), a real process had supposedly been instituted to make stimulus money available to the most hard-hit victims of the recession. Unfortunately, here in the Obama Years, applications were distributed to 65,000 people, when in fact the plan was to issue checks to 3,500 — specifically those who had been out of work the longest and/or were facing foreclosure.

He posts the transcript of an interview with a couple citizens (more on that in a moment) who are literally expecting a handout from Obama's personal 'stash' of cash, prompting this conclusion:

This, I believe, is just as Obama would have it: to be adored by his followers who believe he will dole riches out to them as needed from his personal “stash.” In short, the goal of his administration is to keep the masses ignorant and in need — which in turn are hallmarks of socialism. As Grant Ellis writes in American Thinker,

Liberty and responsibility are codependent: two sides of the same coin. I don’t think this concept is that difficult to grasp but our government, often at the insistence of a loud and ignorant political base, has sought for decades to make Americans less responsible for their daily lives and therefore less free. Curiously, this stealthy march toward tyranny is often done in the name of compassion, usually for ‘the needy.’ Shamefully, with the ‘help’ of government, the truly needy are at high risk of becoming truly dependent. Once that happens, escape is practically impossible.

That is one reason Obama is so threatened by dissent — why he and his minions disparaged the tea parties and has mounted an all-out assault on FOX News.

I think this conclusion is absolutely correct.  As it would happen, Rush Limbaugh ended at the same conclusion on his radio program earlier in the month, and posted some audio of these interviews.  This is a must listen:

   

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This is what we're dealing with.  This is why Obama can say one thing on Monday, and the completely opposite thing on Tuesday, and his Obots -- now do you know why I think the name fits so nicely? -- don't bat an eyelash.  This kind of slavish devotion combined with sheer ignorance is what will swamp this country if it is allowed to expand unchecked.

Personally, I wouldn't waste time with Obots like this.  There is literally nothing you can do to inform them or persuade them of anything for the simple fact that they consciously refuse to open their eyes.  I think it's a much better use of our time and energy to use Obot moments like this to reach all of those other people who are intelligent, thoughtful, and perfectly capable of seeing and understanding of these things...but they just don't care.  Call them the apolitical masses.

Unlike political junkies like me, most normal people hate politics in general, specific politicians in particular, and pretty much everything related.  They just want to be left alone.  I completely get that.  That's how I was up until just a couple years ago.  Unfortunately, all these things that Obama is doing are going to shove more government intervention into the lives of every American, regardless of how much attention they pay (or don't pay) to politics.  The rising swell of opposition against these intrusions and suicidal policies is evidence that more of these apolitical folks are reluctantly concluding that their desire to be left alone by government is simply not practical right now, and they are getting involved.

By reading this blog and the many others I've linked on here, you're already light years ahead, and upgrading yourself from part of the problem to part of the solution.  Keep it up, you smart person, you!

There's my two cents.