Supercilious Elitism

All the jabber about Obama’s bout of elitism with his elitist “homis” in San Francisco missed the real point about his attitude and the attitudes of the “knowledge elite” for whom he is the flag bearer in this election, namely, superciliousness. Superciliousness is defined as “The quality of being arrogant” which is the true disease of the over-educated, primarily self-selected group, permanently attached to the more prominent universities or, at the least, graduates from them. These are the present day Laputans, with the added irritation of superciliousness.

Obama is the epitome of the Affirmative Action baby, selected by liberal academia to become one of their own. And what a prize trophy he turned out to be: multiracial and exotic; elegant and tasteful, mimicking the speech and attitudes of his benefactors - not at all like the other, more unsavory, “people of color” (Leonard Jeffries, where are you?) who would be a hard sell to that “great unwashed”, the American electorate; a “community activist” (none of that unseemly hungering after wealth so prevalent amongst newly empowered poor people – Bill Clinton, for example); “clean”, as Joe Biden would say. His election to the Presidency would be the final triumph of the “multicultural enterprise”, so dear to the heart of the liberal (self-identified and glorified) intelligentsia, with the added bonus of his Muslim connections that would, presumably, endear the US to the Muslim world and, perhaps, persuade them to forgive us “the sins of Bush”. Is it any wonder that he set the hearts of liberal writers and talking heads a-flutter with joy and ardor?

These “knowledge elites” (the modern-day illuminati) are so wrapped up in their own world, the cocoon of academia; “public interest” groups; dilettantish philanthropists and beautiful-people hangers-on (with a few not-so-reformed “robber barons” thrown in) that they are shocked when their “intellectual” musings cause offense to, or are not taken in the enlightened spirit in which they are uttered by, the “people out there”. They cannot understand how they - with their “large” spirit and intellectual power – could ever be suspected of having any kinds of base motives (certainly not condescension!) towards their intellectual inferiors. They are enlightened and benevolent. Everything they propose is for the greater good. Of course, it is understood that for the “good” to be realized, they and others of their ilk must be in the vanguard (shades of Lenin, indeed!)

Poor Barack was only musing amongst his intellectual peers who would understand his ideas without the need for elaboration. What a shock that his words were let out from the enchanted circle and became subject to misinterpretation “out there”. To him and his peers, guns and religion would indeed be the opiate of the people; The liberals themselves, of course, would be able to handle guns and religion without any danger of misuse, if they so choose. Interestingly (but perhaps not surprisingly), no one asked Obama how his much-touted religious faith (the one he acquired from Rev. Wright!) compares to the opiate of the “bitter people”. What does his “clinging” to Christianity signify?

Since the first election of Bill Clinton, these “vanguard” people have learned the lesson of pandering to the white middle class (as opposed to their more ideologically-sincere pandering to their core interest groups) by elaborate pretense. Middle class “values” have become the mantra for Democrats seeking office outside the liberal heartland in New York, California, Massachusetts and a few other isolated Laputan enclaves. Any cause can be/must be cloaked in respectable middle class garb: enhancement of the welfare state - “It’s all about the children”; surrender and pacifism in foreign policy – “it’s all about the troops”; multiculturalization of American society and culture by mass immigration – “it’s about hard working men and women” and “taking care of the interests of children” (this one useful for advocating legalizing the illegals). And, to top it all off, liberals loudly accuse conservatives of pandering when conservatives advocate conservative causes!

Poor Barack, he needs to be better attuned to the lingo and the hypocrisy – in other words, he needs to learn from Hillary!