The Daily Plunge

As we move closer to November expect the Left’s sophomoric attacks on the Tea Party to continue. It appears that the Tea Party will be the whipping boy for liberals too stupid to understand it’s their policies that are the problem, not the homophobic and racist Tea Party. Take, for example, this recent op-ed in the New York Times by J.M. Bernstein. Bernstein channels his real world experience as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research (please note that none of the words in his “distinguished” title have any meaning in the real world in which 99.9 percent of us live).

It is not for the sake of acquiring political power that Tea Party activists demonstrate, rally and organize; rather, Lilla argues, the appeal is to “individual opinion, individual autonomy, and individual choice, all in the service of neutralizing, not using, political power.”  He calls Tea Party activists a “libertarian mob” since they proclaim the belief “that they can do everything themselves if they are only left alone.”  Lilla cites as examples the growth in home schooling, and, amidst a mounting distrust in doctors and conventional medicine, growing numbers of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated, not to mention our resurgent passion for self-diagnosis, self-medication and home therapies.

It makes sense that among Bernstein’s irrational fears would be home schooling. His career is philosophy and education; a career that thrives on the indoctination of others into his belief system. Bernstein would likely die if he had to work hard for a week day. Not that there’s anything wrong with philosophy, but he has no clue about politics or the concerns of the average American.

People of the Bernstein political/ideological persuasion are incapable of recognizing what’s going on in American politics. The President can do no wrong and liberal policies are never to blame. Instead, the only time liberals get trounced at the polls it’s because of angry lynch mobs. Where were these angry mobs in 2008 and 2006? Or did racists simply quit going to the polls for two elections?

Obama needs more time to write a book about what to do next.

Where does J.M. Bernstein learn about the Tea Party? His op-ed quotes Mark Lilla frequently. Who is Mark Lilla? Lilla is an expert on the Tea Party because he’s a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the New York Times. Plus, he’s a professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Oh, the humanity!

I won’t lose much sleep over the sophist chattering classes of “higher education.” This class of people has been out of touch for decades. The problem is these are the type of people Obama surrounded with himself for decades (a.k.a., an ongoing “college seminar”). If Obama was only writing books and hanging out with anarchists at the local vegan organic coffee shop commune that would be perfectly fine, but these people have no business running a grocery store lemonade stand, let alone a country.