We Are The DUmmies

[USA4ME]

Don't remember where I copied it from, but when I found this it was titled "We are the Liberals."  For this post, I changed it to "We are the DUmmies," but the rest of it is original.  

We are the DUmmies. We might fancy ourselves to be "progressives" or even “independent thinkers” - yet when the rubber hits the road, we always line up once again behind the Democratic Party, regardless of how they marginalize us.  We might think, "No, no it is just certain good truly liberal Democrats that I support," but then those truly good liberal Democrats endorse whatever candidate the party chooses and then where are we?  Once again we crawl back and submit.

After every election we go through the same drama again about being betrayed and surprised - "why won't Obama be Obama?" people are saying these days.  But after decades of taking the same actions and saying the same things and getting the same results, we must either be very stupid or else not very honest with ourselves and others.

So what are we really fighting for, what do we stand for as liberals, rather than what we say we are fighting for and stand for?

Success and the good life, credentials and status, position and privilege must be protected, at least for people like "us." At the same time, this position and privilege is dependent upon playing a certain role. As Liberals we must pretend that we are for the downtrodden. We must pretend that privilege and position, when held by one of our own, is all earned, and that Republicans and conservatives who have privilege and position attained it because they are greedy and stole it from others. We pretend that introducing "fairness" rules and regimens into our personal life nullifies all of the things we do to attain and preserve the spot we have clawed our way to in society.

Sometimes this balancing act is fairly easy, since there are so many people willing to help us keep up the facade and since reality doesn't intrude into our "reality based" fantasy world.  But once in a while something arises and calls our bluff.

When our bluff is called, there is no amount of time and energy we will spare in internecine warfare arguing fine points of what a liberal is, or what our position should be on each and every minute issue and sub-issue and variations on every issue.  Often, we have difficultly reaching a consensus.

But as liberals, there is one certainty where we have reached a consensus.  But an important component of the consensus is that we never talk about it and we must pretend that it isn't there.  This consensus from which liberals and Democrats operate is this:

We are the better people. We are smarter, we are humane, we are more compassionate, we are better informed. We are better citizens, we are more cooperative and realistic. We are winners, not losers, and we deserve everything we get. Our understanding of spirituality is superior. We are centered and balanced, calm and insightful. We are on the right side of history. We are building a better world.

The general public does not realize that we are the better people, and the ones who should be making the decisions.  Of course the only logical reason for this public oversight is because - "Republicans are able to take advantage of the people's stupidity and ignorance and turn them against us."

As Liberals we understand that most of the problems in the world are the result of stupid people running things.  If "we the smart people" were in charge, all of the problems could be solved with science and technology and rational social planning.

Because of our superiority, we embrace a new paradigm of self-improvement and self-actualization.  Anything that interferes with our focus on ourselves, and our pursuit of creating ourselves as an actualized being, is to be rejected. The way to achieve the perfect society is first to create a perfect self.  Therefore, anyone who attacks our personal choices and personal beliefs is the enemy, and anyone who attacks the social system, which we’ve created for the greater good, is also the enemy.  We will not be held to the social system we created, because we, and we alone, know when it needs to be set aside for the moment.

As fully-realized liberal-progressives we understand that our enlightened self-interest is the ultimate engine of social progress. We care more than those nasty conservatives. Would people rather have an overseer whipping them who cares, or an overseer whipping them who doesn't care? I mean come on, the choice is obvious.

Others, however, who do not share our values are not to be given personal choice, when and as we can prove that their personal choices are wrong, often with our righteous claims that their choice impacts us somehow.  Any variance from our idea as to how people should be is, by definition, the right reason to deny their personal choice.

We believe that we must "be the change we wish to see," and the change we wish to see is more people like us: polite, talented, beautiful, intelligent, calm, successful, clever, enlightened.  So we merely need to be ourselves, focus on ourselves, and serve ourselves. Those who cannot or will not become like us need to back down and get out of the way.

I found it to be 110++% accurate.

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[Carl]

Hard to think of ways to state it any better.

[BadCat]

more people like us: polite, talented, beautiful, intelligent, calm, successful, clever, enlightened.

They must not ever read DU.

[Mike220]

I'm just going to shake my head and back out of the thread slowly.

There's delusional and there's batshit **** delusional (with apologies to Lewis Black).

That's one of the latter. By far.

[GOBUCKS]

Folks, please. That essay is intended as sarcasm. Please, we aren't DUmmies. We shouldn't need to have that stupid "sarcasm" sign. It's embarrassing that it might be necessary.

[USA4ME]

Folks, please. That essay is intended as sarcasm. Please, we aren't DUmmies. We shouldn't need to have that stupid "sarcasm" sign. It's embarrassing that it might be necessary.

Tis true.  The person who wrote this was definately doing it from the perspective of what liberals believe and say to each other about themselves.  Of course, as the writing itself points out, these visions of themselves as the intelligensia are something "we never talk about it and we must pretend that it isn't there," so getting them to admit their true nature is virtually impossible.  This essay is a honest assessment of who and what they really are as opposed to how they would like to be seen; an accurate image which they demonstrate daily when one examines their writings.

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[TheSarge]

They must not ever read DU.

No.  That's really how they see themselves.  To include the DUmmies.

[diesel driver]

  

That's some good, funny stuff right there....