I am finally coming to understand the hatred that the American Left has for Sarah Palin. Palin does not fit the victim image that the Left projects on womanhood. She is not dominated by her husband. She is not cowed by male politicians. She does not need entitlements and free passes to get where she is going. She is an inherently strong and independent person whose accomplishments are her own.
That is what threatens the worldview of the Left. The women of the Left insist on whining their way to independent strength, which is why they are still whining, still not strong, still not independent. In fact they resent any woman who really is those things, who comes to power through actual accomplishment rather than through entitlement legislation.
So it becomes imperative to attack with feline ferocity all the aspects of a woman who doesn’t fit the victimhood mold.
The attacks on Palin, her family, her accomplishments show the inbred logical dislocations in the crystallized, hardened, monolithic minds of the Left. The “subjugation of women” is a necessary construct for the continuation of the whining of the Left; so the image of women as weak, suppressed, abused who cannot perform without entitlement legislation and free passes must not be by-passed by the true innate strength of a person like Sarah Palin. The Left has institutionalized the inferiority of women into its worldview, a view it will fight to protect.
It is the same as for designated minorities such as blacks and Hispanics and is a means of perpetuating the suppression that is perceived. Without suppression, the heroic image of perpetual rescue is meaningless. The class struggle fails completely.
Palin is hated because she puts the lie to the fables promoted by the divas of self-pity. She is more capable, so she is culpable. The myth of the inferiority of women is threatened, and the feminist institution itself is endangered of being rendered obsolete by this one single person. She must not be allowed to do so. She must be suppressed, and NEED the entitlements offered by the heroic Leftist rescuers.
So she is falsly portrayed as stupid, racist, immoral, inexperienced, homophobic, anti-this-and-that and smeared at every turn. Some of the smears will stick in the weak minds of the undecided, so the thinking goes. Whatever it takes to discredit her.
But a truly strong person will survive such onslaughts of sewage tsunamis from the Left. I think Palin will survive and thrive.
It is not impossible to envision a presidential contest between two women in the future, one an inveterate socialist rescuer, the other a strong independent constitutionalist. Now THAT would be an interesting race.
2 comments:
Incorrect. I cannot stand Palin for very different reasons, including (but not limited to) her utter ignorance and disdain for science and general anti-intellectual stance.
If by "anti-intellectual" you mean anti-philosophical materialist, as most do who complain of anti-intellectualism, then she probably is, as are 96% of the other Americans. Those who complain of anti-intellectualism generally consider themselves intellectuals, yet are bound up in agendas impregnable by logic. My experience is that very few self-appellated intellectuals have actually studied logic and rational thought and fewer still (none, in my experience) actually apply the principles to their own ideas.
I once did a search on an large Atheist website which was full of talk about critical thinking. There were >>29,000 references to "critical thinking" and only 5 references to "critical thinking principles" and its permutations; of the 5, none gave specific principles.
Self-designated "intellectuals" are highly prone to believe they are totally rational yet show no attempt to actually test their own logic. Their unconditional belief in their own rationality is actually a rationalization.
As for Palin's "utter ignorance and disdain for science", I suspect that you might be referring to her "fruit fly" comment, which actually was a strike at sending U.S. taxpayer $$ to Paris, France to do fruit fly experiments. Beyond that, I think your charges are general, without sources, and not arguable. If you'd care to be specific, then we can talk; general, undocumented charges are of no value.
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