Calling it like they see it.

"...part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared,"

President Obama during a Democrat fundraiser in Boston.


Democrats aren’t running on the administration’s accomplishments like health-care and financial-regulatory overhaul and the stimulus because “it’s just too hard to explain,” Biden said.

Interview with Joe Biden, Bloomberg.com

" Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them."

Cass Sunstein, OIRA appointee. (Obama's regulatory czar)


“Elections are not the time to educate people. You win the election, then you educate people afterwards.”

Howard Dean in an NPR interview

Above are a few short examples of recent statements made by high ranking Democrat officials that seem to speak to the apparent low intelligence of the American electorate. In numerous interviews, both in print and on television, there are more and more prominent people on the left that display a thinly veiled disdain for the average person. It's one thing to hear the political punditry routinely call anyone in politics with a conservative bent either stupid or lacking in the necessary "gravitas", to use a term used to describe George W. Bush, to be a leader. It's quite another to listen and watch as more and more of the left describes the American people that way. Day after day, we hear more stories centered around the belief that Americans aren't quite smart enough to understand all the good that's being done on their behalf by the President and his Congress. We don't understand the Health Care law, TARP, the stimulus, financial reform or the multitude of other things that have been foisted upon us.

It's actually quite a departure from the Clinton era when Democrats worried that they "weren't getting their message out" when attempting to explain their numerous defeats at the ballot box and through legislation. It appears now that they're getting their message out, we're just too dumb to get it. We're not from ivy league schools or haven't been to the right dinner parties to truly comprehend the brilliance on display before our very eyes. Unaccustomed, as we are, to the heights of the ivory tower that most liberals reside in, we just go about our lives blind to the stunning intellectual elite that seek only to help us live better lives. Not only is ignorance bliss, it's the American way.

The unabashed arrogance on display by the power structure of the left is at times breathtaking in it's openness and shocking in it's belief that the only smart people in the country vote Democrat. If you believe the left, most of America, left to it's own devices, would simply fall apart if not for the pointy-headed professorial types that currently infest the government.

This kind of downward glance from the left isn't exactly new or all that surprising when one takes into account the more recent exertion of Progressive ideals in the Democrat party. In just a few years, Progressives have managed to co-opt the Democrat party and bring the concepts of social and economic justice to the fore in American politics. Early 20th century Progressives were firm believers and vocal proponents of segregation, eugenics and the concept of disallowing certain groups from polluting the genetic storehouse in an effort to breed a smarter electorate. Since those early Progressives weren't able to implement their own "final solution" one must assume the modern electorate isn't as smart as they'd first hoped. The vast majority of those early Progressives came from intelligentsia so it fits that they would try to weed the weak of mind out of the Utopian garden they envisioned for their brave new world.

The modern Democrat party is almost indistinguishable from the early Progressives in their approach to the very people who send them to Washington DC. They mock them, talk down to them and use them as a battering ram to fulfill their ultimate dream of Utopia on Earth. President Obama has made countless references to the American people as of low intelligence, weak minded and afraid to make his vision of the future a reality. This upcoming midterm election will be a tsunami of rejection that will wash many of those elites out of the comfortable posts they have enjoyed and used to their own personal advantage and enrichment.

It's normal for a liberal to think they're smarter than a group of people, it's suicide to articulate those thoughts in an attempt to calm the poor frightened masses who want only to fire up the X-Box, order a pizza and let someone smarter take care of dispensing freedom to the poor unwashed heathens.