Pajama Boy Nation... Victor Davis Hanson. A sample:
Pajama Boy is the bookend to vero possumus, the faux-Greek
columns, the Obama rainbow logo, cooling the planet and lowering the
seas, hope and change, Forward!, “Yes, we can!”, the Nate Silver
infatuation, Barbara Walters’ “messiah,” David
Brooks’ crease, Chris Matthews’ tingle, and the army of Silicon techies
who can mobilize for Obama but not for Obamacare. These are the elites
without identities who feed on the latest fad. They are the upper-crust
versions of those who once mobbed stores to buy the last Cabbage Patch
Kids doll, or had to have a pet rock on their dresser. Obama, after all,
was the lava lamp and Chia Pet of the young urban progressive.
If I were to focus on just two of the many characteristics of Pajama
Boy nation in the Age of Obama, one would be that the consequences of
one’s ideology apply always to someone else. Obama obsesses on
inequality, but cannot even go through the populist motions of avoiding
Martha’s Vineyard, or not dressing like a nerd for golf at the latest
tony course.
He is an arugula-eating man of the people who tries to bowl only
during election season. Michelle rags on the 1%, but still hits Costa
del Sol and Aspen. Obamacare for us; for congressional staffers and
insiders something quite different. A Nobel Prize and a half a billion
dollars for guru Al Gore; and dumping Current TV on a fossil-fueled, anti-Semitic authoritarian Middle Eastern regime to fund more good work of our green Elmer Gantry.
Amnesty for illegal aliens, but private academies for liberal kids far
from the ensuing chaos of the public schools. Pajama Boys are fiercely
liberal so that they can fiercely avoid the people they so champion and
are so afraid to live among.
Second, the architects of Pajama Boy nation always expect others to
go on despite rather than because of them. The frackers must frack so
that Obama can brag about their productivity, while he bites his lip and
looks pained to billionaire coastal benefactors about pumping liquid
into the bowels of their Mother Earth.
Go read.
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