Posted by
Far_view on Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:19:52 PM
Once again Mark Steyn hits the ball out of the park with
this piece
that perfectly captures where Obama was coming from with his "bitter
Americans" comment and why it was so erroneous. He notes that Obama and
so many on the Left seem to think that Americans that vote against
European-style big government are stupid for doing so. They (the Libs)
think that Americans who vote against big government liberals are
voting against their own self interests. However, as Steyn points out:
"Europeans
did "vote for their own best interests" – i.e., cradle-to-grave
welfare, 35-hour workweeks, six weeks of paid vacation, etc. – and as a
result they now face a perfect storm of unsustainable entitlements,
economic stagnation and declining human capital that's left them so
demographically beholden to unassimilable levels of immigration that
they're being remorselessly Islamized with every passing day."
Period. Dot. Bingo.