Why the Right Really Hates Obama

6/3/26:

Ah, a blast from the past... The website is still in business, and the link's still good. It's worth taking another look at this article.

Not much change in my point of view. The political left wants to make it all about race, but that's not what drives what the left calls "the right". It's pure projection on their part.

You can have a color-blind society. There's no "cynicism" in that. You can have equal opportunity, as opposed to the leftist's equal outcomes. There's no cynicism in that either. What the left won't accept is that you cannot guarantee equal outcomes if you rely upon equal opportunity alone. In other words, people aren't equal. But the left knows that this is true. So I just call bullshit on their ideals and claims of equality. Now that may be called cynicism. But I'd rather refer to it as realism. Nobody strives to be equal. People strive to be better than the other guy. Take away all notions of merit, and you take away incentive. If you take away incentive, achievement suffers. It's been shown again and again. But the leftists push this utopianism nonetheless.

5/10/12:

In These Times

The title really says it all.  It is all about hate, it says.  I can't speak for anyone else, but here's what I said on the subject of hate in this blog.  The second part is this business about "right" v "left".  Again, I refer to what I wrote previously on the subject, which I paraphrase here--- it's not about right or left, but about freedom or tyranny.  In other words, it's not about ideology.

I wrote about ideology too, that it can make you stupid.  What's even more shocking and stupid is that those who are conservative claim to be on the right.  This is playing right into the hands of the left.  It is playing on their turf and it is always the loser.  Therefore, just speaking for myself, I am not on the right.  I am on the side of freedom.  If you are conservative, you stop letting the left box you into their ideology.

By the way, calling them left is appropriate because it is their ideology and evidently they believe in it fervently.

Finally, I remember getting into an argument with some guy on Amazon about conservatism.  I would say that this guy may be someone "on the right" as opposed to being someone who favors freedom.  If his idea is the prevailing notion of conservatism in this country, then I am not a conservative.  But what I think is closer to Reagan than some of what I hear from those who claim to admire Reagan.

I think I understand his success better than some of them do.  If these people ever got a clue, Obama wouldn't stand a chance.