Elitism Rolls On

Obama on the Pantybomber

"This was a screw up that could have been disastrous," the president said during a meeting in the White House situation room, according to the White House media office. "We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals not because the system worked and that is not acceptable. While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it."

First of all, he "will not tolerate" any "finger-pointing" but he’s pointed out that it was an intelligence failure, which means he himself is pointing fingers at the CIA. Sure, the CIA fucked up, but what’s wrong with the rest of us saying so? The idiot makes no sense.

Secondly, like all liberals, he has again expressed his over-reliance and faith in a "system" rather than individuals. Liberals believe we need a new health care "system" because they don’t think individuals should be responsible for their own choices. We need security "systems" rather than creatively thinking people with good judgment. We need global "systems" of governance to control what people make and emit and buy and sell and build and burn. The strengths and abilities and God-given capacity for reason are more effective, but less governable, and therefore their exercise, even in positive ways, isn’t as desirable as a top-down infrastructure operated by ivy-league intellectuals and one-worlders.

The amazing part is that not once in human history has a centrally-controlled oligarchy produced a society based on freedom, prosperity and personal property. And yet this kind of intellectual, elitist arrogance persists.