What do Adam Lambert, Cass Sunstein, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama have in common? They share it with countless other political leftists – those who can be described, variously, as “liberals” (a euphemism that belies the word’s roots and traditional meanings), as “progressives” (another euphemism that confuses or mislabels as progress what is merely invasive government control), often as “Democrats” and perhaps most accurately as “socialists.” They use the technology of popular culture mass-media - television and, increasingly, streaming/real-time or downloaded video and audio available online, which forms an increasing portion of Americans’ entertainment and news consumption - to tell us, over and over again, what we should think because they think it. This is a fundamental expression of insecurity. It is the need for validation, and it forms the backbone of all left-wing sociopolitical thought.
Never was this need for validation, this intolerance for disagreement, on more public display than since the election of our president. Previously in Technocracy, we discussed the disturbing prevalence of President Barack Hussein Obama on the nation’s television screens. Not content merely to win the election and to govern, Obama seemed, particularly in the first months of his presidency, to be obsessed with inflicting his clucking, stuttering visage on us in every conceivable venue, shrewdly using and then not so wisely overusing the power of technology to pervade American popular culture Full Piece
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