Liberal Arrogance is Authentic

In the latest issue of Time Magazine (from Real Clear Politics, remember I cancelled my subscription to Time), Joe Klein authors a piece entitled Ignorance as Authenticity, and  subtitled Why Do Some Idolize Ignoramuses Like O'Donnell.  Like a dog with a new chew toy, media elites just can't get enough of O'Donnell/Angle/Palin, or anything else that seems foreign to them, i.e., conservative women.  Just ask Meg Whitman.  Joe tries to explain to us that these "Tea Party know-nothings"are absolutely unqualified to join the Washington elite because they aren't really smart enough, and because they don't agree with him or Obama.

"There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts," he writes.  "It is a society that no longer takes itself seriously."  Didn't our president just admonish us recently in a speech for not being serious about his transformational reform of government?  Mr. Klein goes on to say that we don't get Obama because his policies are "abstruse."  Abstruse is defined as difficult to understand.  In other words, it's not that we disagree with Obama's policies because they are an anathema to our values and ideology, it's the fact that we are simply too stupid to understand or comprehend them.  Further translation; the American people are too obtuse to grasp the wisdom of Obama.