Liberal Author: Obama Failed Because He Was Too Centrist

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Non-Centrists and not Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is mainly famous for being the author of “What’s The Matter With Kansas”. A better question might be what’s the matter with Thomas Frank. I’m not sure if this is a theory or a mental illness.

The moral of this story is not directed at Democratic politicians; it is meant for us, the liberal rank and file. We still “yearn to believe,” as Perlstein says. There is something about the Carter / Obama personality that appeals to us in a deep, unspoken way, and that has led Democrats to fall for a whole string of passionless centrists: John Kerry, Al Gore, Michael Dukakis, Gary Hart and Bill Clinton. Each time, Democratic voters are enchanted by a kind of intellectual idealism that (we are told) is unmoored from ideology. We persuade ourselves that the answer to the savagery of the right—the way to trump the naked class aggression of the One Percent—is to say farewell to our own tradition and get past politics and ideology altogether. And so we focus on the person of the well-meaning, hyper-intelligent leader. We are so high-minded, we think. We are so scientific.

We are so insane.

Okay so Obama, the champion of wealth redistribution, tranny rights, mass illegal alien amnesty and unilateral power is too centrist.

I think it’s time that “liberals” just stopped falling for all these centrists who continue to refuse to abolish Congress and rename the country the People’s Republic of Ameristan because they’re so centrist… and perform a voodoo ritual to raise Stalin from the dead.

Finally they’ll have zombie gulags and brain redistribution under the slogan, “Your body didn’t grow that” and the proper liberal leadership they’ve been hankering for.

Or maybe just Warren 2016.

  • Gee

    Wow – am interested in what the author considers “Centrist”. Netanyahu is a left of center, that would make Odumba left of Lenin.

  • Softly Bob

    Daniel, I admire you bit do you really have to make me nearly vomit over my keyboard? Is this some sort of joke? I don’t want to be looking at a picture of that hippy streak of piss, Russel Brand especially when he’s not part of the topic.
    What next, a photo of a naked Lena Dunham (Obama’s Mom’s sister) posted during a topic about ISIS?

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    If John Kerry, Al Gore, Michael Dukakis, Gary Hart and Bill Clinton and even Elizabeth Warren and Hillary are “centerists,” then I’m Queen Victoria come back from the dead to prove she was really a man and a consummate cross-dresser.

  • MrUniteUs1
    • The March Hare

      Minus negative would make a positive. And don’t worry, it will go down when it is adjusted after the election.

      • MrUniteUs1

        Check

  • MarilynA

    These same people claim that Communism failed in the USSR because they weren’t practicing it right, and when practiced in it’s true form it will work. that is the reason they haven’t given up on transforming our government into one with them in charge. Note that Clinton (both Bill and Hillary were waving Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book while they were demonstrating in the 1960s.) gave his beloved Chinese Communist government most favored nation status which allowed them to dump their slave labor made goods in this country duty free, thereby facilitating the transfer of our industrial base to China, which is now engaged in capitalism except when it comes to it’s own people who are still slaves of the communist state.

  • Bryan Schmick

    I’ve long maintained that terms like left, center, and right are somewhat relative to one’s own belief (along with being a poor description of general world views composed of a wide variety of issues). I would really like to ask some of these people who they consider an extreme left winger.

    • dwayne roberson

      Barack Obama in moderate clothing

  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    Further proof that Leftism is mainly a mental illness – unfortunately, there is no cure. Probably the only treatment they will respond to is free people using force to defend themselves from Leftist aggression, perhaps repeated pounding on the head while explaining, “You will respect my right to life, liberty, and property unless you want to get really hurt.” That is in fact what government is supposed to do – protect us from the Thomas Franks of the world.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    Centrist = not revolutionary.

  • dwayne roberson

    Daniel understands the goal posts have been relocated somewhere in the parking lot. The far right is gone but I don’t think it it ever existed as we have been taught. Nazis were central planner leftists. Republicans are liberal apologists, JFK would have been excommunicated today. Incremental excrement, that is what is the progressive playbook is and sorry to say it has been working. Daniel is my favorite teacher and I love it when his tongue cuts like a knife of truth. Fellow poster Edward Cline said it better but I can’t resist. If Obama is a centrist, then I can tell you what Rasputin’s intentions were.

  • dwayne roberson

    Youtube- Rebel Pundit. We all need to talk about this.

  • AbsolutelyRight

    Joseph Stalin was “too centrist” for this leftist imbecile

  • herb benty

    “Centrist”……….from what? Or towards what?

  • TaxiManSteve

    What an unpleasant read…