Oh, Guiliani and Palin had lots of laughs talking about Barack, the community organizer last night. They belittled it, joked about it, and by the end of the night kind of thought it might be as bad as Alaska wanted to succeed from the union. In the process, they couldn’t have showed their true colors better in the Barack described them in his acceptance speech last week. I will tell you what I mean after the jump.
Remember how Barack described the way Republicans seek to help the American people. Their philosophy is
“Give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickle down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the ownership society but what it really mean is that you are on your own. ‘Out of work, tough luck, you are on your own. No healthcare, the market will fix it, you are on your own.’”
With this mentality and the cold heartiness that makes it possible to support programs that increase income inequity and poverty, it is easy to see how the Republicans would think that community organizing must be totally weird. After all, those people laid off from the steel mills were suppose to be on their own. To go into a community and organize people to help themselves can’t be simple acts of service and altruism, they infer sarcastically.
I think the organizing bit scares them because all the organizing they can think of is their workers organize and demand that more prosperity trickle down.
Obama did a beautiful job last week of describing how the Republicans see the world. I hope he gets pissed and nail them for belittlement of community organizing, and hence, thier complete inability to think about the needs of American people in these tough times. The different perspecitives could not be more apparent.