A friend of mine across the pond pointed me at an article in the Washington Post by Charles Krauthammer (who I’d never heard of before), discussing anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome. The condition he describes is oddly familiar from our last lot of glorious rulers, if only we understood the wonderful things they were doing we’d stop complaining.
“Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science — liberal psychology — Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., vote Republican.
But of course. Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the “New Foundation” of a more regulated, socially engineered and therefore more humane society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them Obamacare, the stimulus, financial regulation and a shot at cap-and-trade — and the electorate remains not just unmoved but ungrateful.
Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the “facts and science” undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high. ”
I’m afraid you have to sign in with facebook or a throw away account to read the whole thing, but it’s quite worth doing, if only for his take on the
rioting in France and the economies of other bits of Europe.
