Why Has Camille Paglia Issued A Scathing Opinion...?

Question

of the democrats in her most recent salon piece...

"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers."

"As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration's strategic missteps this year."

"Had more Democrats protested, the administration would have felt less arrogantly emboldened to jam through a cap-and-trade bill whose costs have made it virtually impossible for an alarmed public to accept the gargantuan expenses of national healthcare reform. (Who is naive enough to believe that Obama's plan would be deficit-neutral? Or that major cuts could be achieved without drastic rationing?)"

"By foolishly trying to reduce all objections to healthcare reform to the malevolence of obstructionist Republicans, Democrats have managed to destroy the national coalition that elected Obama and that is unlikely to be repaired."

"Why did it take so long for Democrats to realize that this year's tea party and town hall uprisings were a genuine barometer of widespread public discontent and not simply a staged scenario by kooks and conspirators?"

"But affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why?"

"The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote "critical thinking," which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms ("racism, sexism, homophobia") when confronted with any social issue. The Democratic brain has been marinating so long in those clichés that it's positively pickled."

wow....paglia really lays on the dems...and this lady is a supporter !!!

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009…

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bekind...i hope you had a chance to read the entire article, i was quite stunned at her scathing commentary. she also did one last month i didn't link to....but wasn't anywhere close to this. i've read her pieces for a long time, but she couldn't have hit the nail any better than she has this time....

Answer 1

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Orwell's "1984" has come true in the form of Democratic Party Braindeadness due to Political Correctness. That's what explains how the Ivy League schools can produce such Zombies. The PC shibboleths and mantras must be endlessley regurgitated, and if not the subject is taken to the Ministry of Love and made to remember things more correctly. In the meantime the past is constantly being re-written to accord better with the political needs of the Liberal Elite today.

Example: Now in the age of Howard Dean Vermont world view, gays have become extremely powerful. Anyone who lived through the early 1980's knows that it was common knowledge that the spread of AIDS was largely the result of unprotected promiscuous gay sex (and to a much lesser extent of needle sharing).

These historical facts are not convenient to the Liberal Elite today. So let's just re-write history, and teach that any association made between gays and AIDS is pure bigotry. After a visit to the Ministry of Love, people can be made to remember the past more correctly. So then, they will know not to be bigots.

Zombies. Being taught by people who themselves weren't around in the early 1980's, and don't know shil from Shinola.

PC is a religion. It's a false, made-up religion for people who have no religion but who really need something to believe in. It is centered around universal non-discrimination for any purpose at any time no matter what the facts are. So gays can't be singled out at blood donor centers, and youthful Jordanian males travelling a packs of six can't be singled out at airports. There is absolute equality in all things at all times no matter what. History does not exist, or can be re-arranged, and re-written to suit the mantra.

Paglia -- a creative force of nature -- is right as usual. She just tells it like it is. So she says is startling in a sonambulent society of dream walkers.

I say, Live while awake!

Camille is a cup of strong tea, but good tea. Have some Camille tea every morning if you can; and in the evening, perhaps Camomile.

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My tea cabinet

Answer 2

Sorry, exactly who is Camille Paglia?

Answer 3

Its becoming more and more obvious that this administration is way off in left field and falling into the Pacific. Paglia can no doubt see the destruction of her preferred party and is willing to risk the wrath of the liberal bloggers to make her point. Most of the people coming out in favor of this administration had to be UN Model Club members. They think they are on a mission to save the planet but in reality, they have just been robbed of their of normalcy and common sense and are determined to take it away from everybody else. Not working.

Answer 4

One reason the Dem left me was when money was more important than I was, I am and I was just a vote and shut up.
The Dem are for the poor if it will make them rich.
The lady was seeing as though for the 1st time like I did--we have been dooped and doo doo on.
Look at some of the big contributers to the DNC Trail lawyers and they make billions--GE/NBC who has already gotten money from the Obama Adm. Sorros who will like in England make billions when the dollar goes down in value.
If the Dem are so much into helping the poor, why is there so many poor people after all these years? They keep them poor and give them scraps while they eat at the banquet table, fly private jets (at taxpayers expense) and invest like Barbara Boxer did in Calif. She signs a bill into law and her husband invest 10 MILLION into that co that will benefit from that law and she says it was a coincident.
Nothing from main street media.