MORE ON THE U.S.S. OBAMA: A Sudden Realization.

The cornerstone of liberal of the liberal self image is the belief that they can sup with the devil and hold their own. They say ”I’m not stupid. I know when to stop.”

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They’re a bunch of authentic geniuses on a runaway train wondering what went wrong. The blindspot that fooled them was basic. They took the terms of the train journey at face value. That made them highly vulnerable to the one man who boards the train for whom ... agreement means nothing at all....

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And so the train thunders down the track. Conservatives by themselves can’t put the brakes on a runaway. To accomplish this they need a coalition with elements of the left; to make common cause among intelligent liberals.

But it won’t happen yet — won’t happen for a long time — despite the evidence of their senses, because they have an almost religious attachment to the Cause. The Left is a religion. It looks away from the obvious sins of its leaders the way earlier generations of churchgoers sometimes averted their gaze from the misdeeds of their own.

It is so central to them that life without it would be meaningless. Leaving the Left is like being a man without a country.... The reason people on the Left can’t rebel isn’t because they cannot bring themselves to doubt Obama. It’s because they can’t bring themselves to stop going to cocktail parties.

The place to get off a runaway train is before it leaves the station ... or better yet, never get on.