Migraines for the Left

LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson

With elections come headaches.

Most are inflicted on a skeptical electorate, but some pester those who participate with pandering, promises, and prophecies.

Everyone has their problems these days, but for the Left, one difficulty is how to move to the center without coming across as phony facilitators of a false narrative.

Presently, the public isn’t smitten by what it has heard before; fed up is a more apt descriptor.

For the gaggle of liberals running, there is the problem of what to do about Barack Obama in this election. If they criticize his neurotic policies too much, it tends to support an opposing inclination — the last thing they want — but if they don‘t criticize at all, it appears they have nothing new to offer.

Stating a continuation of Obama’s “vision,” then, is politically hazardous, considering the cluttered nature of it, but political divorce can be disastrous, too, in regard to the liberal/radical base busy adoring the prez’s concentration on social justice even as the nation collides with mediocrity.

Nothing good there for nattering suits teamed philosophically with the pantsuit of the future. How long can one straddle the center line of the political highway before running into the 18-wheeler of voters’ disgust?

I suspect not long, and that becomes the challenge for a party leveraged to the hilt with a brewing public weary of lectures, political correctness, creative tales of economic healing, and international policies bordering on disaster.

Philosophical points don’t pay the bills. Social justice may be a grand ideal, but that is all it is. It doesn’t spell opportunity for junior counting sheep in the basement while his overpriced degree gathers dust on the wall.

So! Look for survivors on the Left to slink cautiously to the center.

This will be followed by numerous polls to see if we are falling for it. If we are, they will travel back to the Left to protect their base whom they both need and fear. Abandonment by said clunker would be disastrous.

No one is better at navigating that pitted road than Hillary Rodham Clinton, former lawyer, cranky First Lady, and senator of a state from which she did not spring.

The ol’ girl always knows her audience and which tone to adapt. She can be equally moderate or liberal, depending on who’s in the folding chairs and which bobble heads are backing the podium.

Know that no matter what her fluid position is on any issue, HRC is not a moderate.

I repeat, she is not a moderate, but that doesn’t mean she can’t wear a moderate costume when the circus is in town.

She is a performer, that Hillary, and a good one, so schooled by Bill, Barry, and a clutch of like-minded. She already knows she can bend the truth to swoon the masses, and she can switch passion on like an old Philco radio.

HRC understands liberal Big Media will leave her alone, and there are others to blame, the oldest dodge in politics. Watch as she swerves from talking point to talking point. Listen as much as you can stand, but compare it to what was once said and to whom it was uttered.

The rhetoric doesn’t always match.

Clinton is a mere whisker less radical than Barack Obama. That’s troubling, considering Obama was the senator farthest Left of all when seated, followed narrowly by Uncle Joe Biden. Look it up.

Hillary would not have been Secretary of State had she not shared Obama’s vision of diplomatic failure. They are birds of a political feather.

Don’t fall for any disassociation forthcoming.

Obama won two elections by speaking in generalities. He talked much about change without explaining what he meant. Now we know Hillary will do the same publicly while plotting privately.

That is who she is.

That is what the Left is.

The problem ahead for Clinton is duplication and boredom.

We have heard it all before, no matter how much that little fist pounds or to whom the manicured finger points. There is only so much more to be said about racism, income inequality, and the phony glass ceiling before the public becomes livid.

Or just plain bored, as in politically catatonic, having heard it all so much and seeing little useful come of it.

After half a century, it is all … so … old.

Aren’t the 1960’s over?

Please let it end.

For your headache, I suggest common aspirin which is also good for your heart.

For the Left, I recommend political amputation to end the pain.