Over 60 % of Americans approve the job the President is doing and approve of the steps he is taking to confront the economic crisis he inherited from the Republican administration. A majority of Americans also agree that the economic crisis is not the current President’s fault.
And yet, conservatives continue to repeat these totally bogus and unfounded statements that there’s going to be a huge backlash against the President or that Americans are frightened of the direction this country is headed.
There’s apparently a huge disconnect between how conservatives think Americans feel and how Americans actually feel. It’s clear most Americans support the president and do not believe that returning to the taxation system under Clinton is socialism, or that regulating the salaries of bailed-out CEOs is fascism.
Conservative Republicans have clearly lost the trust of the American voter and have become the minority, and yet instead of asking yourselves the really tough questions like “what did we do wrong as a movement/party to have alienated so many Americans” and “how can we adapt to the current climate in order to stay relevant”, conservatives have instead adopted the hysterical position that it’s not conservatives who are the problem, but it’s everyone else, i.e., the vast majority of Americans, who must be ignorant sheep for just not realizing that one day soon President Obama is going to take off his mask and reveal himself as a socialist/marxist/totalitarian/cylon/velociraptor/sith lord, leaving all of us to wonder how a nerdy, pragmatic intellectual family man could have possibly bamboozled us and subsequently trampled our democracy under his boot.
It’s really astounding that this is what conservatives actually believe – that somehow they are blessed with an exceptional intelligence that gives them the unique perspective to understand the evil inherent in our President when no one else can, and further they believe that they have some sort of special calling to be the gun-toting revolutionary heroes who will rise to save America from the marxist/totalitatian/sith empire that will inevitably grip the country now that liberals are in charge. Not only does it sound completely ridiculous to any rational person, but it gives you a really good sense of how conservatives view themselves and their world. They are convinced that their country is being overtaken by satan, that the rest of America (again, the vast majority) is basically satanic-by-association for supporting this administration or at least allowing this to happen, and so therefore they are the only real force for good and must stop the rest of us before “it’s too late”.
In essence, the conservative movement has become a patchwork of varying conspiracy theories and its members are now not much more than conspiracy theorists, snatching blindly at any shred of information, regardless of its truth or merit, that will support their delusion that there is a legitimate aura of evil and hate surrounding the President, his family, his values and his vision for this country.
