The Great Leader exhibits the great Liberal vice of voyeuristic morality, the sign of our times. By vilifying someone else for their lack of virtue, you are thereby cleansed of any virtuous faults in your own nature, even if you keep on doing the same old sins. Obama has relatives living in dire poverty. Is he not his brother’s keeper? He insists that the common tax payer should be, even when the people he claims are their brothers are people they have never met.
Many limousine liberals are morally outraged that “red necks” in Flyover country drive gas-guzzling SUV’s, but feel no guilt when they take a private jet across the globe to go to a party with their enlightened friends, emitting more carbon dioxide than the people who they have such contempt for do in a year.
Its so easy–just decry someone else’s lack of virtue and you are thereby yourself absolved of that sin, forever and forever. Its the new religion of our time.
People seem amazed about how many