Liberal Victimhood: A Game You Can Play at Home

by Ann Coulter - January 28th, 2009 - Human Events

When Gov. David Paterson ended the Kennedy soap opera by appointing Democratic congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, her Democratic colleague, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, blanketed the airwaves, threatening to challenge Gillibrand in the next election because of her NRA-approved stand on guns.

McCarthy explained, "My voice is for the victims."

Ann Coulter has nailed the Democrat Party with her new book. Victimhood has been sold by the socialist teacher's unions to two generations of Americans. Though it does not mean all Americans subscribe to this silly whining philosophy, it does provide the margin that got Obama 2% more votes for President than Bush got four years before. In a democracy that has abandoned its Republic based constitution, that is all it takes.

This allows us to agonize over the HORROR of 7% unemployment as if it equals the 19% unemployment rate that FDR had 10 years after he was made President. FDR was "great" according to liberals yet he repeatedly killed economic recovery by his stupid socialist (and as Mussolini bragged, fascist) programs of failure. Towards the end his own Treasury Secretary Morgenthau lamented "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work ... After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!"

There will be times in the future when people will look back at today and wonder what caused the panic. It is sad, but the exeggerated panic is leading to actions whose economic results will make today look like great times. Not just good, great.

The Democrat glorification of victims, and the exaggeration of their plight, is an evil method of manipulation dedicated to gaining undeserved political power.