"It's super-good news for
America and the rest of the world. The White American - whom McCain calls Joe
the Plumber or Palin calls Joe Sixpack - is no longer blinded by lies …The
White American male has closed himself off from old-fashioned ideology and has
entered the rational era. The White American is no longer fooled."
Senator Barack
Obama: His breathtaking rise to prominence fascinates the world. It
appears that what many have called his 'professorial style' is just what
Americans feel they need.
The American is not always a cretin,
it must be said. Having covered Bush’s reelection campaign four years ago, I
saw how that debilitating cocktail of “gay
marriage-abortion-family-religion-terrorism,” mixed into the cauldron labeled
“moral values broth,” moved entire states into W’s column.
The “true”
American, according to conservative mythology, is White, with family,
patriotic, extremely religious, hates socialism, communism, foreigners and
paying taxes. He is so naive that he believes he can save America by attacking
Iraq and, at any rate, he has invested himself in a mission: to export his
model to other people (without asking their opinion).
This American, if
he ever existed, no longer exists. This is the terrible discovery that McCain
and the Republicans have just made. And it's super-good news for America and
the rest of the world. It is five days before the election and the situation
has become clear. Obama is going to win because the America to whom McCain and
Palin are speaking just isn't hearing anything they’re saying.
The White
American - whom McCain calls Joe the Plumber or Palin calls Joe Sixpack - is no
longer blinded by lies. He has seen the war in Iraq and is suffering through a
crisis, while Republicans spouting about abortion, taxes or an American victory
in Iraq no longer move him. The latest poll shows that half of White men are
going to vote Democrat. For the first time in thirty years!
They want someone
who speaks concretely, calmly, moderately: in the center. They refuse to scorn the
intellectual, the notorious “elite” that the McCain camp denounces - Obama
graduated from Harvard. They refuse to be afraid (of bin Laden, of the enemies
of America, etc.) The White American male has closed himself off from
old-fashioned ideology and has entered the rational era.
Indeed, it was a
Republican President Ronald Reagan, who intelligently said: “Whatever else
history may say about me when I am gone, I hope it will record that I appealed
to your best hopes, not your worst fears.” The White American is no longer
fooled. Just because Sarah Palin is a super-mom (five kids), governor of Alaska
- and is also sexy - does that mean Americans should identify with her? The men
allowed themselves to be seduced a bit in the beginning, but the crushing majority
of women didn't fall for biological blackmail. American women aren't voting for
Palin. And if one day they choose to vote for a woman, it will be for her
ideas, not for her “feminine nature.” The Women’s Lib movement finally won the
battle, female voters are, after all, as good (or better) than any other voters
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The Black
American has also been emancipated in this extraordinary adventure. He has
overcome his suspicion of an almost-White Obama who refuses to talk in terms of
Black or White, of minorities and of quotas, and of recriminations and hatreds.
Who doesn’t speak “ghetto” but who expresses himself like any chic Harvard
professor. And the crowds of African-Americans are rushing to vote early, with
an absolute enthusiasm for this candidate who doesn’t speak in the old clichés
of the Black community. And as they say, they too are rational: they're proud
but they aren’t voting for him because he’s Black. They just like the
candidate.
2008 ELECTION
FUN: AN EXPERIMENT IN REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY
We can continue
this tour of real Americans - and not those dreamed up by the conservatives.
The Hispanic American is rushing to the polls. The 44 percent who voted for
Bush in the last election have changed their minds: Hispanics are overcoming
their traditional antipathy toward Blacks and are putting Obama-Biden signs on
their lawns, putting bumper stickers on the back of their cars. They will
probably tip some of the states that are wavering, and if not this time, they
will be in four years, given the rising demographics of these new Americans.
Finally, the
young American, the young American. They don’t want an arrogant and hated
America. They don’t want a rambling old White man. They don’t care about color.
They want hope. Solidarity. The Republicans retain their bastions in the rural
areas and among religious extremists, nostalgics and probably some racists. But
their power is dissolving. America is deeply preoccupied with altering the
entire political map. The Republican red between the two blue Democratic coasts
has melted. The Republicans will lose about 60 senate seats - and the majority.
There aren't two Americas. Only the Americans. And they have - as the winner of
the Nobel Prize for economics, Paul Krugman, says - rediscovered the virtue of
“seriousness” in the face of a world that seems to be crumbling.
[Editor's Note: The
Republicans risk losing their ability to filibuster bills proposed by the
Democratic majority. In the U.S. Senate, a supermajority of 60 senators is
required to end a filibuster. Democrats hold a majority 51 seats and are aiming
to increase that to 60 seats in the Nov. 4 election].
