Here’s an interesting article on the BBC website.

“Obama’s administration made a tremendous mistake by not immediately branding the economic collapse that we had just had as the Republicans’ Depression, caused by the Bush administration’s ideology of unregulated greed. The result is that now people blame him.”

The problem is, the left doesn’t play like that (whether you think the collapse was the Republicans’ fault or not), even if the average voter would eat that right up. The left prides itself as intelligent and intellectual (not to say I haven’t met some intelligent and intellectual conservatives), and above all that. They want to reach across the aisle and hold the conservatives’ hands. Sounds like an ivory tower. As Mao said, politics is war. And despite having a majority in the senate that could not be filibustered, the Democrats couldn’t pass the big stuff. Sure, there’ll be excuses on why it didn’t happen (some very good, actually), but the end result is failure. If the situation was reversed I doubt the conservatives would give a damn about working with Democrats. They somehow seem to be able to move in lockstep towards their greater good.

On a somewhat related note, I think many liberals assumed Fox News, known for generalizations like the quote above, would kind of just go away, or remain a niche product, and yet it’s actually become quite popular, despite how much the liberals bitch about it on the internet. Arrogance or naivete?