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by Jed Lewison
Can you imagine a more condescending and arrogant approach than telling people that they reason they don't support you is that they don't understand you?
...Romney is still speakingand he managed to elicit boos from the crowd, which had been quite polite, when he used "Obamacare" as a term of derision.
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RagAss
(13,832 posts)underseasurveyor
(6,428 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)I believe stewardship of the "inferior" races is/was a large part of the mormon doctrine.
Windy
(5,944 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,209 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)"and if it were possible to fully communicate" OMG
Seems this full of it snob has a hard time with a lot of places and different groups where he has campaigned .
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)They really, truly believe that blacks in America don't vote Republican, because blacks "have trouble thinking critically," or that they are "trapped on the democratic plantation," or are otherwise mentally hindered by not being white.
I've never seen it stated so blatantly to their faces at Mitt just did though. Never. And by a presidential candidate? Wow. Fucking WOW.
Someone needs to condense this into a good message to beat the fuck out of him with.
anAustralianobserver
(633 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2012, 07:58 PM - Edit history (1)
I think in his case it must be a religious thing as well as a money-elite thing to be able to look at and speak to people like that - with that soft-spoken, father-knows-best attitude - as if they are his children or congregants in his church.
That kind of personality only charms the most authoritarian and socially delayed. To anyone else it's viscerally creepy!
anAustralianobserver
(633 posts)help lead to the real Jesus and Jesus' real party, the 'free'-market GOP.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)I think they understand him fine.
He's a man who believes that being rich entitles you look down on people who aren't. It means you're better and smarter then them. That you're a God and they're little more than bugs to be stepped. Everything you have is deserved and everything they have no matter how meager is unearned for which, by the way you owe the rich a debt of gratitude.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's couched, somewhat, in a statement to the effect of "I'm not doing a good enough job communicating who I really am" sort of way.
But taking it that way is no better - "I'm not able to make myself understood".
Because, really Mitt, actions speak louder than words when it comes to who you are.
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)I actually thought this was a joke until I played the video.
His desperation has gotten the best of him. He's done for now.
soccer1
(343 posts)If he did, he wouldn't be speaking to them as if they were toddlers who don't understand what's in their best interest. His arrogance is astounding. Whew.
Drale
(7,932 posts)how can you expect anyone else to understand you?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)cindyperry2010
(846 posts)go over real well calling people stupid
sarge43
(28,946 posts)PatSeg
(47,711 posts)some shots of the audience. I would have loved to have seen the facial expressions.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)don't really understand what's going on.
ohgeewhiz
(193 posts)"repeal Obamacare"
This is the real dog whistle as to what he thinks of black folks in general, and those in leadership positions in the NAACP, in particular.
The blatant racist knee-JERK thinking inherent in this comment from Romney is incredibly revealing.
I hope the media picks up on this, even more than the obvious "repeal Obamacare" promise he made.
Romney is a 21st century incarceration of 19th century slave-owner thinking ..
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)your problem is that people DO understand you. Well at least thinking people, the rest just vote for whomever karl says to.
liberal N proud
(60,351 posts)RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)And goodness, he sounds so wooden and artificial
madashelltoo
(1,705 posts)He came for the boos he got. That will make his hate-filled right wing element very happy. Knowing he stood in front of a room filled with educated African Americans and insulted them goes a long way in his camp. Robme's problem lies in the fact that he is a courageous LIAR. His lies don't simply encompass the African American, Latino populations; it's also directed toward the white community. It's not like he's coming to their house and saying something different. No, he's telling them the same pack of lies he's telling everyone else. If he wins, and I don't believe he will, the only consolation for African Americans and Latinos will be the priceless expression of surprise on the faces of those who supported him as we all go down the fucking drain together.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)of the little people who don't understand how the system works. I wonder if that rich socialite from the Hamptons wrote his speech.
soccer1
(343 posts)that Mitt lifted his "sentiments" from the Hampton Range Rover woman. According to Hampton lady, she's hoping Mitt will do a better job of communicating how bad Obama's polices are for the "common people". Poor Mitt....just can't find the words to adequately express how concerned he is about the well being of the commoners. How ridiculous he sounds.
RZM
(8,556 posts)'If only you'd wake up and see things how I do, you'd understand that I'm the shit.'
Nothing new there.
We forget how ego-driven politics is. You don't get in unless you believe you're super-awesome.
I'm not usually one for blanket cynicism, but this is one area where it's appropriate. Scratch a politician (or a hardcore ideologue, for that matter) and you'll find somebody who thinks that in a perfect world their every belief would be vindicated.
soccer1
(343 posts)point out time and time again why their way is the best way to put America on the right path. . But, Romney's just arrogant....actually, I'm not even sure that's the best word to describe him. I believe he is truly clueless about what the needs are of any person who is not within his social circle. I don't think he can relate in any way to the "others".....not even in an academic way. He has no understanding...from the gut or from intellectual pursuit. He can't even fake it. Fascinating but sad.
RZM
(8,556 posts)They all think that if people would just wake up, they'd see the right path. And it's not just politicians. All hardcore ideologues see things that way, including here.
soccer1
(343 posts)my way or the highway, thinking. And most certainly it is not just politicians who suffer from this "condition".
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)Mz Pip
(27,456 posts)Pretty soon you'll find yourself in China where you offshored all those jobs.
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)for Lucy, in Peanuts: "I'm frustrated, inhibited, and no one understands me!"
Wonder what made me think of that...
quaker bill
(8,225 posts)...It might hurt for a few decades... but in the long run you will be better off for having survived it....
The fascinating thing is that this is probably not racist at all, as it likely includes all the "common people" who "just don't understand how systems work", per one of his wealthy contributors the other day.
If we only understood how the privledged class really has our best interests at heart, and how the suffering they will cause will make us "better people" over the very long haul, we would vote for them.
It is a new flavor of greed, the "patriotic greed". "I am only taking all this money for the good of the country". What you see may seem like amoral behavior, but trust me, "I have your best interest at heart".
Rationalization is an interesting dysfunction.