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In reply to the discussion: Cornel West on the President [View all]ellenrr
(3,864 posts)I could break it down for you.
Is it the vocabulary? You do know what delusion means, what savior means?
Deluded means a person believes what is not true. So for a person who thinks drone attacks on civilians (to take one example) are a good thing, then it is not delusional to find Obama a president in line with their beliefs and ideology.
But for a person who does NOT favor drone attacks on civilians (my assumption is that this is true for most on DU, I could be wrong), then to support a chief executive who carries this out, and say that that person is a progressive is delusional thinking.
Really, this is not rocket science here.
Likewise the savior complex is that once people elect a leader, he or she is going to save them. This is a thot I disagree with. That is not pompous, nor superiority, that is my opinion.Other people have different opinions- they think that having elected a Black person, in whose background they can find some strands of progressive thinking, is all they have to do, now they sit back and wait for him to save them.
What part do you not understand?
btw, opinions are not superior or inferior- they just are.