President Keeps Selling, and We Keep Buying

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

When Swishy stepped before the cameras yesterday, for about the 45,000th time in his still less than four years in office, we were reminded of the strongest distinction between liberals who routinely emote and conservatives who routinely reason.

I almost can guarantee that every liberal in America believes President Obama’s dozens of gun ownership interventions avowed yesterday will save a truckload of lives.

That is as silly as cotton candy.

Let’s just stay with definitions. There is no need here to explore the at least 12 statistical lies about gun control Mr. Obama boasted about throughout his little chat.

I almost can guarantee that every conservative who watched him or read the followup stories knows that Swish’s cynical exploitative nonsense while surrounded by child political pawns will not save one life – not one among 330 million Americans.

Those are impressive odds.

A normative President would not have performed the trained seal-stunt Mr. Obama chose.

First, the overwhelming majority of influential liberals are non- or anti-religious.

From childhood, liberals believe they can control the outcome of the entire planet. All they need do is enact a sufficient number of gasping laws.

Individual freedom is antithetical to liberals. They think in bunches, not in ones.

Second, the overwhelming majority of influential conservatives are actively or passively religious.

From childhood, they are schooled to believe God or a Higher Power controls the world, human beings do not, cannot, no matter how many freedom-diminishing rules they cook up.

It is that uncomplicated.

Swish keeps selling.

Gullible Americans keep buying, paying – higher and higher prices each time he scams them anew while ignoring the meaningless, indefensible, inexplicable rhetorical bullets flying from his pocket-sized firearm.