Middle Class — Say It Fast as You Can, Before It Disappears

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

If today’s Democrats had lived in 1911 instead of 2011, when scarcely any technology was available, you could picture this obsessive-compulsive scene:

Hordes of angry left-wing boys on their knees and hands, fanned out across the spacious backyards of America, clutching an expensive magnifying glass in each fist, desperately searching for evidence that a Republican recently may have passed by.

They do that even today, you know. Any conservative above the grade of Neighborhood Watch Junior Captain is obsessively spied upon by liberal Gotcha volunteers, seeking to catch him in an off moment.

Just this morning, I heard a Democrat strategist named David Mercer make the following statement on a syndicated radio program:

“Since last Wednesday’s Republican forum in Simi Valley, I only have heard a Republican mention ‘middle class’ twice.”

Mr. Mercer was as serious as a bridegroom in struggling to say that liberals are compassionate and conservatives, such as President Perry, are not. (Or have you missed the sudden surge of anti-Texas stories littering the media?)

Normally, you would not expect such a foolish statement from anyone over the age of 10 who can tie his shoelaces in the dark.

Every day, my email, and perhaps yours, is jammed with bulletins from left-wing, conspiracy-oriented watchdog groups who quote Republican mutterings to their wives during pillow talk, and who believe that President Bush and Vice President Cheney operated in league with evil forces and, if justice were fair, would be doing time on remote Devil’s Island until they draw their final breaths.

But They Are Serious

Sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch from the old days, but this is why the boys on the Angry Left wear sandals — so they won’t be heard while spying on conservatives, from their bedrooms and bathrooms to their offices and their cars.

This is Swish’s mindset. Or didn’t you read his 960th recycling of a Ya Gotta Believe Me speech before Congress last Thursday?

If you are a liberal, you believe that the more frequently you employ the phrase ‘middle class’ — not non-rich or non-poor — the more compassion you are showing, the more converts you are winning to the liberal cause.

Unless you have shot to death your radios, televisions iphones and Android 3Ds, you know that Swish (Lawdy, How I Love Class Warfare) has ordered his shrinking legion of disciples to include “middle class” at least four times in every public pronouncement to prove how much empathy you have for the masses of gullible Americans.

We (?) Are Getting Smaller

Moments ago, the left-wing huffingtonpost.com posted one of its favorite kinds of screaming stories headlined, seriously:

“As Middle Class Shrinks, Products Begin to be Tailored to Rich and Poor”

Billboarding another one of their piping hot stories from an uncredited source, HuffPo breathlessly puffed and huffed this message:

“As the American economy struggles to shake off a torpor that threatens to drag the country back into recession, the gap continues to grow between the nation's richest citizens and everybody else”

How would the left survive with using the clichéd term “gap”?

As you know, the Angry Left’s favorite daytime toys include the gap between white boys and non-white boys in public schools, the wage-scale gap between us he-men (Me, Tarzan, You, Nuthin’) and defenseless women, the between the rich and the lazier, and that old standby, the racial gap in every human dimension.

One of the looney left’s most overused gimmicks is the dreaded word “disproportionate.”

If you read the newspapers, you know that the Israel Defense Forces are the only military operation on earth that uses disproportionate firepower against the helpless, innocent, religious and unfailingly honorable 21 countries of Arab terrorists that smilingly encircle the Jewish state.

Liberal racists — did you catch the ugly Julian Bond’s July 25 NAACP Convention diatribe in Los Angeles on C-Span yesterday? — believe that if conservatives organize, black liberals should arm themselves.

The Huffington Post’s borrowed story this afternoon went on to point out in the second paragraph that Americans who hustle own more property than the lazy. My word, as my aunt would say.

“As of 2010, the richest 20 percent of the U.S. population control 84 percent of the wealth.”

Which brings me to a loopy liberal editorial this morning in the Daily Breeze, which applauded Swish’s recycled talk last week.

Ninety-nine weeks of unearned checks for lazy men and women is insufficient, says the Breeze, which foolishly advocated:

“Extending unemployment benefits to prevent the millions who are looking for work from being cut off.”

Then the unemployment rate may soar to 12 percent before Swish shoots for re-election.