Reply #43: Ideologues are clashing with personality-cultists

[PurityOfEssence]

Your post title is dead on. Whether fair or not, people had assumptions that he was farther left than he is, and this is sparking all sorts of emotions and reactions.

Hopefully a lesson will be learned here: that being all things to all people works for only a certain period of time.

What's amusing about your post is the also very correct observation that certain individuals would defend him REGARDLESS of whether he tacked left, right or sailed off the falls. Those are ones who are enrapt with the cult of personality, and I can only think of those famous drawings that look like unfiltered 3-d, the ones in blue and red.

Personality cultists have their ego so wrapped up with being correct, that all sorts of transgressions can be explained away, and the tougher ones must be crushed forthwith out of embarrassment. Meanwhile, the ideologues have a set policy belief that MUST hold sway, and when it's given short shrift, they go nuts.

Shortly, we'll see where he really stands on many of these issues, as well as which are priorities. He's bound to piss some people off, but it might be more of a dose of liberalism than is currently expected. We shall see VERY SHORTLY.

Much of these points of view are stubbornly ego-driven, but many of them are sincere beliefs.

What's amazing about this whole campaign is that people bought the concept that a Chicago politician with more than ten years of serious politickin' under his belt was going to bring some new, sunshiny kind of truth and light to our dark and dismal world, yet the methods were the same old ones: duck controversy, sit on fences, play to the emotions and promise the moon. For all its constant refrain of being "new" and "changey", this campaign has been decidedly by the numbers.

The expectations are simply too high all around, and that's not just a big collective mistake, we were led to believe them.