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I know this is buried in a pile of letters, so not sure who will ever read it. Not to worry, it's the participating in society that counts.
I rather think that the kind of letters written above validate the claims of those of us who believe that Obama is not really an actual person but a construct or, to paraphrase one quote in the article, a projection of the political fantasy of well-educated but politically unrealistic white people. For Blacks, he is the construct of their hopes and dreams for social legitimacy. That's far more understandable and reasonable.
Young, white, "well-educated" American voters are really, still, young white "well-educated" Americans. And honestly, not being a young American, but having lived as here 20yrs, I believe that there are probably no people groups in the world who are more wide-eyed, self-involved and loathsomely unaware of those facts due to a faux-critical approach to life. They pass off the enjoyment of low-level irony (only if it's funny), self-deprecating kookiness, public discussion of private happenings and being passionate about something they "think" is liberal as a genuinely critical view of the world and thus sort of assume that their perspective is somehow impervious to evaluation. They treat all alternative thoughts at claims with contempt (as witnessed by the horribly narrow-minded conservatism produced by Salon . . . and yes it is "conservative" because it's not open to change). They assume that their ideas are so lofty, so ideal that to doubt them must mean you're some kind of gutter creeping right wing nut job who can't see the depth of the "real" world they so clearly see.
Frankly, young Americans, it makes me want to hurl my lunch to think that you, of all people on the planet, should determine who the next president will be. You with your unbelievable self-centeredness and endless blathering on about yourselves and what you’re feeling. The social issues you discuss drive you to "discuss" them with passion because of how they make "you" feel. What makes me laugh, is your earnestness; you really think that you think. You mistake ceaseless writing and speaking for critical thought. But you're no different from the Reagan youth who only wanted things their way and look where that got us.
If you could drag your eyes from your own navels and look around, you'd see that you're just being ridiculous. Just silly. The only reason I have a problem with that is that you might elect a president with all of your blundering about the political landscape (as if you know where you're going and what you're doing . . . clowns). The whole world will be stuck with your sickening self-involvement trying to tell the rest of is how it needs to be and you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
