Arrogance

Have you ever watched a little kid try to act like a big kid?  See them straighten their spine, look right at you, use adult words, deliver them with anger or a sneer or disgust or all of the above?  When this happens one can wonder, where did this kid learn this behavior?   Who taught the kid that the way to be an adult is to huff and puff and shout and act tough?

 

Well, this essay is about the people who teach kids how to deflect and depress fear.  Behind the kids actions is fear - very, very high levels of pure fear. 

 

What happens when you cover up fear - let it control you - instead of facing it?    Anger, sarcasm, secrecy, disdain, withdrawal, most of all, arrogance.  Examples, please.

 

The Daley boys in Chicago have mastered the art of letting fear control them.  Their successor, Emanuel, is getting there. 

 

In Washington DC, the last president was good at letting fear control all aspects of his behavior.  That character flaw in the Bush kid has cost America a lot - it has destroyed a lot of lives and families; perhaps more than any American since Lyndon B. Johnson.  Many of those lives and families are not Americans.  It also started us on the debt bandwagon.

 

if you watch politicians closely, you will see the consequence of suppressed fear - the one sure sign, the more they talk, the more fear they are suppressing.  Four senators immediately come to mind - McCain, Durbin, Graham and Schumer.  All they do is blather - about darn near anything and everything - as if they have a clue about everything and anything.  What they show us is their deep seated fear and how it controls their behavior.

 

We are witnessing the fear of bureaucrats - some have been caught in their know nothing - say nothing - be accountable for nothing way of life. Publicly caught.  Bureaucrats will do anything to not be exposed.  This way of life is fear based - there is no comfort in acting as if you are doing something worthwhile when you know you are useless and unneeded.  You could come clean - fess up - admit to whatever nonsense you have been doing or pretending to be doing - or you can get your back up - look your challengers right in the eye and say, "I did nothing wrong."  Reminds one of,  "I am not a crook."  Or, "I did not have sex with that woman."

 

Government bureaucrats are the most unneeded fear based fools we have and we have millions of them.  For the last four years they have been offered spectacular cover for their unneeded and damaging behavior by one person - Barack Obama.   Barack needs their unions to support him - heck, his entire political party depends on government union life support.

 

Barack Obama has not even attempted to manage the bureaucrats and the bureaucracies.  And he knows it.  But, as long as they vote for him and get the others to vote for him, he could care less what they do.  Just don't bring it to his doorstep.  For over four years, American media, what we call the Hollywood media, has provided cover for this corrupt man and his corrupt practices -  behavior that he learned watching those Daley boys cover up their fears.   The Daley boys have destroyed the financial condition of a city, a county and a state.  Most of us would be a bit spooked with that on our record.

 

Arrogance - be it Daley arrogance or Obama arrogance (really, Axelrod arrogance, Obama is a mouthpiece) - be it McCain or Schumer arrogance or the unneeded bureaucrats at the departments of justice, state and defense (or, for that matter, the IRS), it all comes down to this one simple connection - cover up of fear.

 

They do not know what they are doing - they are perched on the top of a house of cards - they don't want it to collapse on their watch - so they huff and puff and hope that we will think they are in charge.  That they are needed.  That they know what they are doing.

 

How would you like to live a life based on hiding out from your fears?  Would it make you act arrogantly?  Be secretive?  Huff and puff?  Act as if you know what you are doing when you don't?