Ronald Reagan once said the following:
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
That has never been more obvious than today. All the cultured elite prognosticators in the UK believed that David Cameron was in serious political jeopardy. Most predicted that Ed Milibrand, the leader of Labour would be the next prime minister. At best, they considered the election too close to call. If Cameron somehow managed to stay Prime Minister, he would be too weak to effectively govern.
The following article in the Guardian UK was published just two days ago:
The following predictions were spectacularly wrong:
“The final stretch and we find ourselves pretty much where we started at the beginning of the campaign – in stalemate. This election represents what happens when a country is unconfident about its economic future, unsure of its place in the world, and fed up with the state of its politics.”
Or
“the only scenario where Cameron would remain in place would be if Labour have an awful night, combining a bloodbath of losses to the SNP with a failure to take large numbers of seats from the Lib Dems and Tories.”
Conservatives not only won, they won big and now have a solid majority. It was exactly the liberal bloodbath the prognosticators believed to be impossible.
Liberals always believe that everyone with any intellect will agree with them. They can’t fathom the possibility that some really smart people think they are wrong about nearly everything. That is why liberals often underestimate Republican candidates as being naïve and uninformed. The reality is that every Republican currently running or considering running for President is smarter than Hillary Clinton.
In the UK the polls did not now show the results liberals expected, so they adjusted the polls. One will note that the same thing happened last fall here in the U.S. . No pollster predicted the sweeping victory by Republicans in the 2014 election. This was not because the data was not there, it was. It was because the data was adjusted, incorrectly, to reflect the liberal world view.
There is a lesson here for all of us. The cultured liberal elite are wrong about nearly everything. It would be foolish to expect them to be brilliant at predicting elections. They aren’t. Hillary Clinton is a fatally flawed candidate. That is really obvious to anyone paying attention. If the Democrat establishment doesn’t pick up on the obvious pretty soon, Hillary is likely to take the few remaining shreds of the Democratic Party down with her.
Liberals in the UK are reeling from an unexpected and unprecedented slaughter at the polls. At least in Great Britain liberal recognize defeat when they see it. The current leaders have resigned and there is a desperate search for new liberal leadership.
We should point out that even the liberals who just resigned in the UK are all a lot younger than liberal Democrats here in the U.S. Hillary Clinton who is not exactly a spring chicken with fresh ideas. If she fails, the names mentioned most often are…wait for it…John Kerry and Bernie Sanders. Who said liberals don’t believe in fossil fuel.
TDM