I guess that you have been following the recent Obama campaign speeches about the price of gas. He seems to be promoting the position that the reason that oil is going up is that "some one" is driving the price up by speculating on the price of oil so as to make profit for themselves. His followers look at themselves as victims of some big international conspiracy in the oil industry. They are not sure who the ones are who are doing this bad thing to them, but they are sure that they are the victims. Obama is no dummy and know how to tap into this whole business of victimization. His good pastor for 20 years, Rev. Wright, made a career out of convincing his followers that they too were victims and that he was the one who was going to help them "get even". It seems like a common denominator that most of the followers of Obama are either victims or do gooders who are going to take it onto themselves to help those victims get what is their fair share. Another common denominator with this group is that they don't seem to connect reward with responsible preparation, discipline and hard work along with a little good luck. They seem to accept the luck part, but not the other factors. It is always some person or group who victimizes them. They never see their own actions or decisions as the factors that have resulted in their state. I see a lot of college graduates who are so green with envy about their poor economic performance that they have to hide behind seeing themselves as victims rather than their own actions. Anyone can be a victim if they are an intellectual coward and not able to face the facts of life. How about a story?
My parents and grand parents came thur the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl all at the same time. This was after the flu epidemic of 1918 where many died because they were of Native American heritage and had little resistance. They were much worse off than any of those who claim to be economic victims to day. The difference was that they were not victims and did not blame anyone or group for their situation. They did not try to get even with anyone because they did not feel that it was any ones fault. When my grand mother was given a sack of potatoes, she did not feel that she deserved that sack of potatoes and only kept part of the sack of potatoes. She took most of the potatoes to her church so that they could be given to people who were in worse situation than she felt she was. The facts were that she was in worse shape than many of those who took the potatoes. She saw people from the outside and they did not look like they were doing too well, but when she looked at herself from the inside, she felt that she could handle her bad situation better than they could theirs. She never gave into allowing herself to feel she was a victim because she knew that would be the same a giving up and she had too many depending on her to allow that to happen.
Now the victims who follow Obama blame everyone for their failures. When one of these people do not graduate high school, they blame it on being a victim. They feel that if their grandfather was a slave, that is good enough reason. If they get their girl friend pregnant, again it is because they are some kind of victim. The other side becoming a victim is that when someone goes out of their way to help them, they do not appreciate it. This is because they do not see it as a gift. They see it as some thing that they deserve. They do not see a need to say "thank you", because they deserved it. My grand mother begged a person who was trying to give her something to only give her a small amount because she saw it as a gift. She never saw it as "getting even" as do the so call victims who follow Obama.
