Tasty and satisfying snark here:

Palin shows us how it’s done
WHY, why, why can’t WE have a Sarah Palin?
That was the question churning in my mind as I witnessed this astonishing American presidential race.

A week ago few in Britain had heard of Palin.

Today, the moose-huntin’ mom is the most talked-about woman in the world.

And with good reason.

Her sensational performance at the Republican convention may turn out to be the moment the White House slipped from Barack Obama’s grasp.

She was an electrifying mix of passion, energy, optimism and plain speaking. The exact opposite of the slippery, two-faced, depressing bunch of third-raters who parade on our Westminster stage.

This piece is so chock-full of rich buttery goodness I won’t excerpt more, much as I’d like to. Just go read it.

And in answer to the question posed in the subhed, I’d say it just may be the inevitable result of nanny-state usurpation of individual responsibility and self-reliance, whot whot? I mean, when a gutsy Englishman or woman stands up for him- or herself against violent, unassimilated fundie-Muslim immigrants or a gang of amoral-thug teenagers these days, said courageous individual is more likely to be prosecuted themselves than congratulated. Examples of just that sort of thing are plentiful in the archives here and elsewhere, and the easily-predictable impact of that ass-backwards, down-the-rabbit-hole reversal of the rules by which any decent society is organized ought to be as obvious as it is deplorable.

When you stand idly by as your overprotective Big-Mommy government arranges to pussify the nation, you can’t be all that surprised when you end up with…a nation of pussies. And if you’ve allowed the forces of politically-correct liberal darkness to stultify the national debate, it shouldn’t be shocking when you find yourself producing more Chamberlains than Churchills. You don’t hone a knife by letting it rust in a drawer — or by banning knives altogether.

We in America would do well to heed the lesson and kick our own namby-pamby pussifiers to the curb posthaste, before they make things any worse here than they already are — which is quite bad enough already, thanks. After all, this week’s rough-and-tumble eruption of Palinmania already has half the damned country shrieking and looking wildly about for a skirt to hide behind. It’ll be a sad, sorry pass indeed if we all end up looking back twenty years from now and asking ourselves where all the Sarahcudas disappeared to.

Absolutely, positively related update! “Community organizers”=commie agitators:

Community-Organizers come from outside of the community. An outside organization hires,trains and dispatches (assigns) them to a community in order to mobilize the community to seek the kind of solutions that the organization wants. Communities don’t ask for these people to be sent, they show up and start taking over. Ultimately, the organization seeks to harness the political power of a community for the elitists’ own ends.

The article sugarcoats Alinsky’s ideology and methodology. Alinsky advocated a ruthlessly pragmatic model which sent “community organizers”, modeled on the communist concept of agitators, into local communities to exploit local concerns to build a political movement that would eventually destroy the old order.

Even without Alinsky’s philosophy, it’s clear that community organizers represent a foreign influence on a community. They do not represent the people of a community coming together to solve problems or petition the government. They represent a tool by which a radical elite harvests votes and power from vulnerable communities.

Far from being uncomfortable with poking fun at these agitators, real Americans damned well ought to be doing it every chance we get. A certain segment of our population — the collectivist one — has built a twisted mythology around these people that posits them as “heroes,” while mocking those who actually work hard to advance themselves on their own as “tools of the system,” or, in urban black neighborhoods, “Uncle Toms.” It’s as back-asswards as everything else they advocate, and it’s destructive. It ought to be derided at the very least; it’s a smokescreen, the gentle, happy face drawn over something a lot more insidious.

And as always, Iowahawk can be relied upon to show us the way:

What do community organizers do? As you know, Americans today are struggling with problems. These problems include rising unemployment, energy cost, alienation, animosity, corporations, and increased death. Like no other time in our history, Americans are staring into an abyss of a hellhole of helplessness. And this is where community organizers like me come in and provide needed solutions. Specifically, America’s community organizers:

• reach out and work with communities in various ways.
• liaison with, and for, community agencies for service within affected areas.
• fight to make a difference.
• raise awareness.
• deal with community issues.
• raise awareness in the community of how we are making differences about undealt-with issues.
• when necessary, refer inquiries to outreach coordinators.
• Help coordination agency administrators identify and address outreach opportunities.
• model timetables and conceptualize benchmarks.
• issue guidelines for poster contests and interpretive dance festivals.
• Gather voter registrations, win valuable prizes.

And that’s just the beginning…

Yep, that’s about the size of it. Just more liberal talky-talk-talk, and very little else.