Can schadenfreud be truly great fun?
Schadenfreude is a wonderful and unique German word that means rollicking fun watching someone else suffer.
In this case, watching the president of the United States, a man I consider to be arrogant, generally incompetent and particularly mean, suffering from choices he has made. It is indeed fun.
Obama has chosen to ally his political fortunes with the environmental movement, labor unions and his own campaign of class warfare based on blaming rich people for high unemployment.
Now he has thousands of people protesting and hopefully living in the park across the street from his home, the White House.
The protesters are environmentalists who object to a secondary oil pipeline from Canada. The allies who want the jobs that will be created from a new pipeline are the unions who give Obama more money than any other category of donor, and provide him with more campaign workers than any other political group.
To add to this melange of schadenfreude that we fans of domestic energy and opponents of class warfare can enjoy is the Democratic Party support for the left wing-anarchist-campers (flea party) in many public urban spaces.
There's more fun.
The unions, which have been losing favor for decades carried out criminal activity in Wisconsin and were not punished. The left wing-anarchists-campers are similarly criminal and not punished.
Democracy does not flourish when crime is unabated. The American public does not like what they see and does not consider it part of public discourse.
Watching Democratic mayors promote and tolerate crime because they like the criminal's message is part of the fun we get to enjoy… knowing that the public is hostile. And the media blithely reports the story as though it is not funny.