As a former community organizer myself, I was intrigued when I saw a couple of different headlines suggesting that the president of the United States has expressed an interest in getting back into that modest line of work when he is no longer president. Of course, the headlines are a bit misleading. There’s no going back to the old job for Barack Obama. In Breitbart’s case, they didn’t even editorialize on the story and basically just used the words “community organizer” as clickbait. It works for them because they’ve turned those words into an epithet…something worthy of contempt.
It probably bends their reader’s minds to contemplate someone who could do almost anything for almost any amount of money deciding to focus on getting good paying jobs and some decent outcomes into our poorer communities. These folks don’t understand what Jimmy Carter did with his post-presidency or why he is so widely admired.
This is what happens when you shrink-wrap your own brain.
