Submitted by: Kurt J Fitsch
Fundamental Concepts - The
Tao of Poo [Weirddave]
Every day, many of us look
around and frankly wonder what's going on in this country of
ours. It's obvious that President Obama has been a disaster
for the country, but there is endless speculation as to the
nature of the disaster, whether it's incidental or
intentional. Is this all some malevolent plan, or simply the
wages of unprecedented incompetence? Obama did promise to
"fundamentally change" the US after all, but is this what he
meant? You hear everything from grand, sweeping conspiracy
theories ("If he was setting out to destroy the country,
what would he do differently?") to despairing wails ("How
could he not realize that *something bad* would happen if he
did *something*"). My belief is that everyone is over
thinking the issue. I'm a big believer in Occam's razor, and
if you put two simple pieces of information together you get
a very simple explanation for 7 years of insanity.
First of all, let's take
Obama. What is he? By temperament and training, he is a
community organizer. The thing is, that's one of those terms
that sounds self explanatory but really it's not, in fact it
means the opposite of what it seems to mean. The term
"community organizer" was coined by Saul Alinsky to describe
the people who he envisioned would destabilize society. The
last thing an Alinskyite wants is for a community to be
organized. An organized community is functioning smoothly,
all of its parts meshing seamlessly. An organized community
has no need for, nor desire for, an Alinskyite. No, the job
of one of Alinsky's community organizers is to destabilize a
community, to disorganize it. It is only when a community
becomes disorganized that the politics of division can
thrive and it is divided communities that are the end goal
of Alinsky's disciples. Only when a community has been
fatally divided against itself is it ripe for tearing down,
to be replaced by a communal Utopia. Sowing this division is
all Obama has done all his entire adult life. It is
quite literally all he knows.
That's bad enough, but
completing the toxic brew that we've been forced to quaff
these past seven years is the fact that Obama as President
is the de-facto head of the Democrat Party, and the Democrat
party is absolutely dependent on the factionalization of
society for its success. The Democrat Party is the party of
identity politics, the party of conflict, the party of "us"
against "them", and they survive by making people believe
that they are the only chance "us" has to keep from being
overwhelmed by whatever "them" is the boogyman of the week.
The Democrat Party is the living embodiment of the most
perfect quote regarding politics that I've ever heard. H.L.
Mencken, the illustrious "Sage of Baltimore", once observed
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of
them imaginary". Now, that's not to say that the Republicans
don't do the same thing, they do, but theoretically at least
the Republican Party has some principles behind it. Yes, you
can stop laughing now, I said theoretically. The Democrat
Party, however, has no principles beyond an unbridled lust
for power, and the way they achieve that power is by pitting
groups against each other.
So now let's put those two
together, shall we? Obama's training and temperament lead
him to play factions off against each other. His party is
absolutely dependent on that happening. I contend that the
simplest explanation for all of the decisions made by Obama
during his time as president. In every instance he's asked
himself "What can I do that will further drive people
apart?". I doubt that he's even doing it consciously. That
doesn't mean that isn't doing it. I can't think of a single
major incident in his presidency where this pattern hasn't
held true, and on top of that, there are dozens of minor
incidents that Obama has weighed in on, always divisively,
that should be far below the level of presidential attention
(Remember Professor Gates? That's a situation worthy of
presidential intervention? In what universe?).
The office of president is
bestowed upon a person who is elected to lead ALL Americans
for a single term, more if he can convince them to re-elect
him. ALL Americans. However vicious an election may
be, once elected, a president is supposed to represent
everybody. Of course, presidents are human and this isn't
fantasy land, so this remains an ideal, but it is an
important ideal in a UNITED country, like the UNITED
States. All 43 presidents before Barack Obama generally
tried to observe this convention, or at least pay lip
service to it; but with Obama, as we've seen, it's so far
from his being that you might as well expect a plant to
walk. I don't believe the man is capable of it, if you
suggested that he act as his predecessors acted he'd look at
you askance for even suggesting such a thing. It's literally
beyond his ken.
I don't have to tell you how
dangerous this is, we're living it, a real life version of
the old "It's my nature" scorpion and frog joke, which is
terrifying. The person responsible for oiling the gears of
society is instead throwing sand into them, and has been for
years. The only reason the social machine that is America
hasn't ground to a halt yet is because of how robustly it
was over engineered, but the bearings are smoking, the
valves are knocking and the whole thing is groaning like an
alligator in heat. It'll be a frickin' miracle if we live
through it.
I honestly believe that
that's it. There are other layers involved, of course. In
this column I'm dealing with the micro, not the macro. For
example, critical theory and the Frankfort school are still
a thing and are culpable in most of this too, but that's big
picture stuff. I'm focusing on one man, Obama, and
discussing small picture stuff. The murder of Kate Steinle
didn't lend itself to immediate division (very few people
are going to willingly envision themselves on the same side
as a 5 times deported psychotic criminal) so Obama limited
himself to a weak call for gun control. On the other hand,
after Dylann Roof did his despicable deed the people of
Charleston did a remarkable thing (that shouldn't be
remarkable at all). They came together as Americans, white
and black, male and female, conservative and liberal, and
absolutely rejected the politics of division. Al Sharpton
headed south, as did DeRay, and the blood soaked gears or
racial grievance machine started to grind....until it was
SHUT DOWN! Shut down by the people of Charleston who
remember who they were (Americans) and what that means. Shut
down bay a community that was actually organized. Shut down
by good people. The race baiters were sent scurrying with
their tails between their legs. That's what the whole
Confederate Battle Flag (Grrr! Naval Jack! The battle flag
is SQUARE - pedantic historian Weirddave) flap has been
about. The grievance machine rolled into Charleston
expecting to foment another Baltimore or Ferguson riot, and
it was rejected soundly. Americans acted like Americans, and
that was a huge threat to the dividers. Almost everyone can
see that the CBF outrage is beyond stupid, but we are being
MADE to care about it because otherwise we might just
remember that we all have much more in common than we do
differences, and in that remembrance is the end of the
Democrat Party and an utter rejection of everything Barack
Obama really is. We can't have that, can we?
As to the title of this
piece, well, anyone who would deliberately set out to
destroy cohesiveness and sow division would pretty much be a
real shit, wouldn't he? ;)
E.T.A. Twitter user Evi L
Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) made a graphic for this post.
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