I don’t see the malice in Trump that so many on both the Right and Left keep spinning up. Can Trump undo some of the damage to America that Obama committed? That’s the hope, though it’s probably too much to expect from one man. But meanwhile, the Left continue to promote malice to some under the excuse of favoritism to others. Sure, higher standards exist for choosing a President, but if frogs could fly they wouldn’t bump their asses hopping on the ground.
defining America down
Obama’s change for America is to lower expectations by providing government enforced fair and balanced outcomes for all Americans. Leave aside the thorny fact that government cannot succeed in producing such an outcome–that it’s completely impossible for government to do that.
Most importantly, the key takeaway from yesterday’s speech is that Obama’s version of the American Dream is an American nightmare where unlimited opportunity becomes “a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, and secure their retirement.”
Sounds all very pleasant, but it’s a far cry from the land of unlimited opportunity where anyone can do or become anything they want if they’re willing to work for it.
People don’t immigrate to America to get by modestly and then quietly die. That is the life they want to immigrate from, not to! The American Dream is about unlimited personal and societal growth and creative opportunity. It’s about a life accessible to anyone that is not limited by heritage, not limited by any other man within a consensual framework, and especially not limited by a government “by and for the people.”
America has the largest middle class of any country because it’s where a lot of people end up after aiming for the top. If Obama succeeds in convincing Americans to aim for the middle, he will have lowered expectations for all Americans, and the ranks of impoverished Americans will grow.
A president should lead the country by expressing high ideals, not low expectations. This has always been a problem with both Michelle and Barack.
Here’s hoping for change
In “Hitler’s Beneficiaries” by Gotz Aly, I learned how the national socialists kept the average German citizen content during the war through redistribution of war booty, through socialized medicine, appropriation of wealth from conquered countries, dispossession of European Jews, regulation of banking and industry, and propaganda. Mr. Aly showed that national socialism was a political scheme designed to keep the German lower classes in favor of the regime. And it worked.
In “The Pink Swastika” by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, I learned how the Nazi Party evolved from many socialist and sexualized small groups to become a self-referential inner circle built around Greek concepts of virility, youth, masculinity and ruthlessness.
And I look around today and see that all of the same precursors exist. Go to any ANSWER web site and look at the hundreds of links to other web sites for similar groups, all aggrieved, all willing to use force to redress their own vision of social justice, economic inequality, and sexual inequality. I see how the majority in this country, who I assume are mostly not in these sorts of hyper-politicized groups, nevertheless are now conditioned by several decades of predominantly leftist education and national media.
The national socialists in Germany took several decades to coalesce into a mass murder machine. They didn’t start out killing, they started with a basket of supremacist philosophies and it took a long time for reality to catch up with their philosophies.
It feels like that’s where we are now–in the catch up phase.
Reality is slowly catching up with what have recently become the governing philosophies in America. We won’t get to a terrible end for a while, maybe not for quite a while. But I would really like to see the trend reversed, because where we’re headed currently, with the basket of nationalist, socialist, sexualist, and militant philosophies in control, and with political and economic mechanisms to manipulate the democratic majorities keeping these forces in control, is a dark dead place.
Coincidence is not causation, however, coincidence is not sufficient to explain the evolution of the Nazis. They grew from their component philosophies just as we grow according to our DNA structure. They weren’t pre-determined, but they were heavily influenced.
What hubris to think that we can engage in similar nihilistic, destructive, hedonistic and militant past times, and expect a different result.
hoping they change
America, It’s Your Fault! How’s That For Change?
By MARK STEYN Posted 04/08/2011 05:19 PM ET
Hey, it’s the weekend, and everyone’s singing the same maddeningly catchy refrain! Rebecca Black’s “Friday”? Nah, that was last week’s moronic sing-along. This week’s is even perkier! “Paul Ryan proposes to end Medicare as we know it,” sings former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
“It would end Medicare as we know it,” sings Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. “It’s going to end Medicare as we know it,” sings Nadeam Elshami, communications director for Nancy Pelosi. “It does end Medicare as we know it,” sings Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. “I drove all night to watch Paul Ryan e-e-end Me-edi-ica-a-are as we-e kno-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w it,” sing all 24 semifinalists on the Celine Dion round of “American Idol.” [Read more…]
A Menace To Our Future
Worse than Nixon, Carter and Clinton.
A Scorecard Of Negatives, A Menace To Our Future
By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A. ROBBINS Posted 03/16/2011 07:03 PM ET
By any rational standard, Barack Obama gets an F for job performance and should — on that basis alone — either resign or be voted out ASAP before he does further harm. Obama is a strange man who often seems not to be paying attention. Does he have a second job and work for America only part time? Is he real or virtual? Other nations no longer look to America’s mysterious president for leadership. “President Obama stands mostly mute at the sidelines like a perfectly groomed mannequin,” reports Matthew d’Ancona of the U.K.’s Telegraph. So faint and fumbling is Obama that even his hard-core lefty colleagues are forced to avert their eyes in embarrassment. An exasperated Richard Cohen at the Washington Post blurted out the truth regarding the president: “Like a picture hung in the sun, he fades over time.” [Read more…]