I wish I could spend the aftermath of Barack Obama's final State Of The Union Address praising him for his public service. Even I, a
Classical Liberal, had high hopes for our first black president. But I had studied him before he took his oath. I knew his tactics would be
Alinsky, his economics
Demand Side, his government
totalitarian, and his national security policy
appeasement. I have not been surprised these last seven years by Barack Obama. What has surprised me is the degree to which the country has turned a blind eye and ignored Obama's deceptions and destruction.
If you've ever tried to build something, you'd know that it is much harder to build than to destroy. Demolition is the quickest part of any project. Construction and rebuilding are slow and arduous. Ever wonder how Obama can squeeze in hundreds of rounds of golf, nonstop fundraisers, constant non-working vacations, endless campaigning, globetrotting, partying with Hollywood celebrities, and appearances on lightweight entertainment shows? It's easy. His project is not about building. It's about tearing things down. Demolition is easy. You can do it in your spare time. And if you deceive enough people, they won't even know what you are up to.
Here are the four main areas of Obama's deceptions and destruction as highlighted by his SOTU speech yesterday:
The Economy - The central deception of Obama's economic crowing is that he inherited a mess from George W Bush, he fixed it, and now we are on a path towards building a stronger economy. Deceptions all. He and the Democrats created the mess by advocating Demand Side socialist housing policies in the 1990s. Democrats under Bill Clinton with an assist from Community Organizers like Barack Obama instituted those policies which redistributed risk from home buyers to the federal government and created a massive housing bubble that Ben Bernanke violently burst in 2006 under the hapless George W Bush. In the wake of the deceptions about this, Obama was swept into office only to double down on the destruction of any semblance of a free market housing policy. Dodd Frank put the government firmly in control of all credit allocation, and today Fannie and Freddie own a larger percent of mortgages than they did in 2008. National debt has doubled, workforce participation is at an all time low, growth is anemic, business creation is at a standstill, wages are stagnant, the poor are poorer, the rich are richer, The Fed and central banks call all the shots in the global economy, commodities are collapsing, and the world is reeling.
Whats more, new socialist bubbles have been inflated.
Twelve and a half trillion dollars have been borrowed from our children, all
student loans have been socialized, new socialist housing policies are
being instituted daily, and even
car loans are subprimed and bubbled thanks in part to the same kind of
government pressure that led to the subprime mortgage disaster. In short, the destruction of our once free market system is well underway.
National Security - President Peace Prize likes to crow that he's ended wars, got bin Laden, made friends with old enemies, and brought about an era of peace around the globe. Every one a massive deception. Wars have not ended, but expanded. Our involvement has been reduced, but at what cost? The Taliban controls more of Afghanistan than at any time since 9/11. ISIS has an actual Caliphate in Iraq and Syria complete with revenue, an army, and advanced weapons. Death and destruction from ISIS are everywhere, including in the U.S. on an almost weekly basis. Refugees have overtaken Europe and are flooding here as well. Putin is on the march. Iran is flexing it's newfound hegemony thanks to Obama's tragic trade deal sold as a nuclear deal. The only democracy in the mid-east, Israel, is now effectively an enemy. Every semblance of stability in the world has been destroyed by Obama's policies.
And Obama didn't get bin Laden. Every one of the policies and actions that led to getting bin Laden were put
in place by George W Bush and opposed - OPPOSED - by Barack Obama. His only contribution was to be warming the seat in the oval office when it all went down.
Political Tone - Obama sold himself as a messianic figure sent here to unite us. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The Alinsky tactics are "Divide and Conquer - 101". This has always been Obama's playbook. He taught Alinsky in college. He was an Alinsky Community Organizer. He has never strayed from Alinsky, not for one minute. As a result we got Occupy Wall Street, Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, Black Lives Matter, open season on Cops, a weaponized IRS, demagoguery about Fox News, Tea Baggers, the GOP, bitter clingers, the NRA, religious people, the rich, the successful, non-union companies, etc.
The country has not been this divided perhaps since 1865.
Obamacare, which restructured almost twenty percent of our economy, was shoved down the throats of the country over the unanimous objections of Republicans and a majority of all Americans. Major transformative legislation had never been imposed in such a way without bi-partisan support. Ever. In the country's history. But Obamacare was just the beginning. When Obama cannot sell a policy to the American people, or to their elected representatives, he simply executes an executive order as he's done on immigration, Obamacare modifications, guns, unions, etc. Any other president would have been stopped or impeached long ago. But Obama is our first black president and he leverages it. He doesn't just play the race card, he lives in a house of race cards, and knows that no one will ever dare approach.
Which brings me to the final deception and destruction of Obama's reign - The Constitution. Obama and his supporters were quick to tell skeptics that he was a big fan of The Constitution. He'd studied it and taught it. Why he was practically a founding father! Yes, Barack Obama was an expert in The Constitution, but only in the same way that a bank robber is an expert in bank security. He was casing the joint! He had studied it's weaknesses, knew it's vulnerabilities, and knew how to destroy it. Obama knew that The Constitution was a limit on what government could do, but he also learned that it was not self-defending. The Constitution is not like the Ark of the Covenant in the Indiana Jones movie - it cannot smite those who seek to destroy it. It is essentially a voluntary pact between the people and the government. Any determined totalitarian can easily run roughshod over it's weak defenses. And Obama is nothing if not determined.
A great clause by clause analysis of Obama's willful destruction of The U.S. Constitution is contained in
Senator Mike Lee's book, "Our Lost Constitution - The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document". There's too much for me to attempt a summary.
The success of Obama and liberalism to deceive and destroy is due to a cocktail of history and culture that will be a subject for historians and political scientists for generations. But regardless of how we got here, the reality is liberalism, Socialism, anti-constitutionalism, appeasement, totalitarianism, and Alinsky tactics are the dominant political movements in America today. The media, Hollywood, academia, TV, and pop music are all-in reflecting and amplifying this agenda.
Anyone, like yours truly, who opposes this zeitgeist is fighting a limited rear-guard action which is likely doomed to failure. Unless, that is, we have a purely national security election or two, and I don't wish that on anyone because that would mean we are under imminent threat. Is it any wonder then that a guy like Donald Trump is leading a primary race and that his
strongest support is from disaffected registered Democrats?
