What, Obama not a patriot? I won't
hear of it! Doesn't love America? Balderdash and pooh. He
absolutely loves America. Or... he would, if he could only succeed
in transforming it into the country it ought to be (and should always
have been) – basically a vast horde of helpless, mindless,
thumb-sucking serfs, afraid of their own shadows and totally
dependent on government for everything, with him in charge. This is,
and has always been, the dream of liberals, going back to the the
progressives of more than a century ago. The basic premise is that
the “common people” are hopelessly ignorant, superstitious, and
hate-filled, and have no idea what is good for them – but that the
intellectuals have all the answers and all the skills required to
transform society into a Utopia, and that they should, therefore, be
put in charge for perpetuity. The first president who fully embraced
this notion seems to have been Theodore Roosevelt, but many others
followed in his footsteps – most notably FDR, Johnson, and now
Obama. And it matters little what the personal foibles and failures
of a given leader are; all that counts is good intentions (alleged),
good presentation, and “optics”. And a bit of political or
financial pressure applied at the right time to the right people –
regrettable, of course, but fully justified given the nobility of the
cause.
This is what it would take for Obama to
love America – for who doesn't love his own creation? Think about
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. If FDR were still around (having
given up smoking, of course), he would be ecstatic when surveying the
current political scene, because even though the New Deal did not
survive fully intact, what we have now includes all of its ideas,
most of which have been implemented beyond his wildest dreams. And
as far as LBJ and the Great Society -- “If you seek his monument,
look around you”, in cities like Washington, D.C., Detroit, Newark,
Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, etc. Far from being the abject
failures that conservatives accuse them of being, they are a stunning
success, if your definition of “success” is, first and foremost,
increasing the power and scope of government at the expense of the
citizenry. That, and not only defining deviancy down, but defining
it out of existence. The agents of social change have done their
work in our large cities, and proud of it; the only sour note was
that many people were insufficiently enlightened to appreciate their
efforts, and so fled to the suburbs. (But that's change too, and
change is always good, right?)
And as for Obama's patriotism – why,
who has ever waved the flag higher? By which I mean the flag for
things like “diversity”, which is little more than
totalitarianism and enforced uniformity in disguise. He could lead a
very long parade of victim groups (both official and self-styled), as
long as they all fit into the liberal-progressive-secular-materialist
agenda. God-fearing religious people need not apply, nor do small
businessmen, “angry white men” (who are, undoubtedly, also
racist, sexist, and homophobic), stay-at-home moms (terribly
oppressed, don'tcha know), families who opt out of government
schools, and anyone who believes in freedom of economic choice.
Champions of “the people” are never
the least bit interested in the hopes and dreams of real
people – especially when said people are “held back” by ancient
loyalties to race, religion, ethnic group, and tradition.
“Diversity” to a progressive is one long “It's a Small World”
ride, with colorful stereotyped costumes and stereotyped music... a
sanitized street festival with all sorts of foodstuffs, kumbaya and
drumming... but heaven forbid anyone try to insert real handed-down
traditions and attitudes, and – yes – prejudices into the
proceedings, because that is not the kind of world we want, is it?
Racial, ethnic, and religious groups have been defined down through
the millennia as having pride in themselves and in their own kind,
and a healthy suspicion of strangers – of “the other”. This
is, in fact, the key to any group's survival, and no one has
questioned it up until the current era – especially when it comes
to minorities. But this cannot be permitted in the New World Order;
human nature must be changed, and the progressives are the ones to do
it (just as the Bolsheviks were the ones to do it a century or so
ago). The way must be made straight through tangled, messy human
nature, and all the rough places made plain. There must be a great
leveling process, starting with equal opportunity and gradually
evolving into equal outcomes (once we've passed the
quotas/affirmative action/reparations stage, that is). And the
battle cry from the beginning to the end of this process must be
“fairness” (at all costs)!
Conservatives, on
the other hand -- while not perfect in this respect -- are much more
capable of seeing, and accepting, human nature as it is, whether
applied to individuals or groups, rather than what we might want it
to be based on some idyllic image of a past that never existed, or
of a future that is highly unlikely this side of the Apocalypse.
They are neither offended by the way people actually are and how they
behave, nor do they put “the people” on an impossibly high
pedestal based on pure Utopian fantasy. Conservatives are even
willing to accept the reality that some people really are dependent
and need charity, while at the same time allowing others (hopefully
the majority) to seek their fortune without impediment and harassment
by the government. (This, by the way, is how “compassionate
conservatism” should have been defined, but the people promoting it
didn't have sufficient insight to do so, with the result that the
term became an object of derision.)
So, when every flag
is a rainbow flag, but all true differences and individuality have
been snuffed out, then you can expect Obama and his ilk to be the
greatest of patriots. They will look upon that which they have
created, and pronounce it good.
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