I would sum up the Obama presidency thus:
A socio-political experiment to determine whether
the stupidity of American voters is sufficient to observe a governing body
empirically undermining the financial interests, national security, and
personal liberties of these same people, undisguised and in plain view over the
course of nearly four years, and yet still voluntarily support this ruling body
in its bid to further expand its own power at the expense of the basic rights,
freedoms, dignity, opportunity, and prosperity of the people.
The proposition this experiment aims to discover is
whether the American’s hierarchy of values, his moral code, even his rational
coherence as a sane member of society, are all up for sale for the mere price
of economic demagoguery. Has the price of the American soul been reduced
to untenable promises, disproved mantras, self-refuting claims, free government
cell phones, free condoms, and a PR-branding push that elevates willing supporters
to an elite, righteous sanctimony, while labeling anyone who opposes the bizarre self-surrender to a hostile government with the most viscerally repugnant rhetorical sins: racist, murderer, xenophobic, lovers of wealth,
haters of fellow humankind?
It is as though Mephistopheles has arrived on the
scene of the downtown boulevard, picked up by the inuring glare of 10,000 cell
phone cameras all streaming live, and his only question to the inquiring
electorate is whether they’re in for a few free contraceptives? WHAT SAY
YOU, SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD DEAL?
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