Me and Obama, and to hell with America
In the course of recent times, a malignancy has slowly but inexorably infused itself within the tissue of our national persona, a me-first mindset that runs contrary to our centuries-old heritage of America First, American self-reliance, and liberty above all else.
Some blame this on the dilution of our distinctly unique constitutional Republic by the influx of tens of millions of illegal immigrants who can't or won't assimilate into our society, much less embrace our common and uniting English language. Others condemn the decades-long socialization of our government schools, where American youth are no longer taught those critical civics lessons that define the original, venerable principles of our Founding, our unrevised history, our national identity, and the machinations of constitutional governance.
But perhaps it's something simpler, something generational. For more than forty years, ever-increasing numbers of Americans have insisted upon governmental nannying in any capacity, demanded societal artificiality, or expected nurturing via social entitlements.
Complacency, greed, and indifference become the rule when challenges are removed.
Absurdities become reality
We now have a presidential candidate who, along with his wife, matured under the teachings of very angry, very militant, very anti-American mentors -- and they are raising their children in the same fashion. 
This in itself is extremely troubling because each of you reading this understands just how influential your teachers were in helping to form the adult you are today -- and yet Obama is currently leading in the polls.
We now have a Democrat Party that has managed an effective propaganda campaign bursting with nebulous slogans, false promises, outright lies, and subliminal messages, creating a Messiah-like figure in a man who falls short in every measure -- and yet Obama is currently leading in the polls.
We now have a media class that has finally come clean with America -- baring its outright support of and devotion to the Democrat Party. Hollywood and Mainstream Media have ignored or glossed over Obama's undocumented childhood, nefarious past, troubling associates, lifelong role models, campaign lies, and complete lack of experience while at the same time savaged and ruthlessly demeaned his opponents and their families. Most Americans now realize the truth of this -- and yet Obama is currently leading in the polls.
This propaganda coup is reminiscent of the Vietnam era, when so-called peace radicals successfully supported Communism in Southeast Asia -- by saying anything, doing anything, and at any cost. They ultimately helped butcher more than three million people in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam after the United States departed. Long after permanently dividing America and assuring the destruction of South Vietnam, they complacently and indifferently ignored the human slaughter that was of their creation.
The architects of that bloodshed are in power today -- in Congress, in the courts, teaching our children at universities and government schools, manipulating our daily news, and even promoting bias throughout the entertainment industry.
Self-centered socialism
One wonders in baffled amazement how an empty suit like Obama can be leading in the polls. One wonders, that is, until one looks at the mindset of what appears to be a majority of Americans today.
For two generations, many Americans have been busy proving themselves to be soft and spoiled, weak and whiny, but most of all self-centered and greedy. They demand that everything be given them without cost, without sacrifice — and they want it right now. They forcefully intrude in the lives and social circumstances of others without caring enough to indulge in the same when it comes to raising their own children.
They see nothing wrong with stealing from the wealthy in the form of oppressive taxation in order to placate the unworthy and those who do not care enough about themselves to care for themselves. They think Obama's empty promise to provide tax cuts to 95 percent of Americans is true. They think this even though:
- 36 percent of adult Americans pay no income tax whatsoever;
- The 64 percent who do pay taxes are stuck supporting the freeloaders; and
- 86 percent of all income taxes are paid by the top 25 percent of income earners.
Obviously, the 36 percent of non-contributing Americans in Obama's fairy tale of 95 percent will be given even more unearned and undeserved income stolen from the pockets of America's hard-working producers -- not tax cuts -- because they don't pay taxes at all.
Give me change at the expense of others
This apparent new American majority that supports Obama gives only the briefest, merest nod to the ideas and ideals of freedom, individualism, and independent thought. They could care less about the Constitution and the loss of individual liberty, as long as they have their mortgages paid for by somebody else.
They demand that the loathesome consequences of their irresponsible behavior be borne by others.
Obama supporters condone special-interest groups or government bureaucrats choosing our holidays and how we must act, where we work and how we must act, what and where we eat, what and where we smoke, what and where we drink, what we are allowed to wear, what we say and where we say it, and when, how, and where we worship.
Obama supporters applaud and support agenda-driven elected officials and ideologically-driven "progressive" groups as they mandate what is taught or not taught to our children in government schools and universities, what we earn for our labor, which doctors our managed health plans allow us to see, how much we must pay for our regulated medical care, and how much we are allowed for our retirement income.
Obama supporters think nothing of inhumanely killing millions of innocent babies each year but express outrage at the inhumanity of executing a convicted murderer.
The manipulation of an American election
Obama was educated to understand that this new majority can be manipulated because it is too petulant, too lazy, too hedonistic, and too pampered. He knows they no longer possess the will, the pride, or the courage to take care of themselves, let alone their children. He knows that his supporters will gladly embrace a bureaucratic nanny state to mother them and in return be given shiny but worthless trinkets with which to play. All at the expense of the the remaining Americans who actually make the country work.
Obama understands that this new majority can be manipulated by buzz words and 20-second sound bites, repeated incessantly by an obliging media. His supporters have already enabled or are in the process of enabling the generations that follow to mock authority, ridicule American values, debase our common heritage, and abuse what little freedoms remain.
And the most maddening aspect of Obama's egregiously brilliant strategy? It's working. It's working because his propaganda is attractive to those who want everything at the expense of others, regardless to the harm it causes the nation.
It's hard to believe that someone as shallow and diminutive as Obama who, in other times and with an ethical media, could not survive a one-week primary battle may utter the presidential oath of office in 2009.