Curtains

More evidence to underline what we already know. Nothing new here. What is noteworthy is why team Obama doesn't appear to care. By the end of his first term POTUS will have had the opportunity to serve with both a Democrat majority and a Republican majority (in Congress). He has already succeeded in destroying the Democrats. After the midterms, he will have had at it with Republicans. There is nothing to suggest that Republicans will mount a credible opposition. By Barack Hussein Obama’s second term, both parties will have been thoroughly discredited leaving only the executive branch as a viable option.

In the meantime we will continue to talk politics – as if it matters. “…human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions. Baser emotions, meaning hatred and rancour and spite and jealousy and bloodlust and so forth. In other words, politics is a symptom of our fallen state and expresses that fallen state.” (Quote taken from J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, ‘Summertime’.)

We are now well into what appears to be our post-political period. Most of us are not yet up to speed. We cannot envision our nation without the obligatory political jousting. Like entertainment (such as sports, books, movies, and the like) it engages the emotions and consumes our time and energy. For the Obama administration, it also serves as a convenient diversion; to distract us from the real issues at hand, namely: Will we submit to tyranny or will we stand up against it?

This is not to say that the Obama administration is any different from previous ones. It may just be that this administration is less adept at maintaining the curtain with all the pretty pictures on it.