Animal Farm

Since the early beginnings of our welfare state, we have come to view our presidents as father figures. There are two basic approaches to disciplining one’s child. One is to enforce respect; the other is love. There is no greater psychological damage that accrues to human beings than from the sense that their father does not love them. Such lack of love can range anywhere from benign neglect to outright abuse.

Barack Hussein Obama does not love America. We all sense it. Whether we tend to remain largely unconcerned about our political realities or invest a great deal of our emotion in the political process, the statements and policies of our current administration to date have been so egregious as to demand our attention. For most people, both on the right and the left, there is now a sense of being abused.

This factor alone will drive the midterm November elections. These can be expected to send anyone who is perceived as being aligned with the president down to defeat. Will it be enough to curb Obama’s leftist ambition? I seriously doubt it. By that time Obama will have accumulated enough regulatory power to be able to override anything that Congress may demand. He will double down and press ahead with his agenda as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In fact, he should find the going even easier because he will now be able to blame his failures on the Congress (as he has blamed the previous administration all along).

Obama has a grand, audacious vision. A divided and dysfunctional Congress will not likely rise to the occasion and present an even greater vision to counter his. Expect only a sharp increase in meaningless chatter, finger pointing, and the clucking of forked tongues while Obama forges ahead in remaking our nation.

If the Congress should desire to make a real change (as I feel it must in order to save both itself and us), it will have to immediately deal with the issue of impeachment. Obama has already shredded his parent card several times over - and we all know it.

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter went to an animal shelter to adopt two kittens. She was required to give two references of people willing to swear that she is fit to take care of her pets. Unfortunately, no such precaution exists re new parents or American presidents.

Animal Farm

Not much is known about North Korea these days but it may in fact mirror George Orwell’s classic “Animal Farm” to a tee. I recommend this slim volume to anyone who may be tempted to believe that central planning is the answer to all the world’s ills. All the elements and personalities of Marxist lore are uncannily brought into sharp focus in this dystopian spoof that was originally meant to bring the brutal reality of Stalinism home to the general reading public: the pigs; the useful idiots; the need for an enemy; food and health rationing; weapons development (the windmill); the re-write of history; propaganda; corruption; oppression, and more.

Many of these very same trends are rapidly developing within our own nation today. The slide into Marxism seems easy at first. Later, the mix of delusion and raw power tends to turn lethal when issues of succession are at stake. We are now seeing this in North Korea.

The West (including much of America) has already capitulated to Orwell's pigs. Barack Hussein Obama represents the closest we have ever come to tyrannical rule. You might ask yourselves, Who is Obama’s designated enemy? Who is the one, we are constantly told, that is keeping the central planners from achieving their Utopian goals? The answer is YOU.

Because We Don't Want To

Simon Constable is right to say that we must go on with our lives as best we can; that otherwise the terrorists win. Besides, the whole terrorist thing is beginning to get a bit fishy – like ‘global warming’, perhaps. It’s starting to resemble George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a world perpetually at war with shadowy entities (that could very well be we ourselves), pervasive government surveillance, public mind control, rewritten histories, manufactured fear, and the voiding of citizens' rights.

Even with his domestic policies in shambles, Barack Hussein Obama clearly is not about to give up on his vision for America. He will now concentrate on an area where he, as chief executive, has maximum power and discretion: foreign policy. Not unlike such Obama initiatives as wealth redistribution through punitive taxation; health care, cap and trade, banking and immigration reform, his foreign policy remains equally unpopular with the general public.

His approach to terrorism, for instance, is like Swiss cheese. Though, he never explicitly said so, (since the Van Jones revelations) it is now no longer unthinkable that Obama sides essentially with the 9/11 Truthers’ assessment of the incident. So, let’s stipulate (just for the fun of it), that the 9/11 was an inside job; that Bush did it to start a war in Iraq for oil and all the rest… I remember even Clinton supporters lamenting that 9/11 didn’t happen during his term; that he could have been a great president. So, let’s just say, for arguments sake that Bubba actually lit the fuse.

It seems to me that ever since Abdulmutallab’s father reported his suspicions about his son to the U. S. embassy in Nigeria, we did practically everything we could to bring the kid over here. Then we promptly made it so that he wouldn’t talk. We continue to subject our own people to criminal trails while offering constitutional protections and pro bono lawyers to self-proclaimed jihadis, affording them high-profile platforms from which to spew their condemnation of us. We purge our dictionaries of language. We muzzle our press. You know all the rest… And nothing makes sense anymore.

I ask you, which of the last three presidents had more cause to perpetuate terror as a tool for any reason? All three, perhaps; but certainly Obama, who has already shown his rogue colors in trying to foist an alien agenda on the American public.

I’m just asking, why would we implicate Bush in the 9/11 plot and leave out the possibility of Obama’s involvement in the 2009 Christmas Day outrage – or even in the 11/5/09 Fort Hood massacre?

As I see it, terrorism has become a convenient tool for our leaders to blame and destroy political opponents and bridle the public. Why else would we put up with it for close to a decade?

All these things have become suspect within my own mind. I recognize that in politics nothing is as it appears. I think there’s a good chance we’re being taken for a ride. There is no reason on earth why we, the most powerful nation on earth, couldn’t solve the issue of terrorism for once and for all. If we can set our minds to putting a man on the moon, and succeed; if we can bring down the Berlin Wall; if we can achieve the highest overall standard of living among nations, how is it we cannot deal with a handful of 6th century religious reprobates? How is it we let them walk all over us. How is it, we must bend over and take off our shoes at airports? How is it we must cower in fear in our own cities? How is it, we simply throw up our hands and tolerate color coded alerts, telling ourselves to march on obediently as if nothing were amiss? Why don’t we just marshal our forces and put an end to it as we did in World Wars I and II? The answer may well be, because we don’t want to.