Barack Obama and the
End of an Era
By Steve McCann
The re-election of Barack Obama is the high
water mark and the end of an era. The period 1960 to 2014 will go down in
American history as the era of never-ending crusades leading to the decline and
potential downfall of the United States. During this time frame
America has been inundated with one cause after another. The
essential civil rights movement and the tragically successful Viet Nam protests
spawned numerous causes, among them: feminism, environmentalism, global
warming, and gay rights.
For each generation born after 1940 it has
been a rite of passage to take up the mantle of protest concurrent with
mindless dedication to oftentimes absurd and erroneous beliefs, which have, in
nearly all cases, resulted in disastrous societal and economic consequences.
With the backdrop of unimaginable prosperity and
lack of any national adversity since the end of the Great Depression, far too
many have sought so-called meaning in their lives and for a cause to
wholeheartedly and fervently embrace. To countless Americans these
movements became their religion and reason for being. This mindset is
unique among western democracies and it has been easily exploited by the
American left -- a major factor in their rise to power and domination of the
culture and government.
As the left stealthily hijacked these causes,
they were able to convince the True Believers in all these various movements
that they stood with them; but more important was their ability to ingrain the
conviction that anyone who opposed any of these evolving crusades was the
incarnation of evil and must be defeated at all costs. Political
Correctness and its companion, unrestrained demonization of political
opposition, was born.
The Civil Rights movement begun with best of
intentions, and long overdue, achieved many of its original goals in breaking
down the barriers to equality; however it soon degenerated into a battering ram
as the liberals, in order to create a vast national dependency class, demanded,
in the name of civil rights, innumerable and ever-expanding welfare programs as
well as unending affirmative action for ever-evolving "minorities"
(including women, a numerical majority). The nation now faces a tsunami
of unsustainable welfare and entitlement spending emanating from programs begun
in the 1960's.
The Viet Nam war protests, while perhaps
justified in light of the ham-handed manner in which the war was prosecuted,
unleashed far more than just a demand for an end to the war. Those that
blamed America for all manner of alleged sins in the past and determined to
transform the United States into a socialist nirvana were able to step out from
behind the shadows and enter the mainstream of national legitimacy. This
swarm of locusts soon enveloped the higher levels of academia spawning countless
clones to further infiltrate all levels of society -- most notably the
mainstream media and entertainment complex as well as primary and secondary
education. These vital segments of the culture are now instruments
of indoctrination and propaganda.
The feminist movement originally initiated to
ensure workplace equality was quickly taken over by the self-described
"Progressives" and transformed into a vehicle to alter American
society primarily through the legitimization of abortion on demand under the
rubric of "women's rights." Since 1973 the nation has
witnessed the killing of over 54.5 million children, which has eventuated in a
grotesque disregard for human life, as exemplified by Kermit Gosnell in
Philadelphia. This catastrophic erosion in respect for the uniqueness of
each individual has resulted in American society inexorably losing its moral
compass. Thus the people have become more susceptible to accepting
deviancy and abandoning all pretexts of honor and integrity in themselves and
in particular their national leaders.
As with other causes, the environmental movement
began with the best of intentions: to clean up the air and water polluted
through years of neglect. However, it quickly evolved into an
anti-capitalist crusade with the avowed intent of promoting socialist big
government as the savior of the planet and the only means of curbing the evil
and greedy capitalists. Man-made global warming, perhaps the greatest
hoax ever perpetrated on mankind, became the penultimate dogma to those
dedicated to things "bigger than themselves" and who turned out to be
ideal useful idiots for the left. Today the free market is shackled
by a Niagara Falls of regulations, mandates, taxes and oversight thus
devastating the ability of the economy to create wealth and jobs.
While the nation slumbered, content in its
prosperity, the American left, during the past fifty plus years of never-ending
crusades, has succeeded in creating:
A) a vast army of voters made up of:
1) those dependent on government largess, 2) low-information voters --
the natural outgrowth of the current education system, and 3) the easily
manipulated and myopic single issue zealots. The election of Barack Obama
is a testament to the success of this strategy.
B) national leadership devoid
of character and integrity who, in their determination to seize and hold power,
are guided by only one principle: the end justifies the means.
C) an entrenched and unrestrained
de facto oligarchy in Washington D.C.
D) economic circumstances wherein,
for the first time in American history, a succeeding generation will be far
worse off than the one preceding it. Meanwhile the ruling class is
insistent on adding untold millions to the labor force by legitimizing, for
political purposes, those in the country illegally.
E) a deliberately ill-educated
and fractured society destined for internal strife and chaos.
The prosperity that allowed this stealth war on
United States to occur is no more. This nation is subsisting on the
residue of its past glory with no hope of regaining its former lofty status as
long as it is governed by the most dangerous and radical regime in its
history. The American people, as their day to day lives continue to
deteriorate, are becoming increasingly aware of the nation's precarious
situation.
Beginning in 2014, as Benghazi and a myriad of
other scandals combined with a rapidly declining standard of living for a vast
majority of Americans marginalizes the Obama cabal, the focus of the nation
will no longer be on bumper sticker platitudes and movements. Instead it
will, by necessity, be on individual survival as well as desperately finding a
way, before the nation descends into chaos, to recreate what made the United
States the most successful nation in the history of mankind.
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