So. Obama wants a permanent big government client state that keeps the poor dependent and keep the ideological left, churned out by the institutions its overrun and coopted as “educational” organs, employed as its propaganda arm — challenged with keeping those on the taking end of the centralized redistributive model with “voting their economic interests”
And more, he and his campaign are actually willing to come right out and profess it.
Meaning, ObamaCo believes what we here at protein wisdom have been fretting over for years now — that the nation has finally reached its self-interested, ideologically-retooled tipping point, wherein the number of those willing to vote themselves other people’s shit surpasses the number of those who believe in a system of government that protects unalienable rights and provides the framework for equal opportunity under the law.
For the first time in my lifetime, we will have a President running on a message that he doesn’t represent all Americans, but rather, that he is hoping that, for those who vote with him, he and the New Left will be able to complete their decades-long attempt at a soft coup.
This is startling. But for those of us who were brazen enough to warn back in 2007-9 that this was the inevitable trajectory of an Obama presidency (and who were as a result of our “unhelpfulness” kicked out of polite “conservative” company), it is hardly surprising.
The way to beat back such an attempt at paradigmatic change has always been to challenge the assumptions of the emergent paradigm threatening to swallow up the extant epistemological structure. And doing this involves challenging incoherent linguistic assumptions that have gained purchase by passing themselves off as “democratizing” — when in fact what they’ve done is institutionalized a form of mob rule at the expense and legitimacy of individual sovereignty and personal autonomy.
From these linguistic follies, popularly institutionalized, have grown a host of ideologically-predictable tentacles, from the PC movement with and its Orwellian inversion of “tolerance” to the multiculturalist and diversity movements, with their deconstruction and reformation of “fairness,” “equality,” and individual authenticity. And it is this vast net of tentacles that has — quite intentionally — worked to constrain and bracket Constitutional first principles in order to re-imagine (or “fundamentally transform”) the US from a constitutional republic to collectivist would-be Utopia in which group dynamics, identity politics, and consensus truths are deemed more legitimate grounds for policy making than individual liberty, rugged individualism, and Enlightenment reliance on appeals to (the metaphysical ideal) objectivity and logic to ascertain foundational truths.
We cannot, simply by way of horse-race electioneering, fix what ideologically ails us. To do so is to commit ourselves to losing more slowly.
— Which, from what I gather, is a perfectly acceptable course of action for the GOP, who en route to that eventual loss, will nevertheless profit along the way.
Uh, is this a variant of reparations? With the right people administering them, of course.
It’s interesting to contrast the new Obama push to the old Obama push, represented here in a Shelby Steele analysis at the time of Obama’s election: Obama’s post-racial promise
I’m going to have to run all this past SEK before I can believe it, JG.
1968 was when this course was set by the New Left as they needed to kick to the curb and or control they blue collar workers in order to take over the Democratic Party. I wrote in the pub on this based mostly on this piece from the 1972 Commentary.
After 43 years they have finally decided that they not only don’t need the blue collar workers in the Party itself but don’t even need their votes in any election. Progress!
Isn’t it interesting too to see “education” abandoned as a marker of education as such, and more forthrightly substituted by “education” as a marker of ideological indoctrination! They unwittingly speak a truth better kept concealed.
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Well it’s all fun and games until
the China bubble bursts
the EU disintegrates
Iran goes nuclear
global warming drowns us all
global cooling freezes us out
the ozone layer disappears and we burn up
CO2 chokes us to death
PEAK OIL!
Just imagine how great it’ll be when they do away with elections!
In that case, it’s going to need another 5000 words.
They didn’t like the American electorate because it wouldn’t give them the cultural and political revolution that they wanted. Then they went about the project of importing the third world into the United States in order to give them the electorate that they wanted.
Think about that for a minute – the Left actually changed the electorate to suit its ends, rather than appealing to the electorate that was. Now they don’t need you, crackas.
this is just same ole identity politics I think … it’s the flip side of Team R targeting the people what are all a flustered about the illegal immigrants I think
You’re a fucking idiot.
I don’t think it’s a question of “don’t need”, so much as a fact of “can’t get”. The fortunate “blue-collar” workers are largely unindoctrinated sufficiently in fact, so uninfected with bullshit, and therefore simply can’t be obtained. The “don’t need” is a
racistwhitewash.It’s all about the spendings. So if the Team R doofus really and for true wants to fix the spendings, I don’t care if s/he wants to bugger all the illegals with an electric fence or buy Inclusive Festival tickets for all the illegals. Compared to the spendings, the illegals really aren’t that important to me right now.
I guess maybe the general will be all about the spendings but all they ever do in the Team R debates is yammer about the immigrants.
Everyone: please bookmark this comment and use if from now until ever to answer happyfeet, who persists in pretending no one has ever answered his objections to at least one plank of the conservative platform.
happyfeet writes (yet again):
To which we respond, for the thousandth time: securing our borders, clamping down on illegal immigration, and enforcing our immigration laws — all while supporting legal immigration, particularly for skilled labor — will all help control spending by curtailing the drain on state resources, defeating the panders of politicians pitching ever new “compassionate” entitlements in exchange for “the Hispanic vote,” and assimilating those people who wish to come to the US for an opportunity, not to find a more protected base from which to preach racial separatism and collect government entitlements.
I’m not sold. They never really talk about how much money they’re gonna save by cracking down on the immigrant folk … and mostly they skirt the subject of how much their fences and security guard monkeys will cost.
In the article, they state that the top priorities of the New Obama Coalition (everyone but the white middle class) are : health care, food stamps, infant nutrition, unemployment compensation, self-expression rights (?), demilitarization, and freedom from “repressive norms” – sexual, and gender – that are “promoted by the conservative movement.
Looking at that list – right there – we’re fucked. Or,the left should be fucked.
These aren’t the concerns of a country on the edge of economic collapse. Or a country facing threats from a variety of courses.
They talk about the drain on resources all the time. You continue to pretend they don’t while ignoring that they do.
This makes another contrast, and another progressive/positivist inversion of the intent of the concept’s originators. The “free time” under consideration was formerly known as “schole” (the root of scholar), leisure time, understood by the Greeks as time away from politics (which far from freeing one’s time to allow for the intense study of nature, say, sucks it up by the buckets). This distinction lays at the heart of the insoluble (therefore nullifying) paradox of the Philosopher King, which once had a grip on political thinkers, but has been lost for centuries now.
i don’t think moats cost that much. its the alligators what bend the costs upward.
the more you know
that’s ok baracky we bitter clingers didn’t like you.
@22,
The irony, it burns!
Personally I think, while the spending incurred by refugees pouring uncontrolled across the border is a spending concern, that’s not my main problem.
Related.
I’m all for Amnesty as permanent legal residents for the Mexicans living here.
I just think we should get something of value in return from the Mexican government that can’t support its people. I propose that as a condition for Amnesty, the Mexican Federal Government relinquish the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur in trade. The U.S. would then annex these areas as territories, impose the rule of law and basic government services, and sell charters to Federal land in the states for agricultural development.
Viola, a nice, unfucked place for poor Mexicans to live and pick lettuce.
@ JeffG,
Erstwhile former Conservative Dave Weigel, now says news organizations accurately reporting Thomas Edsall’s article in the NYT outlining the same strategy reported in your DailyMail article above are RAAAACIST!!!!1!!eleventy!
Weird, that.
Remember when the Marine Choir Hymn was inspiring?
Oops, Corps, not Choir…
If we truly have a border war, and I agree that it appears that way, than we’re losing.
than->then
I prefer “you’re a fucking idiot.” More to the point and saves time.
[If I may…]
I thought Jeff was referring to Ernst’s comment as well.
An ironic aside, most fo the people commenting here are amongst the, ahem, “educated.” Resistance is futile.
Actually, if you get down to it, our government has been arming the enemy.
But, still, pandering to illegals is important.
He is not abandoning white people, as he only got 43% of their support in 2008. It is racist to suggest that he is doing so.
Yeah I thought you nailed it Ernst.
Team R is all about identity politics, same as the socialists
it’s just what America has devolved to I think
Not only are you a fucking idiot, you’re a lazy fucking idiot.
It’s like he sticks his fingers in his ears and goes “na-na-na-na-na…”
yeah well you are
Hell, I totally sympathize with red states that hate to see Californians move in.
IDENTITY POLITICS!!!
I sympathize too but usually the Californians move to the bluest parts of the red states, if you follow… that’s just how they roll
So if he wins, we won’t have to listen to his boosters telling us he’s our president too?
I don’t think it’s fingers he sticks in his ears.
you’re like the grumpiest man on the whole internet
Or maybe no one’s in the mood to suffer fools —gladly or otherwise— today.
you’re a strong number two Mr. Ernst you’re just not as consistent
“For the first time in my lifetime, we will have a President running on a message that he doesn’t represent all Americans, but rather, that he is hoping that, for those who vote with him, he and the New Left will be able to complete their decades-long attempt at a soft coup.”
Yep. A coup. Not an administration.
Sometimes I HATE being first.
Also:
But wait, there’s more!
Dick Butkus!
I like this idea of annexing Baja California. We could do a good job with it, I think.
guinspen
I was going to straighten out the translation but decided not to on account of it would require handling various inmundicias.
Also, ‘feets, the GOP is every bit as eager to lock up all that sweet Latino vote by pandering to them with talk of amnesty or the equivalent. Recall, if you will, that big immigration bill that the GOP touted and the beltway types including the WSJ editorial staff accused everyone who didn’t want to be fooled again (a la Reagan in 1986) of being knuckle-dragging racists.
And yes they are too a drain on our social services and education and such. They can’t NOT be unless they’re unable to access them at all.
Furthermore, many Latinos are really not who we want in our country. Consider the family who loads up on plasma TVs and entertainment centers and furniture and such under long-term installment payments, but instead of paying their bills they load all the loot into a truck and go back to Mexico. Having not paid for jack. Yes they do.
Or the others who live in McMansions and other houses in my neighborhood that are nicer than mine, and they can’t pay the mortgage even with several breadwinners in the home because they’ve got a television bigger than my garage door in an entertainment center bigger than that, plus new furniture every few weeks that’s nicer than mine, with every member of the family with a SmartPhone (which I do not have), and other unwise excesses.
So they go on foodstamps because a kid or two was born in this country, and the bolder ones join the LDS church to take advantage of a second welfare program (besides the gubmint one), and half the time they’re not even using their own name or Social Security number.
On the other hand, there are those who don’t ask for a dime and do the best they can and don’t live above their means, but they’re in the minority. Them we want. The others we don’t. Good luck finding a way to get rid of the latter but not the former.
you’re a strong number two Mr. Ernst you’re just not as consistent
And who doesn’t enjoy a strong number two…
people who sell the tired poor huddled latino masses plasma tvs on the installment plan have a certain loss ratio built into their business plan I think dicentra
plus they charge ungodly interest rates on the ones who don’t leave
it’s all good
and remember here in America there’s a good half-dozen homegrown pieces of trash for every maladjusted wetback you can point at
it all comes out in the wash
people who sell the tired poor huddled latino masses plasma tvs on the installment plan have a certain loss ratio built into their business plan I think dicentra
Theft is theft is theft, and them what does it is thieves. We don’t need it and neither do the good ones, who are mortified by the bad ones.
and remember here in America there’s a good half-dozen homegrown pieces of trash for every maladjusted wetback you can point at
Don’t know about the actual ratio of homegrown trash to Latino trash, nor do I have the means to determine it. But it does destroy the “they’re all good people who want to make a better life for themselves” meme.
it all comes out in the wash
No, it doesn’t. My original reaction to illegal immigration was that I didn’t care on account of I knew how lousy their home economies were and how their culture has something to offer ours (some good, some bad). But I also recognized that I didn’t know what the downside of illegal immigration was. When I found out that emergency rooms and maternity wards at bordertown hospitals were forced to close down because of all the non-payment, that was enough for me to say it ain’t right. That plus the prisons filled with actual Latino criminals (not just folks caught without papers) and the depression of wages and read what VDH says has happened since the uncontrolled influx (as opposed to the controlled influx, which they used to have).
Besides, nobody is saying Latinos can’t come live here. We’re just saying we want to say who lives here and who doesn’t, same as we do with Africans and Asians and Polynesians and all of the other lovely, poor, deserving folks who would make a nice complement to all the Latinos.
All the other countries including Mexico get to say who immigrates and who doesn’t. No reason why we can’t.
Someone sets up a tent anywhere on my property, I get the grenade launcher. It’s just a property rights issue. If the border were broken into 2 acre lots, given to those who serve our country, homes built, walls built, I’m sure those fine soldiers would protect their 2 acres like it was their home.
Strange that Obama does not protect his “acreage”.
It’s like “C’mon in. It’s a party.”
“Who’s house is this?”
“Some white guy. Don’t worry about cleaning up. Just get you’re drink on and stay as long as you want.”
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