…in Africa.   Thus, the role of a country whose debt, with unfunded liabilities, dwarfs the whole of the world’s available currency, is to promise 7 billion dollars to Africa, with the stated goal of doubling the continent’s energy output.  So proclaimed Obama, who evidently views the presidency as a kind of power of attorney over US taxpayer money.

— This is, as I’ve been pointing out for some time now, part of a transnational progressivist strategy for global wealth redistribution — much like carbon credits and “climate change” — only Obama is less a true believer in the wealth redistribution as a function of helping the global needy as he is interested in the adulation that comes with the promised beneficence, and the political realities that come with what he’s truly proposing:  lots of money taken from the US taxpayer and given to Obama’s cronies in the field of “green energy,” where across the continent of Africa one can expect to see any number of Solyndras that, in a few year’s time, will be vacant, the money gone, and the net increase of energy for African country infrastructure near zero.

This is who this man is.  This is what he does.

Meanwhile, as Obama stands before the throngs of the Other and plays Henderson The Rain King, he works tirelessly on a domestic agenda that is intended to cripple the energy sector at home, and in so doing, drive up the cost of living, the cost of doing business, and the costs of mobility and productivity — all of which the Marxists know will lead to class unrest, increased dependency on government, and widespread social resentments (which Obama and his hive are more than happy to stoke and nurture).

And no one will call him on his hypocrisy, or rather, if they do it matters not:  anti-foundationalism leaves one immune to attacks that redound to intellectual consistency and embraces the doctrine of ends justifying means.  And that’s because it begins with the dazzlingly narcissistic premise that because progressives are willing to spend other people’s money to spread wealth about in exchange for votes and power and adulation, they are perforce good.  And good people can only do go things, though sometimes their best intentions lead them awry (for which, conveniently, they’ll always forgive themselves).  It’s the nature of the ideology that animates them, and it is reinforced by the linguistic assumptions that circumscribe them.

It is a profound shame that many otherwise intelligence people were so caught up in the social symbolism of an “historic” President — and the status they hoped to gain by either voting for Obama or else noting their policy disagreements while touting his fundamental goodness and earnestness — that they refused to see who and what was right before their eyes:  to wit, a post-partisan, post-racial pragmatist doesn’t hang around with domestic terrorists, community organizers, Marxist professors, black liberation theologists and critical race theorists, and the radical chic fringe actors in a volatile middle east, particularly those whose organizations have as their mission the destruction of a prominent US ally. He doesn’t speak of the Constitution as a “flawed document” while making intimations toward all sort of positive rights, doesn’t require of he US fundamental transformation, and doesn’t openly talk with dripping disdain of the bitter clingers whose gauche and quaint sensibilities, when combined with maddening liberty and a voice, problematize the grand designs of the Fabian progressives.

And more than just a profound shame, it may prove to be the fatal error that killed the republic and ended the American experiment.

All of which sound perhaps unnecessarily dramatic; but that doesn’t make it any less true.