I'm amused by how two recent turns reveal Obama to be exactly what I've always said he was - to be kind [since I'm a bit of a fan of ol' Niccolo myself], a shameless Machiavellian in service to the uber left - to be less kind, an egotistical con man with a knack for selling ideological snake oil to naive white liberals - and of course I'm talking about how he pretended or allowed the misrepsentation to persist for quite sometime of having been born in Kenya in order I guess to burnish his 'exotic' post racial wonderfulness - and his putative change of heart on gay marriage which was in fact an entirely calculated and quite cynical bit of theatrics.
What's interesting is how the curtain being pulled back on the real Obama says something about those who will still vote for him no matter what come November - there are those who are so enthralled by the idea of him that they simply can't see the truth at all - these would be poor minorities, idiot youth, idiot Hollywood celebs, pacifist women - and then there are those who probably sense the truth about the man but are either too bought in to be that bothered by it or are in denial, they just don't wanna look at it, it makes them uncomfortable - college educated whites basically, the type that like to think of themselves as progressive but in the end this progressivity is more of an affectation than anything else, a comforting illusion as it were - and then there are those who see it, maybe always have [but probably not, more likely used to be amongst the blindly enthralled], but are completely fine with what they see because it serves the great liberal agenda - uber left academia and sundry other ideologues and the only slightly less uber left media.
What independent voters need to ask themselves - or what Romney is going to have to get them to ask themselves without actually coming out and saying it - is do you really think a president that needs and possibly very much wants to appease or serve a demographic like that - poor minorities dependent on big gov't, educated whites who work for that big gov't, foolish youth, moronic celebrities, socialist intellectual elites, pacifist women etc etc - do you really think making those people happy is like to result in an apt formula for the securing of a great and prosperous future for America? If you do, I have a European Union to sell ya.
But what if current demographic trends are distorting electoral reality in this disconcerting direction regardless of independents? That's a scary thought. Now, sure, Hispanics could eventually evolve into a more equitable demographic - as a cultural subset they're almost certainly going to do much better than blacks have because they are not hobbled by a resentment towards white, Western European culture - much as Asians do well because they embrace in many ways the best aspects of that culture - and so Hispanics, as their lot in America improves, could indeed evolve into more of a right leaning or at least reliably centrist demographic - but that's a process that I imagine could take 25, 50 years or more, who knows - be too late then, no? Certainly, if Obama gets another four years it's hard to see America surviving intact as a superpower long enough to allow for such a dynamic shift to occur.
