Whatever one may think of Stanley Kurtz [and there are some who think him a bit unhinged], he makes a somewhat compelling or at the very least fun to muse upon argument here concerning the true point of the Obama campaign, ie not simply about winning the election, but really about establishing a left wing insurrection carried aloft on the frenzied ignorance or somnolent dependency of a base the demographics of which seem to imply a possibly insurmountable uber liberal ascendancy.
I'm willing to entertain the legitimacy of that thought - and certainly it dovetails with theories I've thrown out there about the true agenda/schemes that might be motivating Obama and his minions and also the threat posed by the blind adoration he seems to inspire or invoke amongst the deluded, the simple minded, the hopelessly naive, the ideologically stupefied, not only when it comes to the blithering idiot wing of the left, the Michael Moored cadres if you will, but also within the ranks of so called enlightened moderates [yes, I'm looking at you David Brooks]. Problem is with these theories of socialist intrigue and revolution is that they run up against America's system of checks and balances which makes such a thing, even if you can pull off, hard to actually make work, as we saw in his first term where the midterms robbed Obama of power and his hyper partisanship made it impossible to get anything done. I suppose he wishes he were governing a true police state, a real Stalinist machine wherein he could just kill or gulag those standing in the way of hope and change - which I say only half in jest because this ends justify the means righteousness is in fact the go to rationalization of all true believers - or as Orwell famously mocked, you gotta break a few eggs.
But where's the omelette, right? This why the corruption of the press is so disturbing and why, even if Romney manages to win despite the debilitating bias of the media, all this talk about that bias from people like me has not been misplaced or over stated - you can not pull off something like this without a compliant media, a media enthralled by the idealist goodies being dangled in front of it - if the press and media have through bias removed themselves from the 'checks and balances' system, then you don't need to produce an omelette - or you can produce whatever crap you want and simply call it an omelette and the press, peaking out from under Dear Leader's robes, will dutifully supply the echo: "yes, that's an omelette - now shut up and eat it".
Now of course media bias is nothing new, and conservative presidents have been elected in spite of it - but what is new is the order of magnitude the 'ideal' made manifest in Obama has driven it to, as if no level of compromise is too much when measured against the dreamed of payoff down the line - nothing has made that more clear than the Benghazi scandal and the MSM's refusal to hold the administration's feet to the fire on it - the press has clearly decided that in order to serve the cause it doesn't matter if Obama is an astoundingly incompetent president, it doesn't matter if he lies - annoying realities like truth and competence must be made subservient to the greater glory.
This why, where six months ago I rated the likelihood of significant violence breaking out should Obama win an undeserved second term at about 20%, I now rate it at about 70% plus, mainly because Romney has now offered up a truly legitimate alternative to moderate and independent voters - if Obama still manages to win when there is a perfectly acceptable alternative sitting out there, a guy whose skills set and resume basically screams out "yeah, given our problems, you probably want me as your president right now" - if Obama, with his awful record and the blight of his negative campaign that hasn't even bothered to offer up anything that resembles a credible second term agenda, still manages to win there's gonna be a great many unhappy people roiling about in the wake of that who will believe, with some and possibly a whole lot of justification, that indeed the country has fallen to a left wing coup made possible by an indentured demographic utterly dependent on the sweet suckle of big government and a no less indentured press and media that view their own corruption as an honor bestowed on them by the cause they serve.
And I bet you, should things turn ugly, that behind closed doors Obama will welcome the violence - because when it comes to servicing the cause, everything gets twisted - if there's violence Obama will just turn it around and say "you see, I'm not the threat to the republic, it's those right wing extremists, it's those evil Teaparty types, it's those racists - rather than the violence being a warning about me, you should see it as a warning as to why you so very much need me". When it comes to serving the desires of false idols and the malignant irrationality of vain delusions, everything gets twisted.
