With Obama now rolling out another bogus campaign concerning equal pay for men and women, a campaign based on lies and phony statistics, we recognise that it doesn't matter that the campaign is identity politics spam because the media will by and large legitimize the intent of the campaign and because the demographic it's aimed at doesn't really care if it's true because believing in it regardless of truth is so comforting - yes, my life sucks because evil rich white men [aka Republicans] are screwing me over.
But in thinking about how the Obama presidency, and basically his entire political career, is so utterly defined by these bogus arguments and identity politics bullshit that works because the media endorses it regardless of truth, you start to see a huge problem with the American political system as compared to the parliamentary system - meaning, when you factor in media bias, how the parliamentary system offers mitigating opportunities over the American system because, one, you have a leader of the opposition and therefore a unified message which has the ability to be much more clearly heard over the noise, and two, the leader of the ruling party has to go before the parliament and face direct criticism from the opposition, actually has to answer questions and endure pointed challenges to those answers - in other words, if you're Obama, you can't simply hide behind the protective phalanx of a sympathetic media, which when you think about is the whole key to Obama's approach to politics, an approach which Hillary will no doubt attempt to replicate in 2016 - media decided we were gonna have the first black president in 2008 regardless of whether or not he was worthy of the job or qualified to do it and a pox on anyone who dared to suggest otherwise, so to it will be for the first female president in 2016 [as long of course as she's a liberal - if it's Nikki Haley or some such conservative abomination, no, that won't do - progressives will find some way to explain why it is all women weren't in the end created equal].
Now of course there is a significant downside of the parliamentary system, namely if you win a majority you can essentially rule as you please until the next election - power like that in the hands of someone like Obama [meaning someone who the media refused to criticise for his entire first term] would be a truly frightening thing. Still, you get the point: if one views media bias, especially as it plays within a poorly informed and educated electorate, as the most serious threat to conservatism in America, then you see how the US system really works to the Democrat's advantage - which is why I supported Christie, I thought for a Republican he was uniquely suited to overcome this huge media disadvantage - and no doubt that's why liberals were so anxious to ruin his career over the 'bridge-gate' scandal.
But in thinking about how the Obama presidency, and basically his entire political career, is so utterly defined by these bogus arguments and identity politics bullshit that works because the media endorses it regardless of truth, you start to see a huge problem with the American political system as compared to the parliamentary system - meaning, when you factor in media bias, how the parliamentary system offers mitigating opportunities over the American system because, one, you have a leader of the opposition and therefore a unified message which has the ability to be much more clearly heard over the noise, and two, the leader of the ruling party has to go before the parliament and face direct criticism from the opposition, actually has to answer questions and endure pointed challenges to those answers - in other words, if you're Obama, you can't simply hide behind the protective phalanx of a sympathetic media, which when you think about is the whole key to Obama's approach to politics, an approach which Hillary will no doubt attempt to replicate in 2016 - media decided we were gonna have the first black president in 2008 regardless of whether or not he was worthy of the job or qualified to do it and a pox on anyone who dared to suggest otherwise, so to it will be for the first female president in 2016 [as long of course as she's a liberal - if it's Nikki Haley or some such conservative abomination, no, that won't do - progressives will find some way to explain why it is all women weren't in the end created equal].
Now of course there is a significant downside of the parliamentary system, namely if you win a majority you can essentially rule as you please until the next election - power like that in the hands of someone like Obama [meaning someone who the media refused to criticise for his entire first term] would be a truly frightening thing. Still, you get the point: if one views media bias, especially as it plays within a poorly informed and educated electorate, as the most serious threat to conservatism in America, then you see how the US system really works to the Democrat's advantage - which is why I supported Christie, I thought for a Republican he was uniquely suited to overcome this huge media disadvantage - and no doubt that's why liberals were so anxious to ruin his career over the 'bridge-gate' scandal.
