Monday, July 7, 2014

But about this Elizabeth Warren challenging Hillary stuff and the idea that Obama may if only by inference back the challenge - many are calling it absurd, especially the Obama backing Warren part, and arguing that if anything Warren is just putting things in place in the event Hillary, no doubt for health reasons, doesn't run.

Possibly - but depending on how much of an extreme or at least committed left wing ideologue you think Obama is, there is a way for the Warren rumor to make sense. If you believe the goal of Obama and his maenads is to by hook or by crook push the country so far left that it cannot swing back and so just remains stuck out there in lefty land, sustained by a democracy killing bureaucratic architecture and the co-opted and supine electorate that pathetically depends on it until an inevitable ruin swallows us up - then eight years really isn't enough time to put that in place regardless of how willing an abuser of executive privilege Obama is - you'd really need at least another eight years of Obama-like antics to pull such a 'quiet' revolution off - and that is how you could defend the Warren rumors as not being as crazy as you might think since she is in many ways a clone of Dear Leader who could, under his tutelage and with the help of the reality distorting machine he has built that can so effectively wrest narratives from the hands of truth and common sense, learn how to turn the grotesque into electoral gold by mastering the alchemy of identity politics.

It ain't necessarily crazy -  believing in the possibility of it is really just a matter of asking yourself how radical of a lefty you think Obama is - judging by his foreign policy, the failings of which most blame on incompetence or a lack of relevant experience but which could easily instead be seen as the perfect manifestation of an uber left worldview that by default considers American power and the US military to be evil things whose exits from the stage the 'global community' would be well served by - viewed from that perspective Obama definitely starts to look like a radical lefty ideologue. With that as your reference point, imagine what a Warren presidency would say or betoken to the world and America's enemies as opposed to a somewhat hawkish Hillary sitting in the White House - if you think the message Obama is putting out now is one of weakness and decline and retreat, a Warren presidency would be the equivalent of hanging a 'going out of the superpower business' sign on the door. And so if that's your reference point and you therefore believe that Obama is indeed an extreme or at least committed left wing ideologue then it would make complete sense for him to not only prefer Warren over Hillary but to actively, although possibly covertly, agitate for such a thing to happen.