Our New Sun King
Bookworm on Mar 17 2010 at 3:24 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Louis XIV, a despotic monarch, famously said L’etat c’est moi — I am the state.
Obama is inching in that direction. He clearly does not see himself as part of a constitutional republic. Instead, he views America’s “winner takes all” approach to elections, not as a two party process that’s designed to create a stability lacking in parliamentary government, but as the start of a journey that vests all and permanent power in him and his party. Petty little things like rules, constitutions, laws, honest government, etc., are in his way, and should be discounted entirely, whenever necessary.
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Forget Louis XIV, try Adolph Hitler. Hitler is Germany, Germany is Hitler.
Now see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGAgS8GzYg&feature=related
Unfortunately for Obama, the state does not die when he does.
It was just . . . unsettling to watch his interview on Fox.
I just wanted to scream, “What do you mean, you DON’T CARE about the process??????” That’s what we are about!!! We don’t have a king who just decrees things.”
Obama is a bad man. He makes me quesy. I feel like I have a ring side seat to an unfolding disaster.
The process is designed to limit the magnitude and duration of evil on the part of humans.
Because Obama believes he can bring about Total Transformation and maintain that state, anything in his path that hinders his actions is seen as an obstacle to good.
This is the Leftist Utopia, their vision and their pride and joy. It is what you must kill to defeat them.
To them, racism is a useful method to ending racism. To us the logic seems rather broken. But that’s because we see human nature as imperfectible, either by social programs such as religion or by genetic/intelligence/education modification. They believe they can make people… better. And by better I mean a state of permanent slavery. Their notion requires that there be no change to the status quo, once they have adjusted the status quo to end war, poverty, racism, classism, and various other things they dislike.
What then of human free will, the ability to succeed or fail based upon our own merits? They won’t allow such a thing to upset their Utopia. There will be no technological change because they will suppress it. There will be no innovation for it would disrupt the social good. There will be no freedom of expression or individuality because those become a danger to the stasis required for permanent peace and Leftist social justice.
In the pursuit of their absolute and total Good, the process is the least sacrifice of all. They would kill the entire population of the earth several times over if it could mean a guaranteed improvement in the human condition eternally. These are the people you are dealing with. Some are idealists. Others simply do what they do much as murderers and rapists convert to Islam. If there’s an ideology already out there to justify your actions, why not use it.
Islam has been said to be an idea that rests within people’s heads, forever making it inaccessible to death. I say differently. Ideas can die. You just have to go through enough people to ensure that nobody will ever adopt it ever again in numbers enough to affect human destiny.
Humans are rational and even self-rationalizing creatures. Give them a reason and they will believe it, if the reason overrides both their logic and their instincts. It doesn’t matter what the reason is. Ideas can die when people no longer believe in them. Even if we were to destroy socialism and Democrats, our enemy would still exist in humanity. That’s why the Demon Rats are enemies of humanity, not just my personal enemies.
Unlike the Left, I do not believe n a cause that lasts forever. It doesn’t matter to me that an idea will be resurrected some odd generations from now. All that matters is that we build a strong enough foundation that people will have a chance to maximize their potential. If they should fail, that’ll be their issue once we’re all long and dead.
Permanent peace, permanent security, is useless. Human liberty and the maximization of human potential will not come about from perfection, stasis, or Leftist ideas of permanence.
Ideas are immortal, one may say. Their deaths are not permanent. That’s fine. Because even if they will be resurrected eventually, so will the ideals I fight for. If eternal war is the price of human liberty, then war it be.
A perfect choice of quotes, BWR. Anyone who couldn’t see this coming has had their eyes closed for two years. Indeed, wasn’t it but three days into his annointment that Obama, in response to Republican efforts at birpartisanship on the Stimulus bill, famously told Republicans, “I won.” Indeed, he might as well have said “let them eat cake.”