An Unfortunate Milestone--The Accidental American

I have been debating for three weeks, whether to post my August Feature on the Obama Phenomenon at Free Republic. It raises issues that some Republicans would rather ignore, yet it is very relevant to the survival of America.

The Obama acceptance, despite the absence of traditional American roots--indeed, he is really here by accident, as his father was neither a settler nor an immigrant, but merely passing through, and his mother could not wait to run off to Indonesia, after the Kenyan left her--speaks to a condition of the public conscience that is being applauded on the Left. But it is not a healthy condition, for all the reasons that go into the continuity of a Nation.

The article begins:

The approaching nomination of Senator Barrack Obama by the American Democratic Party, is being heralded in the media, and among those prominent on the American Left, as a milestone in our political history. It is indeed a milestone, but the popular focus on that phenomenon is somewhat off target. In our opinion, neither the Senator's radical proposals, nor his partial non-Caucasoid ancestry, is the most significant aspect of his candidacy; rather it is the absence of what, in any other era, would be an expected reaction among rooted Americans to the Senator's success.

As for the Senator, himself, we will address what we think may be fairly stated, both as to the good and bad; what is fitting and what is not; what has merit and what has not, and the difference between gratitude and arrogance. We will also treat, briefly, the subject of change in any society; to distinguish between changes that are tantamount to growth, and those which are tantamount only to destruction.

William Flax

It is only because so many Americans have been conditioned by the media & Leftist academics to be embarrassed in taking pride in their own heritage & lines of descent, that the accident of Senator Obama’s Americanism is not the subject for humor at every dinner table; at the bar in every pub; on vehicles of public transportation; and in a million phone calls by the hour.
***Interesting take, but in today’s political climate this is quickly labeled “racism”.

Quickly labeling something, for which one has no rational answer, does not prove a point. The fact that so many are intimidated by the labeling process proves my thesis.

We must cut the Gordian knot of conditioned reflexes, as a result of what has been going on, or we are going to disappear from the future.

It is late, and I was perhaps too flippant in my reply to your #4.

Calling people who value their lines of descent; their common history of shared struggle, triumphs & defeats, with a common identity, culture, etc., nasty sounding names, is really a pathetic attempt to intimidate. It is even more pathetic when a people with common lines of descent, common history, etc., allow themselves to be intimidated.

Much of the rapture over Obama has come from those conditioned in intellectually corrupt classrooms, to feel guilty over having a once proud heritage. The Obama campaign has been fueled in part by this contrived neurotic need to purge an imagined guilt. We have to learn to recognize the difference between a reasoned argument and a conditioned reflex; conditioned as a result of Pavlovian dog training tricks, modified to be useful against human subjects.

The Left has no argument against the right of a people to preserve their identity. They have been trying to destroy the very concept of a nation by substituting brainwashing techniques for reasoned argument; and we have been cooperating by apologizing for the foundations of the concept.

Calling people who value their lines of descent... nasty sounding names, is really a pathetic attempt to intimidate.
***I know, but it shuts down conversation and they end up feeling real smug. Basically, it works. I have tried to do something about it, even right here on Free Republic and ran into the Pavlovian response. When I tried to open a thread introducing culturism and a book about it so we could all discuss it, the admin moderator pulled the thread saying it was “solicitation”. Of course, that doesn’t happen when Corsi’s book got published. I even freepmailed JimRob — no response. So if you feel strongly about what you just said you’ll help out in this effort.

http://www.culturism.us/

I looked at your link. The idea does not immediately appeal to me, as it seems an effort to make a distinction without a difference, rather than confront the underlying malady, which is compulsion & wish driven fantasy as to the nature of man.

Actually, it is in everyone's interest to attack the pretense of human equality directly, because it is the single most destructive influence on virtually all intergroup relationships. It causes ill feeling between the sexes, races, classes, families, etc., because it creates false bsaes for the analysis of social problems, which lead only to resentment, never anything constructive.

However, do not let me discourage you in any way from continuing to try to wake up anyone that you can.

While the focus of the article at the top of this thread is on the Obama phenomenon, my quoted statement in my reply to you, a little while ago, is a paraphrase of the intended subject for one of my monthly features before the end of the year. It is in everyone's interest that we start studying what makes different folks different, as it takes a lot of the animosity out of interacting. Of course, the Egalitarians & the other Socialists do not want to take the animosity out of interacting. They want to use it to take over and create a "Brave New World." Their life blood has always been playing on human greed, resentment, jealousy and hate--all that is base--while pretending to be "idealistic."

I am going to bump this link to my Feature on Obama back onto the radar, in recognition of today's interesting event in Denver.

By the way, has there ever before in American History been a political convention, where the likely nominee had his wife named the Key Note Speaker? Ever anything on a par with the pure arrogance of this?

One can only wonder at the hubris--the disdain for lifelong party regulars to whom the role might be seen as an earned, rather than appropriated honor.

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