The ObamaCare Black Hole

American Thinker ^ | October 23, 2013 | J.R. Dunn

[gattaca]

Loved that movie.

[vbmoneyspender]

Back to Cocteau, who had a lot to say about the subject: "The problem with the modern world is that stupidity has begun to think."

Cocteau was referring to the brute ideologies of the 20th century, ideologies that required, first and above all, the truncation of the questing and questioning facets of human nature in order to operate. Liberalism has long since joined that lineup, long enough ago for intellectual sclerosis to have reached its peak. Obama is the perfect representative of this final collapse of the liberal black hole: the leading ideologue who believes just a fervently as his most doltish follower, because he has never been exposed to an alternative. Liberalism today is a collection of slogans vague enough to be slotted into just about any given situation. Obama mastered those slogans long ago, and believes that's all he needs to do. His cult, the media, and half the country believe it too. The chief error of ideologues of this type is that they truly think that they'll remain immune to the consequences of folly. But this is something not granted to any man. Stupidity twinned with arrogance creates its own nemesis. Obama has just about reached that point.

I'm tempted to agree that the insanity can't continue but continue it does. For example, look at what is going on in Virginia. Terry McAuliffe has a decent shot at being elected governor of Virginia. That's like having Shemp appointed as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In other words, having McAuliffe as a governor of an American state is literally incomprehensible.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You’ll grasp the connection when you do. :)

You may have heard of the character “Chauncey Gardner.”

[cynwoody]

I never though O was that smart. Just an adolescent with smart alec retorts.

He had damned sharp career counselors, however.

The American people acted stupidly. Twice. In 2008 and 2012. Rack up massive victory points for those advisors!

The Tea Party must now require that the Sheeple either back it out in full or take those consequences that elections do have!

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[Cincinatus' Wife]

His observations about Powers, Rice, Hillary (Abedin) and Jarrett ..

........No person of even normal perceptiveness would have hired this coven, or would have stood by as they left a wake of destruction and misery across the Near East and the Mediterranean littoral......

[Brad from Tennessee]

In politics talent can be mistaken for brilliance. Obama’s speech after winning the 2008 South Carolina primary could be seen as brilliant. Whoever actually wrote the speech might be brilliant. As a talented orator Obama was able to deliver those words to maximum effect. But all it takes is a few unscripted sound bites of Obama, like when he repeatedly pronounced the word “corpsman” as “corpse-man,” to see how frighteningly dumb is Obama.

[Lmo56]

He won the Nobel Prize!

For doing ... NOTHING !!!

[cherry]

I understood the creep in chief the first time I heard him talk...he says NOTHING of substance....he uses fancy words and roundabout words yet nothing is really sad...nothing notable....nothing except out of a script....

[Gene Eric]

He’s an actor.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A prop.

[cherry]

stupid people voted the creep in chief in, even some freepers...when freepers vote in someone like the creep, you know the whole country is lost....I’ll never forget..

[cynwoody]

when freepers vote in someone like the creep, you know the whole country is lost.

Alas, some are too simple to realize that staying home because McPain is McQueeg or because Mittens wears funny underwear is a failure to act for a better USA, and not a statement of principle except in their own minds.

[onyx]

Brilliant!

Jennifer Dunn reaches Rush's same conclusion: he's always the bystander, never the one to blame.

Obama is the perfect representative of this final collapse of the liberal black hole: the leading ideologue who believes just a fervently as his most doltish follower, because he has never been exposed to an alternative. Liberalism today is a collection of slogans vague enough to be slotted into just about any given situation. Obama mastered those slogans long ago, and believes that's all he needs to do. His cult, the media, and half the country believe it too.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More of Dunn's work:

Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies

" Biography - J.R. Dunn is a novelist, editor, and political commentator active both in print and online. His three novels include This Side of Judgment (1994), Days of Cain (1997) widely hailed as one of the most powerful novels to deal with the Holocaust, and Full Tide of Night (1998). He served as associate editor of The International Military Encyclopedia (1992 -- ), which has been on "hiatus" since his departure. Since 2005, he has contributed to the American Thinker, a leading political website, writing on military affairs, contemporary politics, conservative political theory, and liberal scandals and misbehavior. His columns have been reprinted, linked to, and discussed in publications as varied as The New York Times, USA Today, the Daily Telegraph, and Investor's Business Daily. He will edit the upcoming Military Thinker, the latest addition to the AT family.

Death by Liberalism is his first full-length political study, dealing with an appalling yet little-recognized truth: liberalism kills. Programs such as criminal justice reform, automobile fuel standards, deinstitionalization of the mentally ill, and federalization of child protection have delivered not the golden, utopian results originally promised, but failure upon failure, at times at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. As many as a half-million American citizens have been killed in the past half-century by liberal good intentions. "Death by Liberalism is a frank attempt", says Dunn, "to tear the mask of moral superiority from American liberalism to reveal how monstrous it truly is."

[Cap Huff]

Thanks for posting this interesting perspective.

“Depressive cons” - I think FR has become a magnet for depressive cons. The idea that the acts of incompetency were intentional always has struck me as too clever by half.

[Eagles6]

Good read. zero is just a puppet. Gets his orders from jarrett.