You are right, it is amazing. I think part of the explanation is the left have developed such a raw, irrational anger and hatred toward anything conservative that they automatically cling to anyone who the right doesn’t like and then continually attempt to prop up that person (whether or not he is actually deserving of any props) as a way to “stick it” to us.
Of course there is more to it than that. Obama comes along at a time where his ethnicity is a huge plus for him and he knows it and plays it to his advantage at every turn. Conversely there are many whites who deep down feel it is their duty as a sort of reparations to be uncritical of him and shower him with praise in order to relieve the white guilt that has been hammered into them by the media and the educational system for decades now.
And that is where America is falling apart. We are being divided more than ever by race because racial divisions provide such an easy yet powerful political tool. More than that it has allowed the hard left to sneak candidates like Obama into powerful positions when they would otherwise have been rejected as too radical by most Americans. But hey, it’s high time we had a black president (who cares if he’s a closet commie). And it’s high time we had a wise Latina woman on the Supreme Court (who cares whether she is really qualified for it or not).
I agree with everything you say, Humbug, but would add a religious dimension to it.
Not every conservative is religious. But the conservative worldview itself comes from a religious worldview, specifically the Judeo-Christian worldview.
I have a God, and a heaven. Liberals don’t. So they’ve got to invent these things. Their god is government, and they tend to invest “messiahship” in whoever rules their government utopia. Whereas we don’t put our ultimate stock in government - or even particularly trust it - liberals invest EVERYTHING into their god surrogate. Government and their government messiah - and the utopia they want these to create for them - is very simply all they have.