Posted on 11/26/2012 2:41:58 PM PST by J. Worthington
Why Barack H. Obama will be the last President of the “United” States
By John Gonzales
Consider the current rifts in our American society. After four years of this administration’s divisive rhetoric and policies, we have been divided - then subdivided - into a disparate consortium of “voting” blocks. We are a society that identifies its members by political party, race, income brackets, social and religious affiliations, then again: pro-life, pro-choice, the 47%, the dependant class, the wealthy, millionaires (defined by this administration as anyone making more than $250,000 annually), social conservatives clinging to their guns and bibles, liberals, Christians, atheists, tax payers, welfare takers, wall street, main street, gay, straight, illegal immigrants (sorry, undocumented workers), racists, constitutionalists, statists, and the list goes on.
Four years, during which our country has become more segregated than it has been since the great Civil War, with the central issues being slavery and individual states’ rights. The divisions ran so deep and wide, and the positions were so passionately held, that it pitted father against son, and brother against brother. So divided were we that we took up arms against each other. That was then, this is now.
Four years of entrenching the current polarization to the point of institutionalizing it in our politics, in our courts and worst of all in our schools. This generation of children, our future, will have been subjected to eight years learning and studying this new normal. George Orwell said, in his prophetic book 1984, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” Ask yourself who has control of this present, because their “narrative” will shape (and reshape when needed) the past for our children and therefore they will define our future.
Now fast forward to 2016, after four more years of the same shaping. How much more divided can we become? I earnestly believe that we can become much more separated from each other as Americans. And the more we separate from each other and allow ourselves to be categorized and identified in this manner, the deeper the trench, the wider the chasm, and the longer it will take to repair and recover the “unity” of being identified as Americans.
Consider that in just the last 60 days over 675,000 Americans in 50 states have signed petitions asking for state secession from our union. Of course, these (mostly online) petitions have no formal legal bearing because our constitution does not identify a process for secession, and the very act was deemed illegal as an outcome of our US Civil War. Coupled with the fact that these petitions have currently been filed by individual citizens, not state government officials, it makes the reality of secession highly improbable, for now.
However, if we apply the universal formula for dissatisfaction: that for every one person who takes the time and makes the effort to complain about a particular business, there are 10 other consumers who feel the same but do not express it. And by placing the US in the role of the business, and its citizens cast in the role of its customers, we can extrapolate that no fewer than 6,500,000 of our fellow citizens feel the same way, a bit more substantial. And although this still only constitutes 2% of the total US population, remember that those signers of these secession petitions are only those signing in the last 60 days or less. After another four years, I wonder.
Now, here comes the “catch” in my missive. I believe that change is imminent. Profound change is racing towards our country and our world like a tsunami. One that will bring difficulties that will dwarf any this present generation has seen. As Americans, we are facing the same national turmoil we witness today in Greece, Spain, Egypt, Libya, Iran, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, etc. Turmoil that enflames a divided citizenry, ignited because of financial chaos, politics or religion.
With four more years of this widening separation, and the clock ticking faster than the last 10 seconds of an episode of “Chopped,” I fear that restoring our “United” States may take longer than we have.
On June 17, 1858, Abraham Lincoln famously told the US "A house divided cannot stand." But today our country is exactly that - divided.
Nope. George Bush was the Last President of the United States. Due to parasites and traitors, obama now occupies the WhiteHouse. And will continue to do so for the foreceeble future.
I glanced at the headlind and thought “why” was “was” and it was a question. But, from my point of view, the answer still stands.
Americans are already split down the middle, though the two opposing sides are only just beginning to reach the point where our differences are great enough to repel us apart. However, those differences are real, and are becoming deeper and more pronounced with time.
There may yet come an incident or event that is the straw that breaks the camel's back, but what I see at present is an accumulation of acts by our government that have alienated and angered the right. The combined weight and pressure of these assaults against the guaranteed rights and liberties of the American people have nearly become too much for many to bear.
The cherry on top, is the result of the last election, which by all reason and informed analysis, should have gone to the Republicans. The shock of that loss was so great, and the evidence of fraud so rampant, that there's now a strong impression that the Democrats have rigged the system so that we can never win a presidential election again.
In short, there's a combination and accumulation of issues and assaults that have risen to unsustainable levels of pressure against the people. Just read this website. The bad news here can literally make your head spin some days. It's unrelenting, and serious enough to break anyone's faith in the union.
Well said.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see how things play out. I remain hopeful that this country will find a way to pull together and sort out some of our many problems.
Tau, our people are now cleaved into two distinct and diametrically opposed ideologies regarding the fundamental nature of our society.
One side has become solidly indoctrinated into a leftist, statist view, and believes that, "a government by the people, of the people, and for the people", means an all-powerful, totalitarian state which has the power to take from one, and give to another.
The other side hews toward the Framers' understanding of the principles and concepts laid down in our founding documents, and wishes nothing more than to be left alone in their pursuit of liberty and happiness.
The first group can't achieve their kind of utopian world without a host body of productive citizens to prey on. Of course, they can only do that with the help of a powerful central government which wields FORCE against the productive class to steal the fruits of their honest labors.
This is the nitty gritty of the current political divide. Everything else is just filler.
As long as we've got a significant percentage of the population who feel they're entitled to our hard won earnings, and who are more than willing to empower a rogue government to engage in legalized plunder on their behalf, we're not going to fix this. At some point, the preyed-upon run out of civil options to stop the criminal behavior of their government and the parasite class. I'm almost convinced that this last election was that point.
When a law-abiding, freedom loving people run out of civil options to obtain fair treatment in their country, they find other options. It's my hope that the good people of America choose the option of fighting this evil. Whatever it takes.
Perfectly put. Your profile is also spot on. Great to exchange ideas with a kindred spirit.
You bet, J.W. That's why I love this place.
“Secession is a fantasy of those who can’t bear to face the reality of our sovietesque future ...”
And dissolution was the fate of the Soviet “union”.
Not such a fantasy now.
Whether or not actual secession ever occurs, the premise of my comments were that we are so fractured as a society now, that if (when) a significant nationwide event occurs (war, depression, terrorist attack, etc.) we’ll likely not see recovery from the trauma for generations, if at all.
Maybe everyone interested in running for president should run in the Democrat primary. That might be the way to beat them at their own game.
This isn’t a bad idea. It makes more sense than efforts to start another conservative party to replace the dying GOP, at least in national politics. If we can’t beat the Democratic Party, join it, and change it from the inside out.
Well, we know that the average Democrat voter has no intelligence so it should be fairly easy to fool them.
You forgot Hollywood actors.
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