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Posted on 08/09/2025 6:25:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Barack Obama’s presidency didn’t just strain America—it shattered its social fabric, fueling the political divide that made today’s bitter polarization inevitable.
Someday, when today’s young Americans look back in anger at what their country has become—and believe me, they will be angry—they will have their pick of culprits to blame for the sad state of affairs. If there is any justice in the universe, however, they will focus their resentment and frustration on one man: Barack Obama. Although the United States (and the West more generally) had been drifting toward collapse for decades, Obama’s efforts to “fundamentally transform” the nation were, in retrospect, the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.
Now, to be clear, I’m not referring here to something as small and meaningless as policy, foreign or domestic. As Presidents Trump and Biden amply demonstrated, policy can be changed and then changed back again, over and over and over. To be sure, the effects of these changes may be deleterious, and they may create substantively different outcomes than would have occurred otherwise. For the most part, however, the effects of policy changes are limited and, if corrected, temporary. Obama, for example, may have thrown the entire Middle East into flux and threatened the very future of the planet with his policy of appeasing the Mullahs of Iran, but Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, between them, undid most of that damage and returned the region to its pre-Obama status quo.
And nor am I referring to Obama’s inarguable and inarguably troubling role in the scheme to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign (and, eventually, his presidency) by painting him as an agent of Russian influence. Russia-gate is ugly and treacherous, and a significant number of players—perhaps including Obama—should be held to account for what they did and how they manipulated the nation’s intelligence apparatus to serve partisan political ends. Some of them—perhaps including Obama—deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison. This “scandal” is far more serious and far more perfidious than any other in American history—save, perhaps, the scandal of saddling the American people with an incoherent and incompetent president for a full four years, while others, still to be named, ran the country surreptitiously.
Nevertheless, Obama’s true offense is even more damning still.
As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, none of the people who deserve to go to jail for the crimes involved in the scandals noted above will ever actually do so. A handful of lesser players may pay some minimal price for their involvement, but none of the big players, who made the big decisions and committed serious crimes, will ever do so. The nation today is simply too divided, too thoroughly bifurcated along partisan and ideological lines for serious punishment, much less widespread acknowledgement of guilt, ever to be a realistic outcome. Regardless of what documents, investigations, or testimony may conclusively demonstrate, roughly half of the country will refuse to believe it, including many elected representatives. Even if their guilt could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama nor anyone else of significance, will ever pay a significant price for their actions. Today, everything is political, and political lines cannot be crossed, no matter how vital to the country’s future crossing those lines might be.
And in a very real sense, Barack Obama is responsible for this.
The evolution of the Total State—the state that no longer acknowledges anything as nonpolitical—by and large dates from the Enlightenment and its fostering of “liberalism.” From that point on, matters that had once been handled by families and communities slowly but surely became the purview of governments and, eventually, centralized states.
The inimitable Russell Kirk famously noted that “All history, and especially modern history, is in some sense the account of the decline of community and the ruin consequent upon that loss.” Much of that “ruin” can be attributed to the concentration of power in the hands of the centralized state and the expansion of that state’s jurisdiction to every aspect of people’s lives. There is no standard definition for the onset of “modern history,” although the Enlightenment serves as a reasonable approximate start date, given its ideas, ideologies, and revolutionary moral schemes. Those ideas, ideologies, and schemes radically accelerated the destruction of community and made the rise of the Total State virtually inevitable.
In Europe, the Total State grew steadily throughout the 19th century, in coordination with the nation-state and as an outgrowth of the consolidation of leftist ideologies. World War I, however, marked the line that separated the old from the new and signaled the inescapability of the Total States (and the slaughter that would accompany the descent from sovereign democracy to sovereign dictatorship).
In the United States, by contrast, the slide into the Total State largely happened in stages—four of them. The first of these was the advent of the Progressive Era. The Progressive movement was, more or less, the politicization of Protestant pietism. The Progressives—especially their intellectual godfathers, Richard Ely and his protégé Woodrow Wilson—were advocates of what is known as the Social Gospel, a religious movement spawned by the Second Great Awakening, which posited that the state can and should be harnessed to fix the problems of society and to make man’s existence more “Christlike.” Progressivism built on this foundation and largely succeeded in making the American state more religion-like, while also making American Protestantism more state-like. The damage done to the constitutional republic during the Progressive Era is both incalculable and still felt today.
The second stage in the growth of the American Total State was the New Deal. Hoover and then FDR expanded the size and the scope of the state dramatically, giving it almost unlimited power to impact the everyday lives of its citizens-turned-subjects. Those aspects of pre-modern American communities that weren’t destroyed by the Progressive reforms were finally done in by the New Deal. By the time World War II ended, the centralized American state stood supreme, both at home and abroad, and little could challenge its power.
The third stage of the American Total State began with the consolidation of power by the cultural Left during the 1960s. The New Democrats and their anti-war, anti-establishment agendas took what remained of the cultural remnants and pulverized them, making everything in man’s life subject to politics. “The personal is political,” the cultural Left insisted, and then, it did its damnedest to ensure that was the case.
Finally, in 2008, with the advent of the “Hope and Change” era, Americans were given implicit permission to hate one another for their differing “values” and to see one another exclusively as friends or enemies in accordance with those values. Rather than approach his election as the enormous racial accomplishment it was, the essential redemption of the nation’s long and sordid racial history, Obama chose to scold those unlike him and to turn them into the sociological “other.” He told his supporters to “fight” their political opponents, to “go low” when they “go high,” and to “punch back twice as hard” when confronted by opponents who resisted their proclamations of moral superiority. He and his administration demanded that supporters turn family gatherings into policy debates/arguments. He mocked his adversaries mercilessly and encouraged his “team” to laugh at them and see them as “lesser than.” In short, Obama took the political and cultural degeneration of the previous two centuries and made the acknowledgement and application of that “ruin” socially acceptable, if not socially mandatory.
As I said above, Obama arrived in the Oval Office and purposefully added as many straws to the already overburdened camel’s back as it took to break it.
Many political observers today think that Donald Trump is the most aggressive and uncompromising politicizer of American life who has ever existed. Whatever else he is, though, Trump is, first and foremost, the reaction to Obama’s action. Trump the politician did not spring, fully formed like Athena, from his father’s forehead. He was created over time, just like the rest of the American Total State.
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Our first muslim president.
He’s one of the Evilest creatures to have ever lived.
Criticisms leveled against the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder regarding actions that some claim undermined America. These criticisms often come from those holding opposing political views——the basis of a democracy——two sides.
Regarding Barack Obama, some have argued the following:
Executive Overreach: Concerns were raised about Obama’s use of executive orders and memorandums, with critics arguing he exceeded his constitutional authority in some instances, according to Senator Chuck Grassley. This included actions on immigration, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, notes the Cato Institute.
Affordable Care Act (ACA): The ACA, while expanding health insurance coverage, also faced significant opposition and calls for its repeal, with opponents arguing it represented an overreach of government into healthcare.
“Fast and Furious” Operation: This operation involved allowing illegal weapons sales across the US-Mexico border, hoping to track them to drug cartels, according to The Heritage Foundation. The program lost track of thousands of guns, some later found at crime scenes, including where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed.
Concerning Eric Holder as Attorney General, some criticisms included:
Operation Fast and Furious: Holder faced criticism and a contempt of Congress citation for refusing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious investigation.
Changes to Federal Law Enforcement: Holder’s modification of sentencing policies for low-level drug crimes, driven by a belief they were discriminatory, raised concerns among critics about weakening law enforcement, according to ABC News.
Enforcement of Federal Laws: Critics argued Holder selectively chose which federal laws to enforce or defend, citing his refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act as an example, according to The Heritage Foundation.
Black Muslim President.....
Obama tried to make the whole United States one big disfunctional, lawless Portland, Oregon.
I don’t know. The division goes back father. I think it started with Roe v Wade, and amped up in DC politics when Ted Kennedy delivered his “Borking of America” speech on the Senate floor. Bork was the first judge denied confirmation ONLY because of his views on one politically hot issue. It’s all been downhill since then.
0bama fueled the racial divide.
“Obama arrived in the Oval Office and purposefully added as many straws to the already overburdened camel’s back as it took to break it.”
The destroyer. He destroyed trust. He destroyed peace. He destroyed progress in race relations. He destroyed civility. He destroyed Justice. He destroyed the economy. I agree with the author except on one critical point. The actions of Obama, as it pertains to Trump and the use of government and the intelligence services to rig and control elections and the muzzle the voice of the people, was to destroy the Republic itself. Obama did this to remain in power, so he could continue to destroy.
The first step, IMHO, to regain a democratic Republic was to elect Trump. The second step is to expose and prosecute those who so willfully destroyed it. The third step is to set an example, so that those employed within government do government work and not Tyrant/Dictator work.
BUMP!
Obama’s pr3sidency ushered in a violent angry black racism. Oure nation switched f4om white racism (which had nearly died out, and pnly a handful of hateful white racists remained) to black racism, where I would say maybe the majority of black people jumped,on the black racism bandwagon because they were I spired by a racist president
I have a different take on Obama. I convenience it was Islam or communism that shaped the man or motivated him. It was pure narcissism. A narcissism that was epic in its scale.
He was raised to believe he was a messiah like figure. The world revolves around him. Then he was groomed to be a politician and told that he could be President. The superficiality that frequently accompanies narcissistic behavior was also astronomical.
The way he strutted, stuck his chin in the air all the while reading a teleprompter with words someone else had written. But get him off of the prompter for one tiny sec and he was almost Biden like in his utterings. “uhh uhh uhh uhhh” was all the flew out of his mouth.
Finally, he was easy to control so long as his handlers kept the ego candy flying his way.
And of course, the press went all in on him too. Anyone who didn’t toe the line got to know the ire of the narcissist’s tantrum. You dated not tell little Barack that he wasn’t the messiah.
And in a very real sense, Barack Obama is responsible for this.
Nonsense. Teachers' colleges did this, against the will of the people. Barack Obama merely played the predetermined role.
His mother would’ve been proud of him. /s
I remember how White lefties absolutely fawned over Obama, virtue signaling that they were going to vote for him, how well spoken he was, swooning over how he was going to unite all of us with his unique ability to bring the races together with his promises of “Hope and Change.” Nothing would change these idiots’ minds.
I saw an empty suit, a dumb anti-White racist who read off of a tele-promter and couldn’t get two words out on his own. Remember he spent $1M right after his election to make sure his school records were hidden - and probably destroyed.
I put him up there next to Biden as one of two of the worst presidents ever.
Everything about Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch lying quota baby was fake. And the media still pretends that this little dork was some sort of intellect. Sorry, I’ve trained and worked with blacks. They all were talented, some in STEM, some as pilots, but all were honest, moral, and achieved their success through talent, not total fakery.
I hope he is wrong about main players not going to jail. If none are locked up then America is done.
The truth is being revealed now. I never thought that would happen.
The Cabal that groomed Barack Obama and put him in the White House, took advantage of the gullible goodness of America’s soul, which had been touched by Martin Luther King Jr., who planted the seeds of hope that our nation’s civil division would be healed by a Black President. The Globalist Cabal Psy Ops experts recognized their opportunity to play on the goodness of the heart of the nation, in order to destroy it.
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