Obama in Nightmare Alley

“narcisistic sociopaths”

I had begun to perceive an amlost sadistic-like quality to Obama, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But Spengler did:

the thrill lies in the deception and the sense of power it brings.
the secret knowledge of having deceived everyone else.

You guys are missing one vital factor in this equation: the people of the United States. They love Obama, no matter what he does, because is a a young, hip black man — the perceived opposite of the old, evil white men that they hate.

(And with good reason. The old, evil white men that run most of America’s companies, churches, and other institutions are among the most stupid, venal, and vindictive individuals that have ever lived. They make themselves easy to hate.)

People love Obama for more than his perceived Outsider status, though. They also love him because they have been carefully and subtly propagandized over the years by the entertainment media to perceive white, Christian people as villains, and blacks and members of other races and religions as hip-talking, smart, sexy heroes.

The only way to overcome this sort of programming is to get up right now and throw your TV out with the trash.

But you won’t. You can’t. You love TV.

The news and entertainment media in this country control the opinions of the American people. And this is why I oppose democracy, and all forms of representative government. In any state where political power is derived from the consent of the governed, the REAL power lies in the hands of the most successful demagogue. And with today’s media a his command, a demagogue’s power to manufacture consent in the minds of the majority of voters is simply too great to be countered.

Obama is so well-loved because God has given him a gift — the only true “superpower” that exists. This is the gift of charisma — the power to lead men, to make them love you and obey you out of personal loyalty. In the hands of a Christian, charisma is a powerful force for good. And while Obama claims to be a Christian, his support for legalized abortion and same-sex marriage among other things shows that he is at the very least helping the work of the Enemy.

The only way to defeat an opponent with charisma is for another person with charisma to overcome him. And while a few people on the political right in America have charisma (e.g. Sarah Palin), the Enemy-controlled news and entertainment media will never permit such a person to rise to prominence. Unless the power of the media is broken (see “throw out your TV”, above), any charismatic leaders on the Right will be ridiculed mercilessly and relegated to obscurity.

So what is to be done? First, a defensive strategy: shift your efforts to the home front. Educate your kids in the values and traditions of Western civilization. Resolve to turn your home into a miniature monastery — a place where the knowledge of the Truth is preserved. Then go on the offensive — not with violence or political protests, but one on one. Form alliances with like-minded rightists in your town and share knowledge, information, and resources. Take over your church or parish and transform it into a true community — a home-grown “welfare agency” where its members can turn for financial, spiritual, medical, and emotional help when times get tough. Propagandize your neighbors and acquaintances who are on the side of the Enemy — not by argument (which won’t work) but by planting seeds of doubt in their minds. “Water” these seeds by returning love for hatred, by being a friend to all, especially to those who call you names or try to harm you. In time, the seeds of doubt will sprout and begin cracking the shaky foundations that support their media-created opinions. Be patient.

And have hope. Sooner or later, the current world system will fall. It is based upon false premises and in unsustainable. Our goal is to live until it all comes crashing down, survive the Fall, then crawl out of the wreckage with our civilization intact within our minds and hearts. Once the power of the current system is broken, we will be free to establish a new society, based on the traditional ideas and eternal values of the Judeo-Christian West — among which is not, thank God, the notion of representative government.

Until the Fall, then, learn all you can, keep your eyes open, and pray.

charisma

Obama has about as much of that as a maggot.

Most people in the world love him — not his policies, but the MAN himself. That’s charisma.

About one month ago in response to an article which appeared here a Free Republic recounting Obama's achievements in organizing the voter drive in the Illinois which led to the election of Carol Moseley Braun, I commented as appears below. At that time I did not draw a distinction between a sociopath (public model for which to me has always been Bill Clinton) and a narcissist. As you point out, I am still not sure that the distinction is valid or at least useful.

And I am very wary of indulging in a favorite pastime of the left which is to psychoanalyze Republican candidates to their discredit. On the other hand, can one truly understand Richard Nixon if one does not put searchlight on the Demons? Can one understand the near superhuman drive of Lyndon Johnson without seeing a super human ego? The distinction between Nixon and Johnson on the one hand and Obama on the other hand is twofold: the former two have real accomplishments to their credit and Obama, as I try to point out in my reply below, does not. Nixon and Johnson in their own way betrayed personal foibles which illuminated their psychological conditions. But Obama does not philander, does not drink, at least in excess, maintains a healthy workout regimen, in public at least is always in possession of his savoir-faire, and his worst personal character flaw seems to be an occasional furtive cigarette.

Indeed, the opposite is true, he asked almost perfect pitch for his audience. If one listens to the replay of the old public radio tape of his calling for a civil rights movement to redistribute wealth, one would swear one was listening to it professional announcer on National Public Radio. When he addresses SEIU Or Acorn he can get down for the struggle. He has no difficulty whatever in appearing presidential. The man is a chameleon-a sign of a sociopath.

The article poses a warning which I think bears attention:

As things go badly wrong and adulation turns into antagonism, we may see a very different side of Obama than he has succeeded in presenting to the public during the past two years.

I have been posting for a long time that I see danger in Barack Obama getting us into a war when his personal power is challenged. This, of course, is contrary to the views customarily expressed here on Free Republic that Obama is neutered by his ideology and his foreign policy will be a reprise of Jimmy Carter's, but on steroids. I think that you this is a real danger in the man which the author points alludes to.

Here is the reply:

To those conservatives who indulge a psychological need to disparage the talents of Barack Obama, this article should serve as a well earned slap in the face.

To those conservatives, like myself, who are arm chair bean counters in the game of handicapping elections, let this article be a disquieting wake-up call that many of our assumptions upon which we hope conservatism will build a come back may be as ill-founded as the bluster of those who downgrade Obama's talents.

First, the matter of Obama's talent, or better put, his charisma. Sometime ago I wrote a post which I think captures Obama and explains why his combination of charisma and shallowness make a very dangerous political combination, but one with undeniable electability:

"I think he is a narcissist who survives and prospers not by addressing problems but by manipulating people. Narcissists like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama are not stupid, they are wonderfully clever and exceedingly effective in reading their victims and manipulating them.

I think that Barack Obama has a worldview provided to him, posthumously, by Saul Alinsky which gives him a framework for analysis. In other words, Obama does not "analyze", rather he "sorts" and puts data into their appropriate slots provided by the philosophy of Saul Alinsky. He has learned a vocabulary which enables him to contrive a front of effectiveness, a seriousness of purpose and depth of character which is all a sham.

Think of Barack Obama as the professional coordinator at its Alinsky meeting. For those old enough, think of Barack Obama as the leader of an EST meeting of the 1970s. These experiences give him an eschatology, a vocabulary, a forensic ability to manipulate, and ego satisfaction. What was he doing as editor of the Harvard Law Review if he was not producing actual work? He was acting out as a community organizer with the shtick modified to fit a new venue. If one examines his career at every level the pattern is the same. As a constitutional law lecturer he produced no written work but he was evidently perfectly fit to the culture of the law school. In the Illinois Senate he voted present but ingratiated himself with the Daley machine. He barely passed go in the United States Senate but he knew the vocabulary and he passed muster with the likes of George Soros. In each instance, Barack Obama behaves as a narcissist, very shallow, producing no work product, but selling a great package.

If one takes away the Marxist belief system provided to him or reinforced in every step of his development from his mother to Frank Marshall Davis, to Columbia University, the Harvard Law school, William Ayres, to Reverend Wright, one is left with a truly hollow man. That is why Obama is such a dangerous ideologue. There is no Obama apart from a lifelong sham, a compensation for always being advanced beyond his competence because of his race and his ability to manipulate. He simply cannot stop the act and get off stage because there is nothing but the act.

Obama is a man without a soul and without a spiritual compass. His relationship to Reverend Wright reveals that he has no real spiritual quality to him for there could hardly be a more right apostasy in the church which he attended for 20 years. It has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with ego satisfaction. It is the opposite of the Judeo-Christian message.

Obama cannot abandon his radicalism because there is no other there there. He is a massive compensation system. His body is a life-support system for his narcissism and the narcissism is utterly dependent on the received wisdom from Saul Alinsky and the rest of them."

Viewed from the perspective of this article, one might properly question whether I got it wrong about Obama relying on his ability to manipulate rather than upon him a capacity to produce honest results. Reading the article, it appears that Obama's success was primarily a public-relations phenomenon in enlisting black McDonald's owners and black radio station owners. The worry is that the voter registration drive is a model of both public-relations sensitivity and dynamic management skills in organizing and harvesting the black vote. If I got it wrong, if it is the latter, if the Chicago voter operation is truly an example of honest results, it is ominous in the extreme.

This interpretation is ominous because we can find parallels to the 2008 election and to Obama's course of governing. The enlistment of black radio station owners and the attempt today to kill talk radio by forcing it into African American hands stands as an example.

The article speaks of Obama's training 700 registrars. This echoes my remarks about his forensic skills and narcissistic needs merging as was the case for EST trainers of the 1970s. This explains much of Obama's need daily, actually by count more than daily, to appear on television. It also confirms the foolishness of those who complain that Obama cannot speak without a Teleprompter.

Is Obama only a narcissist, a Bill Clinton style sociopath, or is he the real deal as his supporters claim, a man who has unperceived talents to produce honest results and organize a Chicago voter drive, a successful primary campaign, a successful presidential election campaign? Parenthetically, it is interesting to note that when pressed for a single qualification which entitled Obama to be president, his supporters fell back on his ability to run a campaign.

G. Before we conclude that Obama has wonderful organizing skills, let us note that in each of these three incidents, all three of them campaigns, Obama was working with race. In the voter drive it was 100% a race effort. In the primary campaign it got down to a nasty slugfest over race between Obama and the Clintons. In both the primary and in the election campaign Obama enjoyed virtually 100% black voter loyalty. Equally important, in those two campaigns he enjoyed unprecedented media support and that media support was predicated on race.

Conservatives clearly will observe that Obama's alleged organizing skills are not so apparent when it comes to governing. But let it be considered for a moment that the governing of the Obama administration still rests on only two legs: the race card and the Saul Alinsky world view.

Leftist ideology is based on a psychopathic indifference to the welfare of the individual, and the unabashed use of deception in pursuit of an agenda which has no particular public support.

Imperative T-shirt Phrase Award.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

“the people of the United States love Obama”

Some...but most loved the “image” of Obama; they bought the PR & the propaganda. They are slowly waking up to the fact that they got conned-—

That’s why Obama keeps campaigning. He’s trying to get the “magic” back...and it’s wearing thin.

This was all covered before the election,but Obama was elected anyway.

one is left with a truly hollow man. That is why Obama is such a dangerous ideologue. There is no Obama apart from a lifelong sham, a compensation for always being advanced beyond his competence because of his race and his ability to manipulate. He simply cannot stop the act and get off stage because there is nothing but the act.Obama is a man without a soul and without a spiritual compass. true, true, true.

There is no Obama apart from a lifelong sham, a compensation for always being advanced beyond his competence because of his race and his ability to manipulate.

There is a segment in Dreams Of My Father where Obama (Ayers?) is considering his future. He arrives at the adoption of a paticular persona -- The Non-threatening Black -- as the most promising way forward.

He defines and refines the persona, actively practicing it. Soon, he is editor of the Harvard Law Review. -- without having actively campaigned for the job. He had learned how to get something without actually earning it. And, once he had he job, he discovered that -- because he was what he was -- it wasn't necessary for him to do any real work.

The Presidency is nothing less than the ultimate achievement of The Non-Threatening Black. And, yes, it really is all an act.

Would such a hollow person abuse his office by starting a war -- if he thought it would regain him respect and authority? Damn right! It's a sure way to keep the act on center stage...

“Oh cripes. If we start listening to shrinks we are doomed.”

Ser, I must atree. Spengler’s, essay is full of kinda goofy metaphors; clinical narcissist, optimal margins, to build up real nutty conclusions, “sociopaths and narcissists”…belong to the same cluster. Then concludes with an “At some point, if my analysis holds water” prediction. It is well written and all in all, sorta fun read.

Not to be taken to seriously.

Rab

Thank you for pointing out Obama's (or Ayers') biography which makes Obama actually sinister. I have long entertained the the idea that Obama cleverly exploited his race to advantage but I sort of assumed that he fell into the role. Your reference is clear that the whole act was calculated from the very beginning.

Nearly 6 months before the presidential election, I wrote this reply exploring the dynamics of white guilt and the Obama persona:

The Big Race - Obama and the psychology of the color barrier

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:19:17 AM · 3 of 11 nathanbedford to The_Republican

Obama's connection with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, which exploded into the news after the Ohio primary, may do lasting damage to his candidacy by undermining his attempt to transcend race. Wright's words tie Obama to the stereotype of the angry, hostile--and also unpatriotic--black who is seen as hating both whites and white America. Wright turns Obama into a "black candidate" like Jackson or Sharpton. And, as a black candidate, Obama falls prey to a set of stereotypes about black politicians.

In the end, the lesson of political psychology for Democrats is not to avoid nominating black candidates. It is simply to understand that America's racial history continues to influence the calculations of voters--sometimes near the forefronts of their minds, sometimes in the deep recesses of their unconscious.

For years on this forum I have been posting my belief that Tip O'Neill had it wrong: All politics is not local, in America all politics is racial.

The and rest of the article confirms what I have said in post from last week, especially the part about the surviving rationale of liberalism is their belief that we are racist and they are not. Here the author betrays that liberalism will never let go of this notion no matter how deep they have to mine the subconscious to dig up pseudoscience to justify it.

Here is the bulk of my post from May 9. I reproduce it here while I consider whether I should accuse Mr. Judis of plagiarism of my idea:

Yes Obama is an empty suit but he is actually more than that, he is a candidate who is African American and this racial reality entirely disguises the fact that the suit is empty. In fact, it was always better for Obama's campaign for the suit to be empty.

The American left, indeed the international left, is a hodgepodge of mutually inconsistent plans and programs which history has demonstrated cannot work. Leftists persist in their leftism because they believe that they are smarter than everybody else. Which really means," I am smarter than all the leftists who've come before and failed with this idea." The glue which holds leftism together when it should splinter apart because of its mutually inconsistent precepts, because it has shopped the entire country to ravening special-interest groups, is their idea that Republicans/conservatives are racists and they are not.

As long as we are racists and they are not, the left need not face up to its own looniness. This is why the left reacts so vehemently to politically incorrect racist remarks.... The coin of this political race card is white guilt.

Now comes Obama. As one black writer has pointed out, he has made a tacit deal with white liberal America: you support me blindly and I will in turn refrain from rubbing America's nose in its history of slavery and segregation. You can expiate your white guilt by voting for me. But Obama has to hold up his end of the deal, he must not rub our noses in our sins like Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al. As long as he was seen to be an empty suit-offering no reproach to America-we were comfortable with him.

Now comes The Right Reverend Wright. He has broken the deal. This is why Obama had to disown him. Wright rubs our noses in racism. To a conservative his crazy allegations are so bizarre that it makes not much sense and doesn't change the equation. We don't buy into this AIDS in Africa business, for example. But for a liberal, Reverend Wright's allegations are not bizarre but actually within the realm of intellectual respectability. We can dismiss them, but the left cannot because much of it comes right out of their own catechism.

What about the great mass in the middle? The moderates, the undecideds, the people who don't follow politics until after Labor Day, the folks who permit the likes of Barbara Walters or Oprah Winfrey to persuade them, what about them, the people who actually decide our elections? These decent folks don't want to be racists. They are always looking for a savior because they will tell you, "I always vote for the man." They shrink from the very idea of voting based on ideology. So an empty suit is no problem for them as long as he is also a savior. Obama was a savior. More, he was an empty vessel into which we could pour all of our yearnings and our simplistic hopes about the political process.

Now this illusion has been shattered by the right Reverend Wright and it remains to be seen whether the mainstream media can put Humpty Dumpty's pieces back together again.

"... Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country."

No duh, Spengler. I'm no headshrinker, and I'd never play one on TV, but even I could sense that homobama is deeply torn. He so hates his white half that he's willing to use his black half to destroy himself entirely, but not before he can ungratefully inflict as much damage on the country that has given him so much.

“Oh cripes. If we start listening to shrinks we are doomed.” ~ Serusawa

“Ser, I must atree...” ~ Rabin

I don’t.

“Obama seems to suffer from malignant narcissism whereby he feels he is exceptional, acts like he is exceptional and his followers believe he is exceptional. On the basis of his followers opinion, Obama feels even more justified in his exceptionalism...”

“..another manifestation of his malignant narcissism: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2241286/posts?page=22#22

To nail that reality down further:

“..The pathological narcissist imagines he’s giving you milk when he’s actually feeding you poop; in short, he’s not a bountiful breast but a toxic a$$hole. Once you get a feel for this, you can really appreciate the ubiquity of the dynamic. Ever wonder how Noam Chomsky can be so prolific? Because the large intestine never sleeps. Likewise, mass culture is a sewer. Literally. ...

...Look at Obama. What is he? That’s part of the problem, because he clearly doesn’t know. He’s certainly not “priestly” or spiritual, based upon his long-time membership in a racist cult. He’s not intellectual, based upon his skin-deep grasp of the issues, and a mind that seems to consist of little more than recycled leftist cliches with no discernible center. He’s not a warrior; quite the opposite, as he has no feel whatsoever for military culture. He’s not a leader, as his basic masculinity is too much in doubt. He’s pretending to be something, but even he doesn’t seem to know what it is. Apparently, he wasn’t even a good community agitator, like Al Sharpton. ..” ~ Gagdad Bob (aka Robert Godwin, Ph.D Clinical Psychologist)

Here: Beauty, Milk, Poop, Soul Jazz, and the Miscaste Obama

8 posted on 07/18/2008 5:28:20 AM PDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047396/posts?page=8#8

More:

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Narcissism, the Grandiose Left, and the Missing Strawberries
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/07/narcissism-grandiose-left-and-missing.html

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25 posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 11:26:50 AM by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190002/posts?page=25#25

More: http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/2236040/posts?page=103#103

Even a redneck knows what opprobrium is. It’s the sauce used for basting barbecued opossum.

Bummer is not a person, he is a committee.

Excellent piece from Spengler....read the whole thing not just the excerpts.

that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country.”

So let it be written,
So let it be done.

I'm reading the article now. I'll get back to you after supper. Thanks for the ping.

Obama spends more time talking to HIS army of attorneys about keeping his past hidden and fighting FOX news, Glenn Beck and Rush that he has lost all perspective of what direction the country is heading.

we should see behavior from Obama consistent with the other side of antisocial personality disorder. Again, from DSM-IV: “Impulsiveness is often present, including angry outbursts, failure to consider consequences of behaviors, irritability, and/or physical assaults.” As things go badly wrong and adulation turns into antagonism, we may see a very different side of Obama than he has succeeded in presenting to the public during the past two years.

I devoutly hope so. I hope he throws a very public and embarassing temper tantrum at someone on his side who can and will retaliate. I don't want a conservtive involved in any way. I want the left to own all of this fail. I hope they destroy each other and leave us to rise again.