We have seen how this works in our modern universities in which, operating under the critical theory provided by The Frankfurt School, conventional history is "deconstructed" and a new reality is substituted. We see this baleful phenomenon prominently at play in black studies departments and women's studies departments. But the cancer has metastasized deep down into our educational system touching even kindergarten kids.
So when Obama speaks hypocritically and utterly dismisses history, even history that he himself had personally created, it is not so much a question of arrogance, although arrogance is a necessary precondition for this kind of intellectual vacuity, but it is rather a spasm of ideology. Obama cannot conceive that George Bush, the apotheosis of cracker conservatism and the hyper patriot who personifies America as the aggressive obstacle to the on-March of Marxist destiny, could possibly play any role other than that preordained by his Marxist ideology.
For Obama, ideology is history and therefore to Obama it is history that says Bush: bad, Obama: good. Obama has an eschatology cobbled together from Marxism and Black liberation theology. It is virtually immune to reality. Just as the African-American community which has demonstrated by its votes decade after decade that it is utterly immune to the reality of their political condition in America's cities, a plight which that ideology has visited upon them. Reality, as Mae West said about goodness and the process by which he acquired a diamond ring, has nothing to do with it.
Alas, Obama's distorted eschatology is not an isolated example of the triumph of ideology over reality.
