The Obama Agenda and the New Global Elite

American Thinker ^ | September 22, 2010 | L.E. Ikenga

[george76]

By wearing a familiar mask of convention, Barack Obama will continue to dupe the majority of Americans into believing that he is -- at worst -- a run-of-the-mill, far-left liberal, even though he is not.

Picking up on the recent Forbes magazine article written by Dinesh D'Souza, Newt Gingrich concluded that Mr. Obama's ideology is probably far beyond the realm of mainstream American thinking. In an interview done for NRO, Mr. Gingrich was quoted as asking, "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"

I once called him the "African Colonial" in that he has essentially turned into the thing that he rails against.

However, for many, the notion that Barack Obama could possibly be familiar with, much less ascribe to, the various propositions of (African) post-colonial theory will continue to be dismissed as preposterous. Any attempt to bring to light, for mainstream Americans, its obscure paradigms as they relate to Mr. Obama's way of thinking will continue to be rejected, in large part, because of these four reasons:

1. Americans tend to use racial stereotypes in order to define anyone who is different in any way. Cultural, religious, and ethnic differences continue to be enshrined in insipid racial terms.

Many Americans supported Barack Obama in order to make history by voting for the nation's first "black American" president. These people's intellect was not subtle enough, nor were their experiences vast enough, to enable them to discern between Mr. Obama's cultural frame of reference and the color of his skin. They will continue to think in terms of decades-old tropes that aid in keeping our dialogues on race and ethnicity in a historical straitjacket.

Post-colonial theory is best viewed as ...two main varieties.

[lentulusgracchus]

They are all members of the New Democrat Socialist Party. They are trying to take down the USA. ... It is all about the money with these folks.

You've contradicted yourself. Which is it, money or power?

[unkus]

And remember that Hitlery is just much as if not even more evil than he is and far, far, far more intelligent.

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Exactly. She would make Hitler and Stalin look like Boy Scouts if she could get away with it. I’ve said that since 1991.

[lentulusgracchus]

Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man in the White House. He is the last anticolonial.

Not at all. Irridentist Mexican intellectuals, Chinese politburo and PLA leaders, nativist politicians around the world are driven by it. So it matters.

Right now it's driving the Mexican "soft invasion" of the United States, the Chinese "soft invasion" of the RFE/FSU, and, in another version, Islamic jihadism. The Salafists all got their inspiration from the silly little hater Qutb the Egyptian, who then sat down and wrote a long grito against the West, which stirred up some other people over there to take up the cry -- it's part of how Arabic culture works. A guy gets a beef, raises, hell, and pretty soon the whole community is in flames until he gets his issue resolved. It's the old "hue and cry" raised to a ridiculous level of reactiveness. But they're reacting against modern, European, Judaeo-Christian civilization, so they fall in part under the anti-colonial rubric.

[lentulusgracchus]

Ikenga is commenting on D'Souza by saying that the anti-colonial, Fanon-and-Said school should be looked at, too, since Obama obviously did when he was at Columbia.

Ikenga needs to explain, though, why one Leftist mass-murderer-wannabe differs materially from another, when their cultural differences would appear to be less telling than their commitment to mass murder in the name of their Utopia.

Ikenga might bring some additional racist motivation to the table. One thing that has never been raised against anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, is that it's essentially nativist and therefore (as Leftists here insist all the time) necessarily, endogamously, irreducibly racist to the core. The idea that only Indians are equipped to rule India was falsified by 200 years of the British Raj. So isn't it essentially racist to want to exclude racist British policemen from governing India? After all, they can do the job -- and isn't that the only measuring stick that "ought to" count, viz., competence and effectiveness?

Anyone try that one on lately?

[antceecee]

I will never forget Thanksgiving 2008 when I confronted those in my family who voted for the Kenyan with those same words. They mocked me. They could not comprehend how I could ever consider Obama to be be a socialist, much less a communist! They don’t really speak to me anymore, so not up on where their heads are at presently.

[george76]

the dreams of a drunk, socialist...Luo tribesman of the 1950s.

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