D’Souza’s book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” in my opinion contains the best explanation for Obama’s behaviour. It is rooted in his father’s Kenyan style anti-colonialism. That means shrinking America down to size and contempt for traditional allies. It also means a lack of interest in those issues that are of little or tangential importance in relation to these issues.
I think the author of this article essentially gives no answer to his own question, other than a vague statement that Obama is inept but has been used by various factions of the left - which does not explain in any way how such an incompetent got boosted from position to position all of his life, and somehow managed to get to the top of the heap in virtually no time at all and with absolutely no achievements or even track record.
The thing that is missing is that Obama himself actually does have an agenda and that is what keeps him going. But it’s not the same agenda as that held by the people who have made him and paid his way.
D’Souza was right: Obama seems himself as the ultimate anti-colonial warrior, fighting for Islam and against the West, and he sees himself as a messiah figure who doesn’t need to be bothered by petty details (such as having a program or how he will accomplish it). The left, on the other hand, saw him as the perfect vehicle, because his politics are like theirs (the politics of resentment which fuels Marxism) and his approach to the “solution” is like theirs: the imposition of a system that will punish the class enemies and give society into the control of those who will extract revenge.
However, the fundamental goals of Obama and the left differ. Obama wants to punish and destroy the US and the West for what he sees as its slighting of Islam and the Third World; the US left, on the other hand, simply wants to control the US economy and society, for the benefit of the leftist leaders and their chosen groups, and would not gain by completely destroying it, even though their policies would ultimately have this result.
In other words, Obama is a megalomanic sociopath on a personal quest, while they are ideologues on a scorched-earth ideological campaign. Their interests have coincided over the years, and this has enabled both of them to get as far as they have, with Obama being the endlessly plastic vehicle for their aspirations. I think what is happening now is that this alliance is collapsing.
Obama honestly doesn’t care what happens to the US, and in fact he no longer feels he even has to pretend: this is the reason for his constant traveling, appearance of interest solely in sports and black entertainment, and his parties and the high life lived by him and his family. Mentally, he left a long time ago; the job was beyond him but he wasn’t interested in it in the first place. He was interested in the position, but not the job.
The left, on the other hand, thought that he would continue to be useful as the spokesman and vehicle for their project. The problem is that he’s too incompetent even to do that, and they are beginning to realize that he really was never interested in it in the first place. He got what he wanted (power and position) and he realizes that there is now so much resistance to the left’s plan that his leftist sponsors won’t be able to give him anything more in that line. So now he’s already outta there, thinking of his next move.
I wonder what it will be. I’d say something international, because he sees himself as constrained by merely being president of the US, and he also is aware that the adulation is gone, and outside of the black Democrat and Islamic percentage of our population, he really doesn’t have much of a following. Neither of those groups is large, although they are disproportionately influential because of government policies, and they don’t give him the thrill of being worshipped which was obviously such a high for him over the years. So the question is, what’s next for Obama and the left, now that they are going their separate ways?
Amen
But.... there are all the leftist organizations out there that facilitated his rise. I think they were amazed when he actually became a competitive candidate and flabbergasted when he beat Hillary.