Posted on 12/30/2014 12:02:54 PM PST by jazusamo
In 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama signified that he represented a sea-change in the nature of American politics. Obama proclaimed that as a member of the younger generation — born in 1961, at the tail end of the baby boom — he no longer wanted to participate in the stale and tired politics of the 1960s. Instead, he wanted to thrust America forward into a "different kind of politics," one beyond the "psychodrama of the baby-boom generation — a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago — played out on the national stage."
Like most of what President Obama said, this turned out to be a lie. President Obama isn't merely a reflection of 1960s politics. He represents a return to those ugly politics: the nastiness of anti-cop sentiment, the divisiveness of generalized anti-Western foreign policy, the idiocy of a war between the sexes and against the exclusivity of the traditional family structure. President Obama isn't representative of a new breed. He is the child of the 1960s politics he once claimed to abhor.
Those politics, at least, had the excuse of an uglier America — one fresh with the wounds of Jim Crow, the sins of sexism, the controversy of Vietnam. Today's 1960s reruns seem wildly out of context. But that's the point: For the radicals of the 1960s, just as for the establishment Obamaites of today, context simply does not matter. When you are attempting to craft utopia, context is irrelevant — and human beings become either tools or obstacles toward the creation of that utopia. The vision never changes. Only the calendar does.
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Characters change. But the story never does.
Play the “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young” Quiz
“Chicago”
Though your brother’s bound and gagged
And they’ve chained him to a chair
Won’t you please come to Chicago
Just to sing
In a land that’s known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won’t you please come to Chicago
For the help that we can bring
We can change the world
Re-arrange the world
It’s dying ... to get better
all kinda 60’s throwback stuff will now be chic again?
Ah!.. the 60’s... when a War started by democrats and lost(on purpose) by democrats but blamed on republicans was HAD...
when a drugged america called out for LOGIC in a drug dazed quandary..
Pretty much like NOW....... only much less sever...
You nailed it!
Øbozo traded “psychodrama” for psychotic drama.
He was chained to chair because he was physically out of control.
Nowadays they’d simply put him in a small cinderblock room and have him watch on a two way cc feed.
He and his commie pals were always working behind the scenes since then to change this country and gain power, the pathetic part is that he got in because of the dumb asses who have no idea about what the commie agenda.
All the same crap that was shoved at us as kids in the 60’s and 70’s.
Except that in Obama’s case, he still actually believes it!
there we go...being rational....
It goes deeper than that for Obama. His family was hard left-leaning and I don’t think they did much to ensure that he had a balanced view and understanding of the political process. He was born to be a community organizer and civil agitator.
Lefties romanticize the 60's, but it was a generally awful era. Cuban Missile Crisis and darn near to nuclear war, race riots, high crime, crumbling cities, Vietnam, the Great Society expansion of welfare. They point to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that was one of the few good things in a rather bad time.
It sounds like it was just a move to clear out older politicians by appearing to be fresh and unencumbered by the past.
If an ambitious politician is trying to make room for himself there's some advantage in portraying his opponents as bogged-down in the past, solipsistic, or narcissistic, but that doesn't mean the people who make those charges don't have their own burdens from earlier days or that they aren't egotistical themselves.
Obama was helped by the fact that "baby boomer" and "Sixties generation" came to be identified with people born in the forties who went to college in the 60s. Younger people could have a lot of that 60s mindset, but might not be familiar, boring types to 21st century Americans.
When Obama references Clinton and Gingrich as examples of “the psychodrama of the baby boom generation — a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago — played out on the national stage,” maybe what he's really saying is that he's not a fat old White guy, not that he's actually free of Sixties thinking or Sixties conflicts.
And of course, the assumption at the time was that "moving beyond the tired ideological battles of the 1960s" just meant agreeing with Obama's formulation of liberalism.
Thanks for linking the 2007 article.
You and Shapiro are right, 0bama will say or do anything for appearances and most are lies but he never looks back.
Nice observation.
Most of us came to our senses, but they did not and now they brainwash kids at schools and colleges to keep their communist radical left agenda going when they have gone.
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