Yeah, this is the identical "logical argument" lodged against Mrs. Romney: She has no right to mention a word to her husband about matters financial, fiscal, or economic — because, in the words of Bill Maher (and Hillary What's-Her-Name's), she "never got her *ss out of the house to do an honest day's work in her life." So, what could she possibly know about "money?"
Same "logic" involved in both cases.
So twisted, so very TWISTED. Indicating to me a total inversion of Reality....
When are We the People going to start complaining about this state of affairs? In a (hopefully) effective manner?
Whatever. It seems to me that Obama plans to be reelected on the basis of successful (rhetorical) promulgation of the mantras of class and racial division — as his Chicago-based (???) campaign defines such "divisions."
And so I very much like your neologism, "self-referential exclusivity." It seems to describe the situation which Obama must try to provoke in order to be successful in recruiting new people (against all logic and experience) to His (electoral, political) Cause.
First, he makes his "target" think of his own grievances; then he tries to make that person think/feel/believe that the source of his grievance, of his own personal suffering, is someone else. The "magical doctrine" reads: The source of your suffering is some rich white guy. [Who is probably also a Jew, in the turbid imaginations of the deranged persons responsible for such an interpretation of so-called "objective," historical "Reality"....]
If Obama succeeds in signing up a majority of such "cultivated" morons next November, then We the People of the Preamble are utterly doomed.
JMHO FWIW.
Meanwhile, it seems We the People of the United States are "fiddling" while our Constitution — the order of our free, just, and equal society — burns....
Thank you so much for your beautiful essay-post, dear brother in Christ!
And thank you for the comeback.
Your posts are always a blessing dearest sister in Christ.
“Whatever. It seems to me that Obama plans to be reelected on the basis of successful (rhetorical) promulgation of the mantras of class and racial division....”
Spirited: Obama’s magic successfully mesmerizes because it speaks to what his listeners really want to believe about themselves and others.
Broadly speaking, Obama’s listeners fall into two categories: self-righteous do-gooders and victims, the patients and/or clients of the do-gooders.
Do-gooders (commissars in the Soviet Union) really want to believe that with enough power and money they can save the planet, save their clients (victims of social injustice), and perfect man and society. As they are impervious to their own capacity for wrongdoing, like stiff-necked bulls in a china shop, they trample, smash, bankrupt, and cause great suffering on behalf of their clients, saving the planet, etc.
Since clients—the victims— want to believe that they are in no way responsible for their suffering, real or imagined, do-gooders enable and perpetuate feelings of victimhood in order to empower themselves.
As the relationship between magician, do-gooders and clients is parasitic (enabler/enabled) it turns society upside-down in order to thrive. The upside-down society is the “total inversion of Reality” betty boop referred to.
In an upside-down society the covetous (envy-filled souls)are enabled to believe that they’ve been wrongly denied the property (i.e., status,wealth, success) of another. “Other” is evil-doer rather than the covetous ones.
The violence-filled soul is enabled to believe that the object of its’ hate deserves not only to be hated but likewise deserves whatever violence befalls the object.
The lazy, slovenly, and indolent (i.e. Occupiers) are applauded and financially and legally empowered rather than condemned.
Pathological liars are enabled to believe that their lies are ‘personal truth claims’ deserving of respect and consideration.
And of course “gays” are enabled to believe that state-and-school-sanctioned sodomy, bestiality, lesbianism, pedophillia, and pederasty really are valid expressions of ‘normal love.’
The magician is really just a more powerful mirror image of his self-deluded listeners hence he knows their darkest desires. He knows what they want to believe and his job consists in enabling and empowering self-delusion and fomenting disordered passions.