For a very long time now, the Left has been telling us that the most wonderful thing possible is to be the first member of a fringe group to do something. The phrase “first black…” has been so heavily used it has lost all meaning. The Left now tacks on adjectives to sweeten the pot so we get combinations like “first black transgendered amputee….” but they have added in other groups to keep the racket going. Now that we have had the first black president, they want the first fake Indian president.
The thing is, we used to know that it was a bad idea to put weirdos in charge of anything. In this context, weirdo means anyone outside the core group. The British used to know that it was a bad idea to have a Catholic as prime minister. A major company would not appoint a confirmed bachelor as CEO. The French would never have a heterosexual as a general. In America, Nixon is a great example of how a bitter outsider cannot function in leadership.
Group hatred has always been an issue, but common sense was at play too. A distinct minority group was going to nurse a lot of grudges against the majority. If they ever got control of the levers of power, it was assumed they would exact some revenge. This is still well understood in the Middle East. Keeping the fringe out of power is a top priority. Examples of why are Iraq and Syria, where motivated and pissed off minority sects have killed a lot of people.
In America, we’re learning this with Obama. There was a lot of effort put into convincing us that even though he was black, he was not that black. Joe Biden called him clean and articulate, which was a way of saying he was not Jesse Jackson. Harry Reid mentioned that he was not a shuffling negro. In other words, he was not a black guy nursing a laundry list of grievances.
Of course, that has turned out to be total nonsense. Obama is a typical black guy and that means he is obsessed with race. All of his friends are black and all of his key advisers are black. All of those friends and advisers nurse the typical grievances we have come to expect from blacks in America. One of Obama’s closest friends is using race to dodge a trial of Obama cronies in Illinois.
Similarly, the Left is finding out that a taste for penis is not the only thing wrong with Chris Hughes. This nasty piece of work destroyed one of the Left’s great properties out of a fit of pique. Normal people who have had dealings with homosexuals knows that sexual inversion is just the bit of the iceberg we see with them. Under the waterline is a mass of crazy that makes dealing with them impossible. There are exceptions, of course, but prudence says you assume the worst and never put them in charge.
We’re going to find this out with Hispanics in the not so distant future. The Left is preparing the Castro Twins to be the next leaders. Both have managed to grow up in Texas, with a raging hatred of Texas and Texans. Putting them in charge makes as much sense as putting a foreign born Muslim in the White House so we can be sure it will happen. That’s life in post-reality America. Everything we used to know is forgotten and then painfully relearned.
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The trouble is with the Leftoids is that they regard normal people as weird. As they live in a bubble designed by mental minnows, reinforced by dogma and populated with prancing ponies sporting clown noses, they look out and see people with reasonable expectations as acting odd.
I know some lefties (by marriage, not choice) who made the journey to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral so they could turn their backs on the passing cortege. They were barely born when she was in power and their lunatic views have been stained by hypocrisy, but to me that was simply weird behaviour.
As I said to one of the slightly more reasonable ones afterwards, I wouldn’t go anywhere near a socialist’s funeral because that would be just plain crazy. I’d just be glad they are gone and leave it at that.
Weirdo in charge? – Affirmative Actioned, Peter Principled, Dunning-Kruger, Narcissist, Communist affiliated, Muslim educated, Liberation Theology indoctrinated, Wall Street supported, I don’t know, what could go wrong?
Here’s a hint, look for non sequitur hyphens in folks name/ self descriptions, and remember the words attributed to the Jedi Yoda.
“There is no TRY. There is DO, or there is do NOT.”(para-too lazy to “look it up”)
The British made over the middle-east back in the day with the understanding that recently invented Arab-Muslim states could only be ruled by a minority. A majority cannot rule there because it will happily exterminate the minorities. Then George Bush and his merry band of neocons proved them right. Democracy! We added that poisonous brew to their sewer just as our own was circling the drain. Which makes perfect sense.
I don’t see the One as Negro. He’s more a fit for the joke of my youth–what’s black and white and re(a)d all over? This is a method of operation Bill Ayers would approve of. The object has always been to destroy a self-sustaining society. The black pawns contribute little to that effort but theatre.
Of course. Any member of an “out” group who obtains power will tend to reward members of his group… which is ok when group identity is a tiebreaker. The problems start when it isn’t a tie, and isn’t even close. And therein lies the problem with what’s going on now: nature or nurture, for whatever reason there are not a lot of blacks who have the skills and the level of morality involved to govern in a democratic republic, so the choice becomes between a white guy who would be good at it, and a black guy who wouldn’t, and the black guy in power is choosing his own, who in turn are choosing their own, right down the line, so the whole “level” of government has slipped a notch or two. Add in the Democratic Party’s fascination with government as the be-all and end-all of *everything*, and we have a toxic brew that is driving *everything* down a notch or two.
I understand it. I don’t like it, and I’m afraid that our country may not survive it.
The French never put a heterosexual in charge of the army? That’s a typo isn’t it? If not I’ve just learned something new about Charles DeGaulle today!