Of all of the closet-totalitarians on the left, there is none greater than President Barack Hussein Obama.<\/p>\n
A couple of centuries ago, Goethe said: \u201cTell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.\u201d\u00a0 Over 100 years later, John Ruskin made a virtually identical point: \u201cTell me what you like, and I\u2019ll tell you what you are.\u201d\u00a0 When we want to know more about what motivates terrorists and criminals, we cling to this pearl of wisdom by looking at their relationships and the ideas that they\u2019ve imbibed.\u00a0 Yet when we want to know what motivates our President, <\/i>many of us, those in the media particularly, ignore this time-honored wisdom.<\/p>\n
That Obama is perhaps the greatest of contemporary closet-totalitarians is borne out by the following considerations.<\/p>\n
First, Obama spent a considerable portion of his childhood in the Islamic society of Indonesia.\u00a0 There, he was educated as a Muslim at a madrasa, an Islamic school.\u00a0 That his paternal family in Kenya, a land to which Obama is no stranger, is Muslim, only strengthens his connection with Islam.<\/p>\n
All of this is important.\u00a0 Obama is no Muslim. But his ideology, centering as it does on the \u201cfundamental transformation\u201d of America, reflects the same sort of comprehensiveness and rigor found in Islam.\u00a0 It is not at all unreasonable to suspect that his exposure to Islam played at least some <\/i>role in informing it.<\/p>\n
Second, as its subtitle makes clear, Obama\u2019s first memoir, Dreams From My Father,<\/i> is \u201ca story of race <\/i>and inheritance.\u201dDreams <\/i>relays Obama\u2019s odyssey, his quest for racial authenticity\u2014<\/i>i.e. authentic blackness.\u00a0 <\/i>We must realize that Obama is no different from any other leftist, black or white, in viewing blackness not so much biologically or even culturally, but ideologically.<\/i><\/p>\n
Academic and one-time Obama confidante and backer, Cornell West, summarizes this approach as succinctly and clearly as anyone.\u00a0 \u201c\u2018Black enough,\u2019\u201d he writes, \u201calways means \u2018bold enough.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 For instance, Clarence Thomas is \u201cphenotypically [biologically], beautifully black.\u201d\u00a0 But as \u201ca right-wing conservative who sides with the strong against the weak,\u201d Thomas is \u201cnot bold enough.\u201d\u00a0 Conversely, Adam Clayton Powell and Thurgood Marshall, though light-complexioned, were \u201cbold enough\u201d and, thus, \u201cblack enough.\u201d\u00a0 Both \u201csided with the weak.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read: black leftists are authentically black while blacks who aren\u2019t leftists are not.<\/p>\n
Third, Obama\u2019s desire to be \u201cblack enough\u201d lead him to seek out Reverend Jeremiah Wright, pastor of Chicago\u2019s Trinity United Church of Christ.\u00a0 The relevance of this decision on Obama\u2019s part couldn\u2019t be more germane to unlocking his true identity, for Obama spent over 20 years <\/i>at Wright\u2019s church, and didn\u2019t distance himself from it until it became politically necessary to do so.\u00a0 Throughout most of his adult life, that is, Obama was under the tutelage of Wright, a man of whom he thought enough to describe as his \u201cspiritual mentor,\u201d the one \u201cwho brought me to Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Wright\u2019s church was saturated in \u201cBlack Liberation Theology,\u201d a racialized version of Marxism founded by James Hal Cone. The latter equates God with \u201cblackness.\u201d\u00a0 Cone thinks that black theologians \u201cmust reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples.\u201d\u00a0 God must be \u201cidentified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God\u2019s experience\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 If not, we are left with a deity who \u201cis a God of racism [.]\u201d<\/p>\n
Reinforcing the ideologically-centered conception of blackness discussed above, Cone writes: \u201cBeing black in America has little to do with skin color.\u00a0 Being black means that yourheart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only a suspension of disbelief of Herculean proportions could lead one to think that Obama\u2019s exposure to these ideas for decades didn\u2019t shapehis worldview.<\/p>\n
Fourth, Obama became a \u201ccommunity organizer\u201d while in Chicago.\u00a0 That he looked for inspiration in the Godfather of all self-styled progressive activists, Saul Alinsky, is itself telling.\u00a0 More disturbing, however, is that Obama\u2019s craft of choice supplies the paradigm\u2014the community <\/i>in need of organizing\u2014by which he governs as President of the country.<\/p>\n
The members of a community are linked together by a shared vision of the good life, a purpose to which they are devoted.\u00a0 But in America, a country with over 300 million people with varying interests and ends, there is no such shared purpose.\u00a0 America is a civil association; it is not a community. Totreat it as a community is to impose upon citizens those ends that the government arbitrarily privileges.<\/p>\n
In other words, to treat America as a community is to undermine the liberty and individuality that its Constitution has always guaranteed.<\/p>\n
Finally, consider how Obama has in fact governed over the last five years.\u00a0 In light of the forgoing points, isn\u2019t this precisely what we would expect?<\/p>\n
Whether taking over General Motors or one-sixth of the nation\u2019s economy via the ominous \u201cObamacare;\u201d\u00a0 whether endorsing \u201cgay marriage,\u201d refusing to enforce immigration laws, or exploiting national tragedies to further erode the Second Amendment\u2014Obama has spared no occasion to fulfill his pledge to \u201cfundamentally transform\u201d the country.<\/p>\n
Inside every leftist there is a totalitarian waiting to get out.<\/p>\n
Obama is and has always been a man of the hard left.\u00a0 Given that he is the only leftist in the world to have the power of the American presidency at his disposal, and considering that he will never again have to face reelection, there is no closet totalitarian from whom we have more to fear.<\/p>\n
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