Posted on 06/27/2014 11:45:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
More and more people are finally coming to the realization that President Obama is presiding over America's decline, though there are differences of opinion as to whether he's deliberately or even directly causing it.
You have to admit that it's outright bizarre and alarming that people are even having this discussion, yet many of us have been warning about it for years now. It is gratifying that others -- albeit belatedly -- are waking up.
There are two separate issues: Is Obama trying to bring America down, and is his presidency falling apart (and what does that mean)?
As for the first, many get hung up on the semantics of whether Obama is trying to destroy America. Few are willing to believe anything so sinister of a twice-elected president. It's an easier sell to say that he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism or decries the very idea of nationalism and prefers to consider us all citizens of the world. He believes that capitalism yields unfair results, which leads him to desire a redistribution of our resources within the United States -- and from the United States to the rest of the world. So he is pursuing an agenda that will bring America into line with the rest of the world, which is to say, he is making us weaker and less prosperous.
I also happen to believe he has a grudge against America and wants to bring us down to size. But in his bizarro world, that's not destroying America; it's making it fairer and more just.
Concerning the second issue -- whether Obama's presidency is falling apart -- it's important that we are clear on what we mean by this. Most seem to agree that Obama's honeymoon with the American people has degenerated into serious marital difficulties, as evidenced by his nose dive in approval polls. Some consider this data, along with his multitudinous scandals, and conclude, "His presidency is imploding."
I believe that's correct only in the limited sense that he has lost the good will to accomplish much more of his agenda through proper constitutional channels. But I don't believe that it means he will be unable to accomplish anything for the remainder of this term. He has already proved that he is fully able and willing to act unilaterally on a wide range of issues, both domestic and foreign, with or without constitutional authority or congressional approval.
He wasn't just bluffing when he smugly declared, "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone." He was expressing his frustration with his political opponents' sometimes refusal to roll over to his dictates and his resolve to circumvent them every time he gets a chance.
This was nothing new. He and his advisers had said many times that he intended to liberally use executive orders and other tricks to advance his agenda at every opportunity. He's also made clear his willingness to act lawlessly and encouraged his administrative agencies to do likewise. Nor will anything deter his enabling Democrats in Congress to assist and provide him cover every chance they get. Just watch the congressional hearings involving the Internal Revenue Service scandal if you want to understand how national Democrats invariably place their party's interests above those of the nation -- and above the law.
As for his propensity for lawless unilateral action, remember when he admitted he didn't have the authority to pass the DREAM Act on his own and then two weeks later went ahead and issued an executive order implementing important provisions of it? Everyone has watched his whimsical, arbitrary and capricious granting of Obamacare exemptions. He intervened militarily in Libya without even consulting Congress, much less obtaining its approval. His Environmental Protection Agency, doing his bidding, has issued far-reaching emissions standards. The IRS was fulfilling his aims in criminally targeting conservative groups for punitive treatment under the tax code. His subordinates Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice were carrying out his direct orders in falsely blaming an Internet video for the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Oh, yes, and he abused his recess appointment power to appoint a National Labor Relations Board president when the Senate wasn't in recess, for which the Supreme Court surprisingly slapped his hand. I could continue.
So if you choose to believe that Obama's presidency is imploding, I hope you understand that this doesn't mean he no longer represents a threat to America as founded or is impotent to do any further damage.
It's silly to write this all off with a wave of a hand, saying, "This is America. One man can't do that much damage." If you don't believe enormous damage has already been done in the past six years, we are on different planets. Look at the latest quarterly economic report, which shows a 2.9 percent shrinkage in the gross domestic product, with no end in sight. The number of people on food stamps and dependent on other government programs. The labor participation rate. The debt. The explosive costs and abominable failures of Obamacare. The state of the Middle East and the explosive rise in Islamic jihad.
Regardless of whether Obama has the political clout to pass major legislation now or in the remaining 2 1/2 years, his executive powers alone -- including those he has usurped -- are enough to keep us on this downward spiral. Even without any further executive power usurpations, we are already on autopilot to spend ourselves into bankruptcy.
Whatever you do, people, please don't get complacent.
Obama is about to kick it into Overdrive
He hasn’t even gone scorched earth yet. We have that to look forward to.
Agreed. He doesn’t give a damn about his “presidency”, or his legacy, he cares about the mission. Once past this election we are going to see him do things, along with the Democrat enablers in congress, that nobody will believe.
IMO Blam will not stop until he kicks off CWII.
Americans have no clue what has already happened to their country.
It was overthrown in a velvet coup right under their noses with the complicit help of everyone who holds political office that enjoys their power.
What comes next will be a horror that very few of us understand and are warning everyone is on our doorstep.
And we are told we are stupid, nuts, crazy and ‘in need of therapy’ for suggesting it.
Yet the ideological minions who put Obama into power have war-gamed what is about to happen to those of us whom this regime have declared to be ‘domestic terrorists’.
Combine that with Obama consolidating food, water, power and communications under his direct authority and control - he is about to turn down the screws on us - create famine, misery and death on a scale you cannot comprehend.
And those who resist are going to be ‘dealt with’. That is what the billions of rounds of ammo, Tanks, APCs, MRAPs and military gear for government agents and workers are for.
None of this even mentions Obama assisting the rise of the Islamic global Caliphate taking shape in the Middle East or opening our Southern border for an invasion of illegal insurgents he intends to replace all of us with as citizens of HIS utopia.
America - you have NO CLUE what is about to happen to you - because most of you refuse to acknowledge what has ALREADY happened to you.
The author needs to reboot and get updated, along with others here.
This all started way before Obama set foot in the Oval Office...Years ago it was a Bush who publicly welcomed in the "New world Order".
It as a LBJ, Kennedy, Clinton and another Bush etc, who made American citizenship all but pointless, bailed out corrupt banks, made American sovereignty illegal, borrowed trillions from the Communist and on and on.
“Plato looked at four existing forms of government and found them unstable. The best, in his view, is timocracy, a military state, like Sparta, based on honor. But such a state will fall apart: The accumulation of gold in the treasury of private individuals is the ruin of timocracy; they invent illegal modes of expenditure; for what do they or their wives care about the law? . . . . And then one, seeing another grow rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money. . . . And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honor and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and dishonor the poor man.
“An oligarchy, the rule of a few (the rich), leads to
a city of the rich and a city of the poor, dwelling together, and always plotting against one another. . . . [The government] will not be able to wage war, because of the necessity of either arming and employing the multitude, and fearing them more than the enemy, or else, if they do not make use of them, of finding themselves on the field of battle . . . And to this must be added their reluctance to contribute money, because they are lovers of money.
“The poor will overthrow the oligarchy and set up a democracy, the rule of the people (the poor). Plato thought that democratic “life has neither law nor order.” An unquenchable desire for limitless liberty causes disorder, because the citizens begin to chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority and at length, . . . they cease to care even for the laws, written or unwritten; they will have no one over them.
“Stressing moderation, Plato warned that “the excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction,” such that the “excess of liberty, whether in states or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
“Like an oligarchy, a democracy pits the poor against the rich. The poor see the rich plotting, and they seek protection: The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. . . . This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector. . . . having a mob entirely at his disposal, he is not restrained from shedding the blood of kinsmen; . . . he brings them into court and murders them . . . at the same time hinting at the abolition of debts and partition of lands. . . . After a while he is driven out, but comes back, in spite of his enemies, a tyrant full grown.
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“Plato deemed tyranny the “fourth and worst disorder of a state.” Tyrants lack “the very faculty that is the instrument of judgment”—reason. The tyrannical man is enslaved because the best part of him (reason) is enslaved, and likewise, the tyrannical state is enslaved, because it too lacks reason and order.”
We’re close to tyranny and, like the fellow who decided to try to ride the lady tiger, if the Uni-party isn’t careful it could wind up inside her.
Meanwhile the do-nothing Weeper of the House is drawing up a lawsuit - does he really expect the Judicial Branch to do the "dirty work" that congress should be doing, or is this just a delaying tactic so Barry can continue?
Boehnor can be a man of action on occasion, all the GOPe can-when it’s against a true conservative.
Many of my friends are in such a deep state of denial about the plans of Obama and gang that it is frightening to talk to them. They seem to know what is happening and keep telling themselves it can't happen here or even worse just shut themselves off from the daily events because they are too scary. I've had a friend tell me that he cut off his cable because the news was always so disturbing that he didn't want to hear it anymore. Ostrich politics. God Save the Republic!
Well said.
You’re far more industrious than I; I usually just settle for “He, and the barbarians on the other end of his BlackBerry, want most of us dead and the rest in chains”.
The GOP will sweep both the Senate and the House in November and that will push Obama further. I fear he will declare himself dictator before the end of his term in 2016.
You put it better than I could.
Combine that with Obama consolidating food, water, power and communications [AND "HEALTHCARE"] under his direct authority and control - he is about to turn down the screws on us - create famine, misery and death on a scale you cannot comprehend.
You've got that right, along with the rest of your post. There is no suger-coating this vile beast. Meanwhile, the blind false prophets can't find America in Biblical prophecy so they say she is either a second-rate minor entity not worth mentioning, or she is destroyed prior to the "last days".
Fedzilla is more like the dreaded forth beast of Daniel, crushing and grinding down the resisters - the holy (separated, set apart) people who steadfastly hold to truth and the true liberty in law. America is an idea and ideal that Obama and his minions despise to the fetid core of their dark souls. It's as if Ahab and Jezebel have partnered up with Amalek as payback for the vineyard debacle.
America - you have NO CLUE what is about to happen to you - because most of you refuse to acknowledge what has ALREADY happened to you.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The Lady Liberty costume this beast wears is threadbare and see-thru, yet people still want to believe the lie that the savage beast is America the Beautiful who just needs a little makeover and freshening up.
The wolf. It swallowed Granny and is wearing her dress.
Actually, the good reason to cut off your cable is because it provides mostly wrong information.
Television is one of the top two or three things causing the decline of our country.
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