[DiogenesLamp]

He has succeeded in shredding the Constitution, vesting power in himself as executive, skirting the Constitution with executive orders and bureaucratic regulations, eviscerating the military, running up the debt, weakening us abroad and turning one against another at home.

He accomplishes this for the same reason he accomplished his own election. But wait! He didn't accomplish his own election. The media did that for him. That same media would be "RED ALERT" and screaming from the rooftop if a Republican President attempted to do any of the things that Obama has done.

Again, his success at doing these corrupt and stupid things are not his. They are the consequence of that power block known as the Media, allowing it.

On this topic, I have recently had an epiphany. I used to believe the media was liberal because of demographic factors relating to it's location and the mindset of heavily urban people, but it recently occurred to me that perhaps the media is liberal specifically because the beneficiaries of Government spending constitute a wealthy and influential power block that runs the media and insures that "the media" will promote ideas that support the best interests of these power blocks.

I recall the budget battles of the mid 1990s and I remember thinking at the time, "Why would anyone be against a balanced budget?" Well the media was definitely against it at the time, and they raised holy hell about shutting down the government because of the budget impasse between the Republicans controlling congress and Clinton.

In retrospect, there *are* people who want spending to remain as high as possible; The beneficiaries of that spending. The administrators of those programs, the suppliers of FedGov contract work, and so forth.

Getting back to your point, Yes Obama is an ideologue, and I believe an incompetent one who does not actually possess an intellect capable of understanding the philosophical foundations of the positions he advocates, but the fact that he has gotten away with a lot does not constitute proof that he is intelligent or capable.

It just demonstrates that the nation has a serious problem with one party control of broadcast media.

[nathanbedford]

Oh thank goodness, it's been sometime since I've had an excuse to invoke Nathan Bedford's first maxim of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

Obama succeeded, as you rightly pointed out, in getting away with that which no Republican could hope to accomplish and probably few Democrats could accomplish, because he is in effect not black but Teflon, or better, he is Teflon because he is black.

The media is a pure creation of our educational system and that is producing a groupthink which not just accepts but imposes the Black Lives Matter bigotry on those over whom it has power and influence. America's original sin, slavery compounded by Jim Crow, has provided a historical rationale for leftists to seek and wield power, often corruptly, because they believe we are racists and they are not. Once that fundamental assumption is made, any excess in the exercise of power by the racially righteous must be excused.

So it is that Barack Obama despises the American system because it is a racist system. He can throw out the Constitution, he can discount the sacrifices of the Civil War, he can dismiss the civil rights struggle, he can see the world through the prism of Marxist class analysis, he can rule as an autocrat because he has moral right on his side because he is against the racists.

Once this assumption is made and shared by the products of our educational establishment who go on to staff the media, all of the things we conservatives hold dear are in jeopardy. Our arguments of conscience and reason and elemental justice avail nothing against this mindset. In this atmosphere the black power structure delivers its constituents wholesale to the Democratic Party and that is tolerated by the media because of the mindset.

If there are distortions in the economy, and no doubt there are, we are handcuffed by the establishment who win election after election with the support of the media and the wholesale support of African-Americans. To attack the structure is a dog whistle because it is also at some level to attack African-Americans. Both therefore becoming inviolate.

I am tempted to say that it is not economics which drive this mindset as a rationalization for exploitation by an elite but this mindset has simply been adopted as cover by a corrupt Democrat/elitist power center. Although the corruption of the Democratic Party in its cronyism is certainly contrary to its Marxist analysis, history shows that it is inevitable when the left gets power. Cronyism, corruption and elitism are the always the handmaidens of the left.

But I'm not making a chicken or egg argument here, I am simply saying that the edifice which surrounds and protects the leftist, crony establishment is as firmly entrenched as racial politics in America. One cannot be understood without the other.