What the (Bleep) Just Happened? (2 page)

As dark a vision as this is, however, there is something even bigger and more sinister at work, something grander in scale and more destructive in purpose. We tend to think of Obama’s redistributionist agenda as limited to what he calls “spreading the wealth around” here at home.

Obama’s redistributionist scheme, however, is so much bigger than just the transfer of capital within his home country. For Obama, self-styled “president of the world,” the redistribution is
global
and not strictly limited to wealth. Obama and his single-minded band of leftists are in the process of redistributing
everything
American: our power, our wealth, our resources, our military and diplomatic advantage, our economic competitiveness, our leadership, our borders, and, yes, our unique exceptionalism.

These are the very things that built American greatness. We value them. He resents them, which is why he is constantly apologizing for them. His intent is to have every element of American greatness turned over to the rest of the world so that they may be watered down and ultimately eradicated.

If his strategy were merely wealth redistribution here at home, we could roll it back with an emphatic change in leadership in 2012 and beyond. But Obama is not content to simply remake America, but to undermine her by placing redistributionism on steroids and then selling out every component of American greatness. He also knew that he had just a few years to accomplish this global dilution of everything American, so he became a Redistributionist-in-a-Hurry.

In 2008, we handed the keys to the kingdom to a man with a hyper-ambitious redistributionism in mind, a globally viral form of it that would ultimately engineer the death of America as we knew it.

Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan came from nothing to reach the pinnacle of success. They were able to work their way to the very top because government did not stop them, shake them down, and strip them of their earned bounty. Obama told us that his story—like Reagan’s and Jackson’s—was not even possible except in America, but his leftist joyride is destroying the very exceptionalism that made
all
of our stories possible.

And to think: it’s all by design.

The tyranny we face today does not stem from an external force, but from a far more dangerous and insidious internal one. It’s a threat that moves stealthily, within the system, claiming to represent American values even as it seeks to undermine and ultimately destroy them. It comes from the darkest corners of the failed socialist ideology, but its champions hauled it out of the dustbin of history, slapped some lipstick on it, and rebranded it as “compassion” and “justice” and “fairness.” Those who had tried to impose it from afar failed because Americans wouldn’t tolerate the defeat of their system at the hands of another. But if the threat came from within, from messengers who looked like them, would they resist?
Could
they resist?

The precedent and pace of American exceptionalism gave us a false sense that our number one status would always be secure and that we didn’t have to spend much time or energy tending to it. Our thundering victory over fascism in World War II left us with a massive industrial base, from which we rapidly built the world’s biggest economy and rebuilt the economies of the rest of the newly free world. Our decisive victory over Soviet communism left us with unchallenged global political, economic, and military power. Those triumphs set in stone our own perception that our exceptional status was unshakable.

While we fought the fearsome ideologies of fascism and communism abroad, however, we turned a blind eye to an ideology that was undermining us from within. We allowed a watered-down socialism to creep in, take hold, and metastasize. We allowed it to slowly chip away at our fundamental principles until, eventually, it stood on equal ground. Once the anti-American radicals who embraced grand redistributionism saw the lack of firm resistance to their agenda, they pushed forward and increased their demands.

Their grand strategy of global redistribution is based on two overarching and interlocking beliefs: first, that
by definition
, exceptionalism is unfair and unjust, and second, that whatever “exceptionalism” America has enjoyed has been earned at the expense of social and economic “justice.” America, they believe, must be stripped of its exceptionalism if that equalizing “justice” is to be achieved, and that exceptionalism must be farmed out globally in order to weaken America’s power, status, and influence. The United States must be reduced to just another country, such as Myanmar or Ecuador. Nothing special. Just another country on the United Nations roster. What the anti-American radicals were not prepared for and what came as a pleasant surprise to them was the extreme fragility of that exceptionalism.

If America were to be broken as an exceptional power and remade as a redistributive nirvana, it needed to be done at the right moment and with the right Leading Man.

In the modern center-right nation, a far-left presidential candidate could never win a general election, never mind govern from the progressive outer banks. They had tried and failed before with extremists such as Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry, so the Left had to recalibrate. If it were ever to seize the brass ring of the presidency and be able to leverage it into a full transformation of America, the Left needed to go beyond its previous helping of man, ideology, tank, and swift boat. It needed to find the perfect marriage of man and mission.

It took them decades, but the leftists finally found it in the strange hologram of a man named Barack Hussein Obama.

Who was he? Nobody really knew. But he came complete with an Etch-A-Sketch history, making him the perfect vessel for the Left. The biracial son of an absentee Kenyan communist father and an absentee Kansan communist mother who spent his youth in Indonesia and Hawaii, attended Occidental College and Columbia and Harvard universities, and who presented in an elegant way that was non-threatening to whites, Obama was almost too good to be true. America was about to meet the Fresh Prince of Chicago.

What made him even more delectable to the Left was that he was no mere pretender to the throne. Obama was an authentic heir to the radical Left movement of the 1960s, which had been mainstreamed into American politics and culture via academia, Hollywood, and the media. And perhaps even more important, as the first viable black candidate for president, he would benefit from a tsunami of white guilt. A vote for Obama would allow white America to feel they had advanced toward vanquishing racism once and for all. A vote for Obama was a chance for many in white America to give themselves a feel-good moment. Even Joe Biden pronounced him “clean and articulate” during the 2008 Democratic primaries. So many people were consumed with proving their racial tolerance: Look, everybody! No racial complexes here! Just a supremely open-minded, enlightened post-racial voter!

The emotional pull of the racial element was not to be underestimated. A long conga line of white leftists had been defeated for president. But a biracial leftist would be granted all kinds of passes, excuses, and protections. The race card, played subtly by Obama but boldly by others, would prove to be the most powerful weapon in the Obama/leftist arsenal.

Obama also had superb leftist street cred, including personal associations with such notable sixties radicals as domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who wanted to get the socialist revolution going by killing their fellow Americans, the anti-American racist preacher Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in whose pews Obama sat for nearly two decades, and the PLO sympathizer Rashid Khalidi. A true Amalgam of Awfulness. The only thing missing was Louis Farrakhan.

Obama had also apprenticed in the dark arts. And not the cool kind of dark arts they teach at Hogwarts. I mean the dark arts of Saul Alinsky community organizing, which relentlessly stoked class warfare in order to create a pre-revolutionary climate. Obama had never expressed an unadulterated love for America, only deep critiques of its racial divides, social and economic injustices, and bullying ways in the world. His detached persona mirrored a detachment from fundamental American values. The Left tried to smear his critics by saying they were trying to paint him as “Other,” as something other than traditionally American. But in his actions, associations, and words, that was exactly true, and it was precisely the reason the Left knew that in him it had found its deliverance.

It helped their cause that he was cool in every way. He was cool, as in “hip,” with Nas playing on his iPod and his 2008 campaign sending tweets to his followers at Kanye West concerts. But he was also cool as in “unflappable,” which would come in handy as he led the leftist revolution. He was charismatic and charming, a natural salesman who delivered a spoonful of sugar to make the redistributionist medicine go down. He was also calm, self-possessed, intellectual. How could someone that seemingly rational want to radicalize the United States? Most people would not believe the truth about him and his motives—at least until it was too late.

The leftists had found their Dreamboat Date to the Big Dance, and, boy, did they get lucky.

The rest of us, meanwhile, were kidnapped, blindfolded, given roofies, tossed in the trunk, and taken on a $5 trillion bender. When we awoke, we found that our hair was mussed, our skirt was twisted, and our shirt was buttoned wrong. We had a hangover, without first having had any fun, or Bradley Cooper.

What the @$%&! just happened?

Americans are generally slow to anger. Because most of us deeply appreciate and exercise our freedom to go about our own business, we will take a lot of punches, abuse, disrespect, and challenges from our own leadership or from abroad. But at some point, even the most patient and understanding American has had enough. And it’s at that point, when Americans are finally roused from their agreeable acquiescence, that our leaders had better check themselves.

Just as Thomas Jefferson cataloged a long list of abuses of the American people by the British sovereign, many Americans have compiled their own modern list of abuses suffered at the hands of Barack Obama and his congressional toadies:

We are mad as hell about a nearly trillion-dollar economic “stimulus” that stimulated government but did nothing to excite the private economy.

We are mad as hell about long-term high unemployment.

We are mad as hell about taxpayer bailouts of failing businesses and industries.

We are mad as hell that random TSA agents can now fondle us at the airport.

We are mad as hell about a president who has regularly ruled by fiat, bypassing Congress and the public by appointing unaccountable policy “czars” and issuing mandates through executive order.

We are mad as hell about telephone book–sized bills pushed through, unread, by the Democratic leadership.

We are mad as hell about the government takeover and destruction of the best health care system in the world.

We are mad as hell about the multitrillion-dollar price tag to pay for that monstrosity.

We are mad as hell about the shady, slimy, greasy backroom dirty dealing the Democrats did to cobble it together.

We are mad as hell about the legislative tricks and straight party-line vote they used to pass it.

We are mad as hell about multiple annual deficits over $1.3 trillion.

We are mad as hell about a national debt speeding toward $17 trillion.

We are mad as hell that this president’s wife goes on late-night burger runs while telling us to graze in her organic garden.

We are mad as hell about the national humiliation of having our credit downgraded for the first time in U.S. history.

We are mad as hell about the steadfast refusal by most Democrats—and some Republicans—to cut spending in real and deep ways.

We are mad as hell about the Democrats’ equally steadfast obsession with raising our taxes.

We are mad as hell about their weaselly cowardice in their refusal to take on the biggest sources of explosive spending: entitlement programs.

We are mad as hell that illegal aliens are still streaming into the United States.

We are mad as hell about a foreign policy that embraces our enemies and makes our friends walk the plank.

We are mad as hell about the commander in chief apologizing for American power and action.

We are mad as hell about an arrogant leadership that is bankrupting the nation while empowering itself.

Above all, we are mad as hell that American exceptionalism is deliberately being turned into unexceptionalism.

Americans will take a lot, but they will not tolerate the rape and pillage of their nation by the Orwellian forces of a sick and discredited redistributionist ideology. They will reject it even more when they believe their own leadership is hijacking American exceptionalism and deliberately diluting it in order to serve a
global
redistributionist scheme.

It’s no coincidence that the movement that developed to push back found its inspiration in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The original tea party was a seminal pre-revolutionary event. It crystallized the colonists’ objections to being ruled and taxed from afar and their desire for the basic human dignity of having a voice in their own affairs. In a significant way, this was the beginning of American exceptionalism: What made these powerless subjects think they could confront the king of the most powerful empire on earth? The courage of those early Americans came when they realized they were not powerless at all. They discovered that their power came not from the barrel of a gun but from their unity around the idea that all men were created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.