Barack Obama, Conservatives and the 2012 Election
By M.L. Wilson
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This commentary is a bit off the typical topic
that I place here, but I feel strongly about the events of last night (Election
day, November 6th) so I decided to relate my thoughts as to what
happened. I spent most of last evening contemplating just exactly what happened
with the re-election of Barack Obama; a sleepless, restless night asking God
what it is supposed to mean. There are too many unknowns with respect to God
and His will that make watching such a man like Obama be re-elected to go
down easy for me.
There are many of you out there reading this
that believe that I am overwrought and making much ado about nothing. I respect
that, but I would also point out that were the outcome to have been
differently, many Obama supporters promised to riot, create mayhem and one
pro-Obama campaign ad even had a sweet looking ninety-seven year old lady
threaten to, “Burn this Motherf***ker down” should he lose. Given this toxic
atmosphere, I do not find it at all out of line to point out my disappointment
at the outcome, but also why I believe we had this outcome.
It is without a doubt that the present
state of the economy of the United States is in tatters. Unemployment remains
high and prospects for a positive change just evaporated with Obama’s unskilled
hand guiding our ship of state. Notwithstanding the constant reconfiguring of
unemployment figures by the Administration, actual unemployment in this country
is near Depression era figures of 21% The reason for such a dramatic
variance from what the Administration reports and what actually exists is simple:
We do not track unemployment the same way as we did in years past. We now place
those out of work in sub-categories – or simply do not count them at all. I
presently fall into that latter group. So while I am out of work and still
looking, there is no official record of that fact; I don’t exist for this
administration.
Now with Obama’s re-election, we see one of
the first reactions taking place with a dramatic Stock Exchange crash of over
300 points. Additionally we see business after business, both large and small,
indicating that they are implementing hiring freezes and perhaps contemplating
having to close altogether. Since these are the people who actually run
businesses and do not operate on the theoretical plane, one needs to ask what
it is that they know which the majority of the voting public most evidently
does not? I would say that in a word: finances. As a people, the majority of
United States citizens – evidenced by this election - are financially
illiterate. We cannot continue to borrow and spend and not expect a day of
reckoning.
But let us step outside of the realm of the
economy for a moment and look at other factors which I believe are certain to
lead a good number of the people who voted for Barack Obama on Tuesday,
November 6th to soon rue that choice. Despite his claims of
desiring unity, Barack Obama has instead succeeded in dividing this country
more than it has been since the Civil War. Not even the era of Civil Rights in
the 1950’s and 1960’s saw such division. This president won re-election by
running the most divisive, dirty campaign in modern history. He lied about
conditions in this country and fomented anger and hatred amongst his most
likely voters. There was never a “War on Women” by the Conservatives; there is
no institutionalized racism on the part of Conservatives; there are
no moves by Conservatives to put “Granny out on the street”; nor are there any
plans to ship jobs to China. All of these were straw-men arguments
designed to distract from the fact that Barack Obama had failed on every
objective he had set out to accomplish. Even his heralded “Obamacare” is not
what he really wanted (single payer), yet despite controlling the House, Senate
and Executive branch, he blamed all of his deficiencies on his predecessor and
Republicans which enabled him to successfully got a slim majority to agree and
hand him another term in office.
Most obscenely, Barack Obama lied about the
character of his opponent worse than he lied about the qualities of himself.
Mitt Romney was portrayed as having murdered a woman, abusing animals, being
raised in a family dripping with multiple wives engaged in orgiastic ecstasy
with oppressive husbands. As over-the-top as these lies were, a willing people
sopped it up like a dry sponge. In the end it really didn’t matter if any of it
was true; it did the job in painting Romney as something different; something alien.
That was Obama’s real tactic and it unfortunately succeeded on an ill-informed,
pliable public.
By contrast, Conservatives were pilloried by
asking legitimate questions about Obama as though to even think about making
such inquiries was un-American. But never-the-less, one must ask if any of
these question honestly answered would have altered the outcome of the
election. I contend that given the present ignorant siege-mentality of the
American Public that it would not have; Obama could have disclosed all and not
lost a single vote. Some of those questions yet to be answered are: Is
Obama’s father really Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya or is it Frank Marshal Davis of
Chicago? Does this somehow play into why he will not release his birth
certificate? Did Obama enter Occidental College under a foreign student grant?
How did he get into Harvard when it has been hinted that he did not do well
academically and clearly had no money to pay for tuition? Why won’t he release
his college transcripts? At the end of the day, Obama distracted his followers
with enough rumor and innuendo that he didn’t have to answer any of these
legitimate questions. He knew that his constituency did not have the intellect
to understand the ramifications in any event. Instead of answering his critics,
Obama rested on the old tried and true Roman tactic of Bread and Circuses. MTV,
“Honey Boo Boo” and “The Jersey Shore” are thrown out to mask the truth and a
more than gullible electorate accepted it.
Despite all of these patently transparent
moves to hide who and what he is, more people in this country voted to continue
with Barack Obama rather than demand true change. Now do I believe that Mitt
Romney would have “fixed” everything had he been elected? No and no thinking
person ever did. The real question that need be asked is: Would Mitt Romney
have rescued us from the fiscal mire we find ourselves in and begun to steer
the ship of state in a better direction? To that question I give an
overwhelming yes. Romney has actually created and run multiple businesses all
over the world. This gives him financial experience as well as foreign policy
experience. When you are negotiating across the table from some Chinese or
Middle Eastern leader in business, you learn how to negotiate anything. Romney
has shown far greater character as a husband and a father than Barack Obama
has. To Romney, grandchildren are not a punishment. This was an opportunity
that Romney did not take advantage of. Still I see his loss as a
result of even more than than these lost opportunities.
I believe that there were two essential
factors in play which has led us to a second Obama term. The first is that the
Democratic Party has for decades been carefully cultivating a populous that is
by its very nature, dependent and ignorant. These are people who are told from
birth that they are victims and are entitled. When a child is taught from their
earliest moments that they are owed everything based upon inequities from
“those people”, they will grow into adults expecting just that and they will
expect it from “those people”. For another person to come alongside them later
in their life and attempt to explain that the world doesn’t quite work that way
simply does not register with these people; it is a foreign language to them and
they do not understand. As such, these conditioned people have no capacity of
discernment. They do not believe when they are told for example that all Unions
are not good and can be easily corrupted. A Union must work with the employer
for the relationship to work to everyone’s best interest; they do not
understand the very basics of finance and insist that there are large stashes
of money hidden by “those people” because they have been conditioned to live on
a government stipend. Endless borrowing and spending by the government has no
impact on them because they have been told since birth that the government will
“fix it” when it gets too bad. These are people who cannot correlate the intact
family structure with the health of our country because once again, from birth
they have been taught that family is essentially ancillary.
Sadly during this period of cultivation which
begun in earnest with FDR, opportunists within the Democratic Party took
advantage of the struggles of families due to the tough economy to plant the
seeds of familial disconnect and discord. By the time of LBJ and his “Great
Society”, the final nail had been driven into the family coffin. For
individuals struggling to support their families, the government made it
monetarily advantageous to have a broken family rather than one that remained
intact. This move on behalf of the Johnson Administration succeeded in creating
the dependency constituency that the Democratic Party so desired and all it
cost them was a small taxpayer supplied subsistence check once a month. A
pretty sweet deal to ensure their place of power considering the monies for
these subsistence checks were from taxpayers and not their own pockets. Once
the family bonds were broken by such fiscal policies, the children of those
families were conditioned to always look towards the government to fulfill
their needs - both financial and social. Of course the Democratic leaders were
more than happy to oblige – providing that the votes of this dependency class
continued to be for solely for Democrats. The threats of the money flow being
cut off could now be used as an effective weapon for voting against the
Progressive Liberals movement.
As obscene and horrific as this one side of
the equation is, it is balanced by an equal obscenity on the other side. That
part of the equation is just as inured with false teaching and belief as is the
dependent Progressive Liberal constituency. The other half has more to do with
how religious Conservatives view themselves and their principles. Unlike the
Democrats, religious Conservatives tend to “cut off their nose to spite their
face” time and time again. The great failing of religious Conservatives is
their inability to be shrewd when dealing with their opponents. The essential
problem with these religious Conservatives is that they tend to equate a
compromise on any level with an opponent as an offense against God.
I will take this moment to point out a passage
in the Gospel of Luke chapter 16. In it, Jesus recounts the tale of
a manager of a rich man who was accused of wasting the rich man’s possessions.
The rich man was upset and demanded an accounting from the manager before he
was fired. The manager realizing that he was too old to go back to a manual
labor position went out and collected what debt that he could to not only repay
the rich man, but engender good will amongst those people to whom money had
been lent. The manager cut many of the debts in half to the delight of the
debtors and returned enough money to the rich man that the rich man commended
him. On the surface, this seems to be something of a slight of hand on the part
of the manager; he was the one who gave the loans, he was the one who did not
administer those loans properly. It seems as though this manager stuck his boss
with the bill while securing for himself a cushion of goodwill with the
debtors.
Christ goes on to point out that the people of
the world are shrewder in dealing with their own kind than with the people of
the light (read Christians). Money lending in those days was such
that even with the truncated payments, the rich man made money on his loans and
lost nothing. Despite the rigidity of the loan contract, the manager made a
smarter choice that benefited all.
I point this out because the other factor that
led to the loss of Mitt Romney in this election had to do with some Christian
Conservatives refusing to vote at all because Mitt Romney identifies himself as
a Mormon. Since Mormonism has been identified as a cult, too many Christians
regarded a vote for Mitt Romney as a vote for Satan. These people truly
believed that God would gaze down upon them at the Great White Throne judgment
and cast them into the Lake of Fire for their “compromise vote.” I will not go
into the gross theological errors rife with such thinking here; it is a debate
without end. Such thinking on the part of well intentioned Christians is as
much a result of ideological cultivation and conditioning as is the tragically
infantile Progressive Liberal mindset. Both sides reacted to the teaching they
had been given from infancy and their unwillingness to look at any other view
has resulted in the split that now exists in this country.
As God is God, I realize that He is in
complete control over this situation. “All things work together for good for
those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.” The Apostle
Paul pointed out in Romans 8:28. It should also be pointed out, however, that
that “good” does not necessarily translate into “good” as we might be familiar.
The Apostle Paul thought it would be good for him to go home to be with Christ,
but remained because that was better for the rest of us. The passage in Romans
above concerns our battles in this world as Christians. We, as Christians – as
Lights to the world – are going to undergo struggles, persecutions, slanders,
etc. The “good” is what is eventually born from such work. Too many
Evangelicals misconstrue Paul’s words and errantly believe that “good” will
manifest now, here in this realm. While we are to be hopeful of such an
outcome, the promise we are to hope for is in Christ and the world to come; not
this one.
As a Christian, I am also well aware that it
will become dark in this world before the end. But I also know that as a
Christian, I am not to court such an outcome nor hasten its arrival. I am to be
a Light to those within my sphere of influence; I am to reflect Christ.
Additionally, I am to be a good steward to that which I have been given. As a
result of my fellow Christian’s holding to some misplaced rigid ideology and
opting to sit out this election, a man who will most likely appoint three (or
more) Supreme Court judges, many Superior and Appellate Court judges has been
re-elected. This same man will also continue his march upon our rights and
freedoms – freedoms of worship which will result in the hastening the darkness
that is to come.
If there was some unspoken strategy on the
part of Christians to hasten the end of the age by abstaining from voting and
thereby allowing Barack Obama to be re-elected, these folks need to understand
that they have not exemplified good stewardship. They have instead placed their
Light under the peck-measure. Similarly, these same Christians, believing that
we AS Christians are not to engage in any matters political, fail to recognize
one very salient point: God put each and every one of us here in this realm, in
this country, at this point in time. He gave each and every one of us the
opportunity to have an effect upon our government and when we ignore that responsibility,
we are in effect telling Almighty God that we do not care about anything He has
given to us; that we know better. The Old saying of one being so Heavenly
minded that they are no Earthly good comes to mind. Again, we are to be a Light
to the world without getting caught up in the things of the world. These
Christians don’t vote citing all manner of “spiritual” reasons, but the truth
of the matter is that most of them are more afraid of being held accountable to
their choice and winding up in Hell. This bespeaks a level of selfishness that
is not of God. I’ll point out once again that God judges the intents of the
heart. Mitt Romney – as will Barack Obama – will both have to account for their
choices.
To buttress this claim of mine, I would direct
such Conservatives to learn history. If one is not familiar with history, I
eagerly encourage learning how we came to be where we are as a country. Our
Founding Fathers also identified themselves as Christians despite what the
secular press might try to get you to believe. In an age before modern
Evangelicalism, however, what they believed and how they understood God was
somewhat different than what we’re familiar with. They despite their
theological differences, the end result was too important to not come together
and create a bastion of freedom for all.
Understanding history frees one up to see the
blatant errors that are promulgated by both ends of the ideological spectrum.
For either side, I would recommend reading “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs” to get a
feel for just how bad government can be towards its people. Read about a world
that has fallen into darkness and just what those people had to endure. Move on
towards the persecutions of Christians and Jews under not only Nero, but later
emperors such as Diocletian. This isn’t the “flowery” stuff you’ll find in the
pages of Dr. Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind” series; this is a harsh, brutal
persecution of the type you’ll find in the Holocaust or the Killing Fields. How
many of you Christians believe you could endure such brutality at the hands of
your former friends and neighbors – in some cases, even family? When you work
to hasten the end, there are consequences. In an example in Foxe’s Martyrs,
that resulted in a mother watching her 7 year old boy roasted alive on the Hot
Iron Seat. If you are unfamiliar with that method of execution, look it up.
Part of the consequences of hastening the coming darkness is to also hasten the
coming of such despicable acts as outlined in that book.
Do I believe that Barack Obama is capable of
such brutality against his own people? I'll answer that question this way:
Barack Obama is a man in power and as Lord Acton once famously stated, “Power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” History has proved Lord
Acton’s words to be deadly accurate. From my observation, Barack Obama is not
guided by Jesus Christ any more than my Christians friends believe that Mitt
Romney is guided by who they believe to be Jesus Christ. That leaves us with
the character of each man. Barack Obama has encouraged revenge against his
opponents while Romney sought to heal the nation. The individual will have to
be the judge of who is the more trustworthy based upon character. I don’t
believe that this election satisfied that question based upon the
aforementioned chicanery employed by Mr. Obama.
At best, the next four years will be a
standstill for our country. There is a Republican controlled House of
Representatives that Obama has been unwilling to compromise with during his
first term and he has cultivated much enmity there by his sheer arrogance. I
see no reason to believe that the relationship will change with a second term
as he will simply appoint czars to do the work he wants done and ignore congress
altogether. The House will hopefully do the job it was elected to do and stop
this president’s attempts to subvert the Constitution. None of those Supreme,
Superior and Appellate court judges can make it to the bench without the
consent of the House. These are the people that have to now be held to account.
Now at worst, the entitlement mindset on the
Left and the unyielding mindset on the Right will result in the Democrats
fomenting enough added criticism towards Conservatives that they will reclaim
the House in 2014. Should that happen, there will be no way to make up the lost
ground and you will see the end of our once great Republic. This is not
hyperbole; it is a historical fact.
Keep Christ in the forefront of your thoughts
and do all things to His glory, but do not turn a blind eye when a brother is
being abused. Be shrewd in your approach towards your opponents. Most of all,
however, do not let your dogma and doctrine rule over you to the detriment of
this great, grand country. The United States of America is the last great hope
on the face of this earth and rigidity and ignorance are not going to help it
to survive. Once it is gone, there will be nothing else to replace it until
Christ. Unless some of you know something I don’t, Christ may not return for
another thousand years. Be good and shrewd stewards, people. Start now.
