Truth is, I had been neglecting the site for a couple of years. It would be a full time job to chronicle all of the Obama silliness and I already work full time.
I am proud of How America Became Jonestown and even with my dimiinished efforts, the site still holds some gems. My favorite is the parrot trained to say "yes we can" positioned next to human parrots chanting the same idiotic slogan.
The site also featured babies taught to speak the word "Obama", "Hope" the musical, people praying to--not for--Obama and sycophants who take their art form to previously unimaginable levels.
The weirdest thing I have ever witnessed was the deification of Barack Obama. The zombie idiom rose in tandem with Obama worship because it represented a fear that could not be expressed literally, at least not in places like Hollywood.
Ten years ago this blog set out to make the point that Barack Obama was a vapid figure who was not qualified for public office, much less the presidency. This blog also wanted to highlight media bias and to sound a clarion to resist destructive economic policies that would lead us to a debt of $20 trillion with nothing to show for it.
This blog wanted to showcase the corrupt nature of Obama the candidate and later the Obama Administration. Surprisingly, that would be a constant battle that continues to this day. It surprises me just how varied and constant the graft and abuses of power would spew from that band of thugs. Yes, there was Donald Young and Larry Sinclair, a stolen Iowa caucus and dark money from abroad but we did not foresee the president loading up $1.6 billion cash on a pallet to send to his allies in Iran. We did not foresee him using a private email to communicate with a corrupt and possibly seditious Secretary of State.We did not foresee IRS abuses and domestic spying on a scale never before imagined. Not even we the cynical could predict just how rotten these rotten apples turned out.
The facet of Obamacism that eclipses all else is the elevation of Barack Obama to demi-god status. I for one thought that Obama would go the way of the Hula Hoop and the Cabbage Patch Doll. I had no idea that his followers were as silly as they would turn out to be and I expected some of them to outgrow their foolishness, I had no idea it was so deep and so wide and so damn permanent.
How America Became Jonestown is a website that tried to chronicle Obama Worship at its silliest.
From the home page:
The Ugly Truth
The story of Barack Hussein Obama is part Orwell, part "Twilight Zone," part Jonestown and part "Invasion of The Body Snatchers." Obama has made rational appeals to certain special interest groups (the legal profession, unions, teachers, illegal immigrants to name a few) but Obama voters are largely irrational. That is not a patronizing assessment nor is it a snide commentary about people who do not share my political views. It is simply reaffirming the obvious: Barack Obama's ongoing political campaign rarely, if ever, appeals to the voter's rational faculties. For non-members of special interest groups, supporting Barack Obama is a non-rational undertaking.
Obama followers cannot articulate their love anymore than a teenager can explain her first crush. It is visceral, not analytical. It is based not on reason, but sentiment. For many, the ardor blossomed into full blown religious expression. Fools like me underestimated the breadth and depth of Obama worship. It is real. It is too real.
This blog started out chronicling displays of Obama worship. We joked about Obama worship but we didn't literally mean it. Those idiots in 2008, they were just caught up in the moment, right? Wrong! The worship was and is literal. As genuine as Jonestown.
I wrongly thought I could change people's minds by showcasing folly in the extreme. I posted dozens of disturbing videos of silly Obama supporters. Sadly, I barely scratched the surface. There are hundreds of Youtube videos of fools bowing down to a hollow man they do not know and don't care to know. Who needs facts when one is showered with a bounty of such splendid iconography?
Somewhere along the way this blogger felt that he had made his point. Yes, the cult of Obama was as creepy as it gets. The fundamentalists would still bow down to their messiah. Can't save the mindless, no. But most Obama voters would distance themselves from the Kool-Aid cult if only to retain a measure of self-respect. Wrong! 2012.
An aside. The 2008 election made me rethink the merits of organized religion. We are a religious species. If we don't find a sane outlet for our religiosity, we might end up following a sleazy-cheesy community organizer whose real intentions are shrouded in mystery.
Religion by its very nature requires the participant to think in a pararational manner. Fully engage one's knowledge to its limits and then defer to faith. There were guard rails in place. Idolatry was strictly prohibited. The exercise of religion did not license one to practice self-delusion as a preferred lifestyle.
It is imperative that opponents of Barack Obama come to grips with reality. It is time we face the ugly truth. We are witness to the first ever media-generated, media-sanctioned, international religious cult. This is not business as usual. This is Jonestown writ large. Beware the Kool-Aid!
Obama followers cannot articulate their love anymore than a teenager can explain her first crush. It is visceral, not analytical. It is based not on reason, but sentiment. For many, the ardor blossomed into full blown religious expression. Fools like me underestimated the breadth and depth of Obama worship. It is real. It is too real.
This blog started out chronicling displays of Obama worship. We joked about Obama worship but we didn't literally mean it. Those idiots in 2008, they were just caught up in the moment, right? Wrong! The worship was and is literal. As genuine as Jonestown.
I wrongly thought I could change people's minds by showcasing folly in the extreme. I posted dozens of disturbing videos of silly Obama supporters. Sadly, I barely scratched the surface. There are hundreds of Youtube videos of fools bowing down to a hollow man they do not know and don't care to know. Who needs facts when one is showered with a bounty of such splendid iconography?
Somewhere along the way this blogger felt that he had made his point. Yes, the cult of Obama was as creepy as it gets. The fundamentalists would still bow down to their messiah. Can't save the mindless, no. But most Obama voters would distance themselves from the Kool-Aid cult if only to retain a measure of self-respect. Wrong! 2012.
An aside. The 2008 election made me rethink the merits of organized religion. We are a religious species. If we don't find a sane outlet for our religiosity, we might end up following a sleazy-cheesy community organizer whose real intentions are shrouded in mystery.
Religion by its very nature requires the participant to think in a pararational manner. Fully engage one's knowledge to its limits and then defer to faith. There were guard rails in place. Idolatry was strictly prohibited. The exercise of religion did not license one to practice self-delusion as a preferred lifestyle.
It is imperative that opponents of Barack Obama come to grips with reality. It is time we face the ugly truth. We are witness to the first ever media-generated, media-sanctioned, international religious cult. This is not business as usual. This is Jonestown writ large. Beware the Kool-Aid!
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