Dolezal, Warren, Obama And The Psychology Of Dupes

One of the interesting aspects of the Rachel Dolezal controversy is how it was largely shrugged off by black leaders. How in the world did this woman hide in plain sight? Even with unstraightened hair Dolezal looked German/Swedish/Czech. This is the trick where the magician pulls an invisible rabbit out of his hat and the crowd voices their approval. What a cunning array of stunts that magic man offers.

Once more, if you submitted the Rachel Dolezal story to a movie studio, it would get shot down. Not credible. Not believable. John Howard Griffin consumed large doses of methoxsalen and spent as much as fifteen hours a day under an ultraviolet light to pass as a black man in 1959. Rachel Dolezal affected a bad attitude and rose to the rank of president of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP. No one with a brain would buy this story. "Saturday Night Live" would have a hard time working a premise as silly as this.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is almost as convincing as a Native American. Apparently she used her fake-Indian status to its full affirmative action benefit, parlaying her minority status to the Harvard faculty and onward to the US Senate. She too, pulled the wool over a lot of eyes (without using much wool either) and her fraudulence was also met with a collective shrug.

Which brings us to Barack Obama. Everything about this man is fraudulent. Everything. He is a man of modest talent and an unimpressive intellect (though I have been told he can crease slacks like no one's business) and until he was fast-tracked to the White House, he was a man of meager achievement. Expose his flimflam and what do you get? More shrugs.

Why the mass indifference? People do not like to be told they have been duped. We have all been conned either in love or finances or in some other way. It is part of the human condition. But man, is it humiliating!

A victim of fraud, especially on who has been conned by someone they love and trust, is bewildered. It dawns on them that they cannot trust their own judgment. Some victims can never admit they have been had. They will try to downplay their own foolishness. They will often turn their hostility on the party who reveals the fraud. It is tough for the victim to admit their own culpability, their own naïvete.

Let the backlash begin. The vast right wing conspiracy is just not comfortable with a black man in the White House, a smart woman in the Senate or a white woman in the NAACP. Haters.

Social Issues

I am reading Jonah Goldberg's "The Conspiracy of Cliches..." I hope to write a review of it if I ever finish it. Sneak preview of my review: It is funny and thought-provoking.

Goldberg's book is subtitled "...How Liberals Cheat in The War Of Ideas." Liberals do not have a monopoly on clichés. They are everywhere and they can dominate our thoughts if we are not careful.

An overlooked cliché is "social issues." What is most bothersome about this term is that it seems to always be expressed in the plural. The issues are by no means created equal.

Abortion does equal gay marriage. Gay marriage, like conventional matrimony, is a social construct. Abortion is the termination of a human life. One subject is abstract and the other is concrete. The two issues should not be stored in the same bin. Cookies and hardware.

School choice, gun ownership affirmative action, academic speech codes...what does one mean when one talks about social issues?

Glenn Beck Summarizes Obama's Fictitous Life

One thing among many things frustrating about the Hannitys of the world is their inability to get the big picture. They see things in simplistic Us vs. Them terms and they need to compress larger stories to fit their template. Obama is old news. Let's get Hillary.

First thing, the Clintons do not fit the Left vs. Right format. The reason the Republicans personally attacked President Clinton was because they did not want to engage in an ideological battle. In many ways Bill Clinton was more conservative than Tom Delay or Trent Lott.

But let's leave the Clintons aside for now. Whatever else might be said about Bill and Hillary we know who they are even with thousands of deleted emails to muddy the waters. Hillary might sometimes "misspeak" or "misremember" but the powers that be will call her on her namesake or her Bosnian war stories. Orwellingly, the same people who remind Hillary that she is fibbing actually assist Barack Obama in promoting his fables and attack anyone who challenges his many lies.

As with the Kennedy assassination, the shrouding of Barack Obama reminds us that the whole damn system is broken. If every single member of the press either facilitates Obama's lies or has practiced a vow of silence on exposing the facilitators, then we have jumped through the looking glass. Before we route Barry Barack Soetoro Obama to the history books, shouldn't we at least know his history? The fable of Barack will be relevant ten years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now and well beyond that. If mind control and brainwashing and programmed ignorance and programmed apathy are concerns of the day, then we must examine the most successful ruse in the history of planet Earth.

WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?

D'Souza Explains Obama's Deliberate Destruction

His destructive nature has long been established. We still speculate about his motives.

What Do Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi Have In Common?

They are three people who are not intimidated by Barry Obama. I can't say the same for John Boehner or Mitch McConnell or Mitt Romney. There are a few real men kicking around. Jeff Sessions comes to mind. But as Caitlyn reminds us, this is not the golden age of manhood.

We have a nation of suits who are frightened by a pansy in Mom Jeans. Maybe we should give Carly Fiorina a long look. Maybe.

I'm Not The Only One Who Wants To Kiss Nancy Pelosi

She may have sabotaged Obama's secret trade bill for all the wrong reasons but Speaker Pelosi did the right thing. Thanks for standing up for us, Madam Speaker.

 

Guess this is one time we won't have to pass the bill to find out what's in it, huh Madam Speaker?

It's Down To Three Candidates. Larry Sabato Says So.

And they will lose to Hillary anyway. Larry Sabato says so. Well, he doesn't exactly say that but he says her numbers are holding steady and the Blue Wall is still the Blue Wall.

The three GOP candidates worth considering are: Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker. Sabato does not reveal his methodoloy but if you prefer Perry or Paul or Cruz you had better pack it in and get behind one of the annointed. Larry Sabato says so.