The Twilight Zone

The civil war in Syria is being won by Islamic extremists while the US does nothing.  Egypt is being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood while we give them billions of dollars in foreign aid and sophisticated weapons.  Al-Qaeda flexes its muscles in Africa while we pretend they no longer exist.  The Taliban gains strength in Afghanistan as we withdraw.  Iran gains influence in Iraq while we close our eyes.  It is quite clear that Barack Obama will go down in history as the president who ignored reality and allowed the radical elements gaining power throughout the Middle East to become a belligerent anti-American threat.  Combined with the growing conventional and strategic military capabilities of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and who knows how many others, it is obvious this president and his first term Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have conducted the most damaging and potentially devastating foreign policy of any administration in American history.

Domestically the US is suffering its slowest economic recovery ever with government spending and debt out of control.  Unemployment is stuck at unacceptable levels.  Society is the most polarized it has ever been since the Civil War.  Barack Obama's only solution to every issue is more government spending, higher taxes and more regulation of American industry.  These policies have never worked before anywhere they have been implemented and they are not working now.  It is undeniable that this president and his Federal Reserve Chairman, who is supposed to be independent of political influence, have conducted the most detrimental and destructive domestic policy of any administration in American history.

Yet the media continually tells us what a great job Obama is doing.  It is quite clear Barack Obama could not remain in office without the unwavering obsequious support of the sources of information in America.  What is up with that?  Obama the world's smartest man?  Obama the sportsman?  Obama the peacemaker?  Obama the benevolent?  Before long he will be starring in the Most Interesting Man In The World commercials, drinking a Dos Equis.  You can already hear the voice-over: "He lives vicariously through himself"; "He has won the lifetime achievement award, twice";
"He is fluent in all languages, including three that only he speaks".

Obama the caped crusading action hero can't be far off.  The next big Hollywood blockbuster may well be "Obama of Planet Earth, Intergalactic Superman", coming to a theater near you.  Now the creators of the propaganda tsunami are trying to turn his wife into a glamorous super-celebrity, because his exalted status demands one.  How soon before the media declares him God?  One can only imagine what they would claim he is if he were actually competent.  We are living in the Twilight Zone.

Karl Marx said capitalism carries the seeds of its own destruction.  He was wrong.  It is democracy that carries that seed.  The problem with democracy is that what begins as a meritocracy eventually evolves into a plutocracy of the super-wealthy; a kleptocracy that takes money from the productive and redistributes it to the unproductive to buy their votes; or a theocracy that worships a charismatic charlatan and false prophet making impossible promises - and clearly liberalism, or progressivism as the neocommunists now call their ideology, has become a religion.  Today in America we have a combination of all three running the country.  Liberty, justice, equal opportunity and economic affluence for all are on the way out the door.  Too bad.  It was great while it lasted.