The Mirage

Liberals cannot understand why conservatives dislike Barack Obama so much.  They think he is doing a great job as president and have convinced themselves that conservatives are just pissed off because they are Neanderthal racists who can't conform to the liberal social changes underway under Obama's leadership.  After all, are things in America really that bad?  We still seem to be prosperous, healthy and productive.  Look around.  Most of us have big homes, multiple cars, big screen TV's, abundant leisure time.  In fact, most of us have everything we need and some of us have more than we could ever want.

Actually, most of us who oppose Barack Obama and his policies could care less about the changing social issues.  We are more concerned about the economic and national security ones.  Unfortunately, below the surface things are not so attractive in America, changing for the worse slowly at first but now deteriorating rapidly.  Substandard economic growth.  Stubbornly high unemployment.  Diminishing security.  Perhaps it would be a good idea for those who support the Democratic Party's policies to move to the inner cities of America's major metropolitan areas so they can enjoy the consequences of those policies.  We are heading toward class, racial and/or generational conflict, egged on by a president who ignores reality and believes he is the second coming who can do no wrong.

But everything he does regarding the economy and our national security is wrong.  He has been in office for more than five years, yet good jobs are scarce while income inequality skyrockets.  The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is going backward.  Average income per household is still down 6% from 7 years ago.  The country is bankrupt.  The Educational system is graduating young adults who are unprepared to enter the work force and society.  The family unit has been torn apart.  Crimes of financial fraud and identity theft against individuals are increasing.  Younger generations are being robbed to support the older generations.  Interest rates are held artificially low by government regulatory manipulation, punishing savers.  Meanwhile, domestic civil unrest is growing as societal polarization is reaching an extreme. 

A healthy society is one where the living standards of the majority continue to progress, while today they are regressing.  We are heading toward a collision with reality.  But most of all, we are losing our ability to defend ourselves from our adversaries while they strengthen their offensive capabilities. We are ignoring what is going on in the world around us.  Terrorism is on the march, ethnic genocide is rampant, and once powerful nations with expansionist intentions are rebuilding.  Chaos and apocalyptic war will be inevitable if these trends continue.   Maybe its time for Americans interested in preserving our heritage to tell Barack Obama and the Democrats that we are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore.  Perhaps the productive Americans will refuse to pay taxes, stage mass protests or go on strike.  What will the government do, throw us all in jail.  They can't do that.  They need the productive Americans to foot the bill.

Does anyone believe our widespread prosperity and global power was built through socialism, communism, or confiscation of income from those who earned it and redistributed to those who didn't?  If they do, they are seriously uninformed.  It was built through capitalist incentives, hard work, personal responsibility and limited government letting the productive produce.  It was safeguarded by military strength that was second to none.  Those days are gone.  Our prosperity and security are not just slipping away under this president, he is presiding over their dismantlement.