Obama & The Human Stain: Or How Political Correctness Gave America a Con-Man
President
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By Kelly O'Connell Sunday, February 13, 2011
image <http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/kelly021311.jpg> The
Human Stain, Philip Roth’s seminal novel regarding Political Correctness,
racism, and the insipid hypocrisy of leftist morality, is a fitting backdrop to
Barack Obama’s improbable presidency. In the story, Professor Coleman Silk, a
half-Black Jewish professor, posing as a White man, is taken down by the
mechanical application of PC rules to an accidental insult he gave to two
African-Americans.
Now, we can introduce the 800-pound donkey in the room. Let’s ask a simple
question: Could Barack have been elected president without the doctrine known
as Political Correctness?
Or is simply to ask the question an unforgivable act of racism? In fact, the
vast majority of Americans realize no person as inexperienced, untested, wildly
liberal, or of such questionable past could ever have hoped to be elected
without some kind of uncanny boost. But what is the result of this presidency
based on nonsensical ideological doctrine? And what can be done to fight off
the rise of the unscrupulous, unethical, incompetent and unqualified spore of
the PC movement? This is the question addressed in this essay.
I. The Human Stain
In brief, the novel The Human Stain depicts a professor who twists ethnicity to
his advantage, then was ironically tagged a racist when he made an innocent
remark deemed anti-Black. Here is one writer’s summary
<http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11734.The_Human_Stain> of The Human Stain:
Professor Coleman Silk is driven from his position as Dean of Faculty at a
small, New England liberal-arts school called Athena College because of a
remark willfully misconstrued as racist. Coleman, a professor of classics,
wonders why he has never seen two of his students in class. “Do they exist or
are they spooks?” he asks his class. The absentees are, of course, black, and a
decorous mob of the politically correct immediately launches itself at
Coleman’s throat, despite his honest protests that he had used the word only in
its primary signification, as a synonym for “ghosts.”
Roth’s tome is well-worth a read. The underlying premise of the story is
electric—the implicit hypocrisy of Political Correctness against the backdrop
of sin, ie the human stain, making for powerful, topical drama. Barack is like
Coleman because both hid their true ethnic roots to gain political advantage.
For example, Barack is arguably only half Black. He masks his White roots to
gain leverage on opponents.
We are left with the question in The Human Stain, of whether the ambitious and
aged Silk could have risen while still sharing his true racial history with his
colleagues. Even his own family is unaware of his true identity. Likewise,
could Barack have ever been elected without a pro-minority bias, egged-on by a
PC media; further—could he possibly retain over 40% support today despite a
wholly flaccid and injurious reign? Common sense says, “No!”
II. What is Political Correctness, From Where Did It Arise?
A. Cultural Marxism
The idea behind Political Correctness was hatched by a group of progressive
German academics, the Frankfurt School
<http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.html> , before WWII
when they relocated to America to escape Hitler’s wrath. They realized Marx was
wrong—the poor were not ready to revolt and throw off Capitalism for a
property-less society. These Marxists decided the only way to create the
society Marx envisioned was by subverting its institutions by misinformation,
propaganda and seduction of the mentally unformed. Writes one expert
<http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/> ,
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find
out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is
Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes
back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World
War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical
Marxism, the parallels are very obvious.
B. Elements of Political Correctness
William Lind explains the Elements of Political Correctness
<http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/> :
1. Both Marxism and Political Correctness are totalitarian ideologies, ie
they allow no dissent and claim ultimate truth which people are then forced to
follow.
2. Political Correctness, aka Cultural Marxism, claims all history is
determined by power. Nothing else matters.
3. In Political Correctness certain groups are good—feminist women,
(non-feminist women don’t exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups
are “victims,” defined as “good” despite how they act. White males are
categorized as automatically evil.
4. Political Correctness relies on expropriation, ie arm-twisting use of
the government to recover what was “stolen” from them.
III. The Obama Presidency, Unfit at Any Speed
A. Our Stillborn Napoleon
Obama’s incompetence has become so well attested, it’s reached apocryphal
status. No matter what kind of imbecility is attributed to Barack, the average
American would tend to believe it. But how did this transition of perception
occur? How did one so touted as a super-competent, “messianic” mega-genius fall
so utterly, so quickly?
According to Occam’s Razor, the likeliest explanation is that, whatever his IQ,
Barack is, on a practical, real-world level—a staggering cretin. For example,
he’s never taken note of the fact that socialism and Marxism always fail, and
kill millions of the innocent along the way. How was one elected with all the
fanfare of a Heisman winner, yet be such a zero? This can really only be
explained by pointing out that Obama’s instinct for incompetence was masked by
his lack of real leadership experience, which would have exposed his tragic
instincts.
B. The Secular “Messiah”
How on earth did the Intelligentsia ever come to the conclusion Barack was
anything more than a conceited, unenlightened, journeyman political hack? The
fact Obama was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal/ Marxist made his elitist backers
think of their own genius. Barack’s visceral socialism merely proved to the Ivy
Leaguers and media drones he was a fetal Aristotle or freeze-dried Isaac
Newton. Just add a presidency, and out would wriggle Obama Buddha from his
Harvard Law Review chrysalis, ready to rule the world.
But, having been coddled and given every advantage by the establishment, Barack
responded not by growing into each task, but by learning to be a con artist.
That is, for every special position or opportunity Obama was handed, instead of
seeing it as a challenge and chance to grow, he responded by raising his
con-man act another notch. So by the time Barack reached the US presidency, 100
days after election to the US Senate, he was qualified for only a few things.
These were: Speechifying, with a special emphasis on moral outrage; Marxist
logic, in all its anti-intuitive convolution; and doing his con-man job of
pretending to know everything as the African American Buddha.
Politically Correct special status belongs to such meritorious individuals as
women, Blacks, or gays. Barack’s inclusion is described in a Los Angeles Times’
op-ed
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story>
penned by a liberal writer trying to explain Obama’s come-from-nowhere appeal:
Obama is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of
the popular imagination—the “Magic Negro.” The Magic Negro is a figure of
postmodern folk culture..“He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the
white protagonist.”
He’s there to assuage white “guilt” (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel)
over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while
replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign
figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
This op-ed also fostered an irreverent spoof
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5JFeaJ5A4g&feature=related> by Rush Limbaugh.
IV. Obama & Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man
A. Melville’s Confidence Man
Herman Melville, in his last major work: The Confidence Man—
<http://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Man-His-Masquerade-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140445471>
His Masquerade, well plumbs the psyche of the professional trickster. Melville
tells a colorful tale of a con-artist traveling aboard a riverboat in the
mid-19th century down the Mississippi. The protagonist first charms, then
cheats his fellow passengers. The Confidence Man begs the question: In whom can
we safely place our confidence?
The story may have been written after Melville read the New York Post account
titled Arrest of the Confidence Man <http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/328/> ,
of “William Thompson, whose brazen deceptions ushered the term “confidence man”
into the American vocabulary.” The story ran in 1849, a few years before
Herman’s publication date of 1856.
Melville’s story is more a study of how the con-man’s victims react, than the
criminal himself. Each person is psychologically sized up, won over to the evil
doer’s confidences, and then robbed. And much like with Obama, the scam could
not be pulled off without well-meaning, but fatuously naive people ready to be
conned.
B. Sam Vaknin’s Diagnosis of Obama’s Malignant Narcissism
Dr. Sam Vaknin <http://samvak.tripod.com/> is the author of Malignant Self
Love—
<http://www.amazon.com/Malignant-Self-love-Narcissism-Sam-Vaknin/dp/8023833847>
Narcissism Revisited. He famously diagnosed Barack as having a serious mental
disorder, being a full-blown malignant narcissist. (A fascinating interview
with Vaknin on Obama is found here: one
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUp7qdej8g> , two
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioxdgmQNNuY&feature=related> , three
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcZuyP475dI&feature=related> , four
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5kqY_AEGAQ&feature=related> , five
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyLm0CSUl4&feature=related> ) His description
<http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-o> of the Narcissist:
Feels grandiose and self-important; Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited
success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance; Firmly
convinced that he or she is unique; Requires excessive admiration, adulation,
attention and affirmation—or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be
notorious; Feels entitled. Demands automatic and full compliance with his
unreasonable expectations for special priority treatment; Devoid of empathy. Is
unable or unwilling to identify with the needs of others; Behaves arrogantly
and haughtily. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune,
“above the law”, and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated,
contradicted, or confronted by inferiors.
V. Summary
So, Americans have the worst of all possible worlds. First, the poseur Barack
was able to slip into the world’s highest office on the wings of a false,
Marxist creed, Political Correctness. Second, Obama had spent his entire life
learning how to pretend he is competent, effective, and even brilliant—while
being continually advanced. But, instead of learning how to lead, he merely
aped the outward traits of successful people. This left him particularly
vulnerable to crises, since during normal times his leadership might go
unnoticed, whereas during times of peril a leader’s quick decisions can make
the difference between life and death. And so we observed Barack play golf
while the Gulf Oil Spill hemorrhaged petrol for months.
Obama’s propensity to pretend he was qualified for various posts, despite any
training, developed until he was a full-fledged con artist. This was perfectly
symbolized by accepting the Nobel Peace Prize after 11 days of presidential
eligibility, unaware this exposed him as a habitual fraud. But even his most
recent actions, after two years of ineffectual service, were inane. He backed a
radical Islamic sect, who favors Shari’ah Islamic law—the Muslim Brotherhood,
after abandoning one of America’s most important allies in the Middle East, in
the name of “democracy.” This reinforced perceptions of suspect analytic
skills, a perpetual orientation towards radical Marxism, and default towards
reactionary Islam.
Finally, Obama’s likely categorization as a Malignant Narcissist is unnerving
because when conditions are most dire, we can expect the worst from Obama as a
leader. We have already seen, even after getting repudiated in a gruesome
election, Barack still demands hard leftist policies. And for all these
reasons, he must be impeached from office for the survival of the American
Republic.
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