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David Solway, PJMediaAnd that, I am almost certain, is the theory that Obama, a master of presidential stealth, is attempting to convert into practice — Cloward-Piven in its exponential form: burgeoning debt, calculated unemployment (i.e., freedom from “job-lock”), exploding entitlements, higher taxes for the employed and rising costs for everyone, a chaotic medical-and-insurance state of affairs, an unreliable currency, industrial stagnation, infringement of privacy concerns, a green energy boondoggle, a billion dollar global warming swindle (based on dodgy computer models and selective disinformation omitting the many salient facts that would discredit the AGW theory), and the continued flouting and undermining of the Constitution.
Accompanying this manufactured crisis is an amnesty scheme envisioning the legitimizing of an estimated eleven million illegal immigrants (aka “undocumented workers” and, now, “aspiring Americans”) who have streamed across porous borders to clog the welfare, housing, labor compensation and social assistance programs, foster the expansion of make-work bureaucracies, and, predictably, vote Democrat. As Donald Trump aptly remarked at the March 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), “We’re either a country or we’re not. We either have borders or we don’t.” Borders, however, are anathema to a president who has further troubled the waters by ceding American legal and political space to foreign bodies like the United Nations.
It is not farfetched to assume that such an ongoing concatenation of events as we have enumerated may well comprise a deliberate project meant to inflame social unrest and bring about a civil crisis that would facilitate the ostensible goal of the Obama administration, namely, the “fundamental transformation” of the republic into a socialist welfare state — or a de facto one-party system. Indeed, the various scandals that have plagued the Obama administration — NSA spying on citizens, IRS targeting of conservative organizations, Fast and Furious gun-running operations, illegal deferring of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the exchange of the dubious Bowe Bergdahl for five battle-hardened Taliban insurgents without consulting Congress, thus breaking a law signed by the president himself — are all forms of autocratic practice and are redolent of police-state actions.
One would prefer to regard this hypothesis as the stuff of fiction or unhinged conspiracy theory. But the circumstances described above, considered alongside the president’s Marxist training and Alinskyite methods, as well as a number of new developments, fuel such troubling speculations. These new developments involve a set of curious events within the military establishment. As Larry Kelley writes in Freedom Outpost, “Over the five years of his presidency across all branches of the armed services [Obama] has fired 197 senior officers. Just this year, he fired nine commanding generals, including General Ham, head of US Africa Command, who publicly stated that he disagreed with the order not to send a rescue mission into Benghazi on the night of the attacks when our people were pleading for their lives. Retired and active members of our most elite warriors are openly speculating that an Obama purge of its commanders is under way.”
It goes on. Obama’s gutting of the military — changing the rules of engagement thus resulting in higher casualty rates, downgrading fitness qualifications, relaxing military dress code, impairing veteran healthcare, staging fundraisers not for the Navy SEAL Foundation or the Special Ops Warrior Foundation (SOP) but for the LGBT community — is increasingly worrisome. Moreover, the plan to transform the Special Operations Forces from an elite killing force into a public relations committee, as has already befallen NASA, and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s proposal to downgrade the armed forces to pre-World War II levels, are issues that should concern every responsible citizen.
The normalcy bias disposes us to disregard or extenuate such policy initiatives. But history has repeatedly instructed us that the normalcy bias may be lethal. “It can’t happen here” is often the prelude to it happening here with a vengeance. For no matter how we may wish to parse or interpret reality, facts are facts. “They’re little pictures,” says Selwyn Duke in American Thinker, “and as with a jigsaw puzzle, if you have enough of them, assembled properly, you can see the big picture. This is otherwise known as being in touch with reality.” When we consider what is being enacted under the aegis of a ceaselessly prevaricating president, we would be frivolous if not delusional to deny the possibility that something in the nature of what Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer in The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America describe as an “attack from within at the highest levels of power” is gradually but inexorably taking place. Citing reams of fact, they have no doubt that “Obama is setting America on the path to ruin.”
One may hope that it is not too late to repristinate America after the podylike boogaloo of a devastating and farcical presidency, But it is hard to escape the conclusion that this is a president whose Merovingian sense of anointment is belied by the sordidness of his official comportment as commander-in-chief, steward of the American economy, custodian of his country’s well-being, and supposed “leader of the free world.” Perhaps the last word should go to former UN Ambassador John Bolton. America’s “biggest national security problem,” he has recently claimed, “is Barack Obama.”