Rapid Onset Political Enlightenment

[HumpDayHoratio]

The story of the rise and fall of the Obama political machine. How a small group of operatives used “permission structures” to take over and manufacture a New Democratic Party.

Lots to unpack in this thesis, but for Poli-sci types it’s gold.

 

[Rebel5soul]

There's another researcher out there you might want to look up, Jonathon Haidt. Dr. Haidt is one of those rare breed of Social Psychologists that actually make sense and stay in the arena of the sane. In the article you linked Samuels quotes the reference to "politics being down stream from culture." In the 2011 time frame Haidt started documenting the not so beneficial effects of social media and it's untoward effects on the mental health of youth in particular.

His work points to the downfall of traditional media as a natural consequence of the rise of social media. I wonder if he's done any recent research into the rise of the long form pod cast and if that new format could be an attempt on the part of the gestalt social mind to heal itself?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I never drank the Obama Kool Aid. I always thought that he was a case of 1 + 3 = 13, or more likely, 47. A put-up job.


Thing is, I figured he was unelectable.


Oh well.


But I was clear as an azure sky why I'd never voted for him.

 

[BAstoicguy]

The ripples of unintended consequence...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He, Broadway Joey, and Kammie are all big on chatter and weak on action. Seems to me I said that I'd vote for his third term if he promised to do as little as he did in term two.

 

[Rebel5soul]

There were a ton of people mesmerized by the notion of electing the first half-black president. And let's face it, McCain was NOT an inspiring candidate.

 

[BAstoicguy]

He was Hillary before his daughter transmogrified...

... and Liz, they all became "rebels against daddy."

 

[Wat_Tyler]

McCain was nominated as the GOP Lifetime Achievement Award, like they did bobdole in '96. That the results looked similar wasn't surprising.

 

[Rebel5soul]

McCain was nominated as the GOP Lifetime Achievement Award, like they did bobdole in '96. That the results looked similar wasn't surprising.

Yep, an "It's my turn now" candidate.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Those people know how to look dignified and maybe run a respectable show.

But they are not showmen and they have no idea how to win a popular election.

Repeal the 17th. Give that class their debating society back so they'll leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Yep, an "It's my turn now" candidate.

Like the current President-in-Dementia. May his god please have mercy on him. He lost his way.

 

[lovecraft68]

Obama was the godfather of woke who started the divide in this country and fed the self righteousness of the leftwing tard squad like we see in this forum.

Issue is whereas Obama was a smooth speaker with some charisma, his disciples, Clinton, Biden, Harris are all buffoons who just pushed his schtick too far.

The brought their own ruin upon them. Now their squealing and squawking has that delicious air of desperation and frustration as they cling to something the majority in the country-and I believe its already grown as the left continues to spew nothing but hatred and bigotry-have said enough is enough.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Agreed, "woke" has run it's course.

 

[BAstoicguy]

I do not give him credit for a divide, that is just natural in human affairs, it was his methodology in exploiting that divide which was masterful, but not his own device.

As he (or as Bill Ayers wrote to tweak us as an insider joke) is the blank screen for us to project our images onto; he attempted to be in some ways that Stranger in a Strange Land. So many purchased his book (part and parcel of the package – the virtue purchase) but they didn't read it (at least, for comprehension. I did. Vance's too. A whole lot of others).

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yep, an "It's my turn now" candidate.

But but but, I earned it.

 

[BAstoicguy]

He got shot down, Hillary nearly was and Liz, well, well, she was threatened with it!

A lot like the anvils and unions, hammers and phones...

 

[Rebel5soul]

Liz? You mean Pocahontas?

 

[BAstoicguy]

*chuckle*

The other white meat. The one that can say, "Well, MY daddy shot somebody and I own a gun..."

I think they should take mine away, so why aren't you okay with it? You are Republican. Right?
You can be counted on to do the reasonable and not the radical thing.
They won. Elections have consequences: you go with the winner.

 

[icanhelp1]

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The story of the rise and fall of the Obama political machine. How a small group of operatives used “permission structures” to take over and manufacture a New Democratic Party.

Lots to unpack in this thesis, but for Poli-sci types it’s gold.

You might enjoy reading the book " CULTURE of CORRUPTION " by Michelle Malkin. In depth study of how Obama weaponized all our agencies and how he used the DOJ, FBI, CIA and IRS to spy on Americans.

 

[BAstoicguy]

It is a well-research book. I don't see her anymore. If I cared, I guess I'd look. I have a ton of those books left in the wake of Rush Limbaugh...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

O'Bama was a front man, a pawn, a Tool of the Deep State.

 

[BAstoicguy]

In the end, he became what he portrayed, at least, in his mind. This has led to frustration in one so young with so much potential.

He really should do something with his life, unburdened by what may have been his burden.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Clarice picked up on the theme too and The Permission Structure:

https://www.americanthinker.com/art...obama_hallucinatory_permission_structure.html


Pull: To fully understand how the Continuing Resolution was defunded, how Trump won, and how Benjamin Netanyahu was able to properly defend Israel free of Obama’s delusionary views of reshaping the Middle East, read this lengthy, well-researched and argued essay by David Samuels.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Clarice picked up on the theme too and The Permission Structure:

https://www.americanthinker.com/art...obama_hallucinatory_permission_structure.html


Pull: To fully understand how the Continuing Resolution was defunded, how Trump won, and how Benjamin Netanyahu was able to properly defend Israel free of Obama’s delusionary views of reshaping the Middle East, read this lengthy, well-researched and argued essay by David Samuels.

That’s the article I originally linked! I have often wondered, where did the Dalai Bama (peace be upon him) come from? No, not his Birth Certificate kerfuffle, but his sudden meteoric rise? He was a nobody plucked and sent into a Senate seat then elevated (above St Rodham I might add) as presidential material? His pedigree wasn’t there, so there has to be something else. The article above touched on the dark money behind him but didn’t expose it further than the mention.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Yes, I had posted it much earlier too and it provoked much thought with me because it put specifics to an observable phenomenon. This has been a thing ever since the exposure of the fabric of the projector screen that was our President-in-Waiting, or Embryo...