It may seem strange that Barack Obama has recently started to push immigration amnesty, even as he has serious and pressing issues to deal with in Afghanistan, the Gulf of Mexico, and in the economy generally. But when you look at his trademark initiatives–Cap and Trade, healthcare, “stimulus” support for government workers–it’s pretty clear that he is willing to focus his energies on game-changing and permanent shifts in federal power. Healthcare, for instance, will bring in huge swaths of the middle class into government dependency, much as Medicare and Social Security have with the elderly. Amnesty is of a piece with these initiatives: if successful, it will yield a huge swath of reliably Democratic and largely working class Hispanic voters. Millions of dependent voters would be created overnight.
Obama’s listlessness and alleged incompetence may be real, but they are secondary issues; he shows great cunning and precision when looking to expand federal power to pursue liberal ends. Indeed, this same passion for shifting power away from America’s traditional elites–whites, business owners, local governments–also explains his odd foreign policy gestures, which are typically insulting of traditional European allies while obsequious to the hostile Third World. Obama is his father’s son: the Third World anti-imperialist revolutionary with a socialist bent, smarting over the indignities of yesteryear and also today, where his own group’s arrested development is a daily embarrassment. Obama’s “incompetence” coupled with his use of political power makes sense when we realize he has no interest in American power or preserving it, but instead is interested in advancing the interests of outsiders, foreigners, minorities, the poor, and other groups that have historically been less powerful and less successful under the free market, limited government economic regime of historical America. A la Charles Beard, this order is ipso facto unjust precisely because the people that Obama wants to succeed do not do so well under this system, even as formal barriers to minority participation and advancement have been removed and, indeed, been replaced with an extensive affirmative action bureaucracy to advance their interests at the expense of the talented American majority. Obama will not be content until the high have been made low. It’s like the 1970s Ten Years After song, “Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more.”
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Bravo, this essay is pure poetry. I like the economy of words – every sentence packs a punch, and I agree with them most sincerely, including the question as to whether Obama’s incompetence is real or is calculated (and the fact that the answer to this question is not relevant: his nefarious intentions and acts are).
All in all, this is a beautiful and comprehensive yet pithy indictment of the would-be destroyer of the United States.
As for amnesty in favor of a non-assimilating 15 million who would supplant our anglo-saxon heritage with a latin model that has failed miserably in Mexico, Central America, South America, and Spain, it is the most powerful harbinger of death this country has faced since the Civil War, and Obama’s embrace of it is no surprise.
Thanks for the kind words.
The fly in Mr. Roach’s ointment is the fact that the business leaders of this country (the old elite) are just as eager to flood the country with inexpensive foreign workers as Mr. Obama (albeit with a different motivation). Exploitation of working people has been a feature of this country since the importation of indentured servants (in reality white slaves) in the 17th century and the flood of immigrants will perpetuate this history.
Without doubt, many Republicans conspire to keep the floodgates of trespass wide open (perhaps led by GWB), and they are just as guilty as their Liberal counterparts for imperiling this country at its very core.
The very rich, recently characterized more by managerial elites than by stable property owners seeking intergenerational legacies, are indeed unreliable protectors of American culture and liberty. The family man, working man, small business owner, and self-described conservative, particularly in the South, West, and rural Midwest, are our natural constituency. It is indeed a problem that the George W. Bushes of the world, and those that think like him, can think of nothing else but reducing labor costs, even as it means these impoverished newcomers still live in our cities and have all the problems of the poor. But this doesn’t mean Obama himself is not incredibly ambitious and trying to destroy the country because he thinks it’s the advance of a certain kind of multicultural justice, as I describe above.
Obama is in fact an Uber imperialist. He’s just not working in the interests of the US. He’s working for the globalist banking elite.