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Go right now and read this article: “Obama, Shaman” by Michael Knox Beran. We’ve discussed the peculiar and perverse nature of Obama’s appeal–more than just another dishonest, pandering politician, Obama is the chief representative of a religious politics (see his Oprah-fied “spiritual” gloss on the seething Marxist rancor of his spiritual mentor Wright). Those of us who believe that the Body of Christ should keep its citizenship straight, those who believe the State and the Church should not breed their monstrous totalitarian offspring, have plenty of reasons to resist Obama.
Obama is the perfect test of our culture: we ought to reject him simply for the false spirituality essential to his politics; we ought to reject him for the politics, themselves; and we ought to reject him for using the two together, to the harm of both. And yet–as a consequence of our spiritual vacuity and our failure of political will, our disregard for both Truth and Republic–we like him.
Oh, not all of us. But enough that this botch of a man is running for President, and even beat out Hillary’s “politics of meaning” for the chance to succeed “compassionate conservatism” as the next mile marker on the road to serfdom.
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Funny you should mention serfdom. My guy read Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom not long ago and made the following video.
Nice post, if it weren’t so disturbing it may be amuzing.
Melo-The Road to Serfdom is on my reading list.
Sorry about my typo! Duh
Melo, I liked the video–I’d seen the visual Road to Serfdom that came from online, too. Haven’t actually read through my Hayek; back in the day I was reading von Mises, first, and ended up with my Hayek coming from secondary sources.
Lonely Conservative–I just find it increasingly hard to joke about the horrors of this political season. Just the same, the recent JibJab number made me lighten up a tad….briefly.
ALMOST POETRY - excellent distillation of the essence of the phenomenon