Obama Amnesty Provides Further Insight Into Leftist Dementia

Vox has a good post today explaining the logical consequences of Obama's refusal to enforce the law regarding immigration, such as how a future president could just as easily refuse to prosecute tax dodgers. Granted, I have a great deal of sympathy for tax dodgers, but the point is that Obama abhors them and, when asked point blank in an interview, could not grasp that he had laid a foundation to help them.

This prompted me to make a comment about the nature of leftism that I thought was worth sharing here:

True. Leftists and other barbarians often commit the fallacy of ceteris paribus, or assuming that everything else will remain equal after they've "fixed" whatever they're obsessing over at the moment.

They want to invite foreigners into this country, but never consider that too many will transform the country rather than the foreigners. They want to re-distribute wealth to those in need, but never consider that this will discourage wealth creation and encourage more poverty. They want federal courts to nullify state and local laws they dislike, but never consider that this empowers federal courts to do a host of other things they hate.

The essence of leftism is juvenilism and magical thinking. What's worse, leftists rarely learn from failure but rather cry out that they need even more power to fix everything. 

Think about this in any number of other contexts, and you know it's true. Leftists lack the maturity to grasp reality and conform their actions to it, so they demand that reality change -- usually through brute force, but just as often through the corruption of language (e.g., "racism," "misogyny," "marriage," "family," "equality," ad nauseam). 

Obama Amnesty Speech And The Ongoing Assault On America

Obama committed an impeachable offense on live camera by proclaiming that he would not enforce federal law pertaining to the migration and deportation of foreigners who are illicitly squatting on American soil. This "man" took an oath to discharge his duties to execute the laws and uphold the Constitution, but he is an oath-breaker. His perfidy is matched only by those who tolerate or support his behavior.

Despite my best efforts to avoid listening to this interloper give his amnesty speech, I recently caught snippets of it and had to fight the urge to vomit. We are to believe that America has no ethnic, cultural, or religious history or identity whatsoever, but rather that America is the product of the entire world and held together merely by the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These are lies.

If all it takes is devotion to an ideal to make people free and prosperous, there is no need for them to come here  -- they can achieve freedom and prosperity at home while sparing our schools, hospitals, prisons, infrastructure, and environmental quality. The truth, as proved by Obama's own ridiculous assertion, is that America's founding and ideals are the products of a specific people and not readily transferable to foreign lands or peoples. American ideals are exceptional rather than universal. Most people the world over are weak, depraved, dependent, and yearn for strong leaders to provide for and control them. Once again, Obama helps prove this by his frequent denunciations of the Constitution's limitations and his unrelenting assault on the rule of law, which resonate strongly with the faux Americans in our midst and the new ones Obama hopes to engineer. What IS universal is the desire to gorge on the fruits of my ancestors' legacy while ignoring or destroying the tree that grows them. Amnesty, like Obama himself, is an affront to everyone who struggled to build a nation governed by laws rather than men. God only knows how many more rapes, robberies, and murders will occur in the wake of this outrage.

What will it take for people to understand that the modern federal government is a lawless engine of societal destruction? A nation without borders is no longer a nation, and a government that gives aid and comfort to invaders is treasonous. THE NATION IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT. The government is merely an institution created by the nation for a specific and narrow purpose. Now far exceeding its mandate and threatening the nation's very survival, the government must be retired, just as described in the Declaration of Independence.

Observation For The Day

I don't spend much time commenting on daily news because, for the most part, it's a tired manifestation of deeper principles being played out over and over again. There is nothing new under the sun, so I prefer to focus on principles themselves, which give you the tools to understand the various and sundry goings-on in everyday life. 

On that score, I'd like to draw attention to the principle of doublethink, or the simultaneous holding of contradictory beliefs. Orwell identified doublethink as an essential feature of totalitarianism because, after all, consistent application of principles is a major hindrance to the arbitrary exercise of power. Doublethink is all around us today because most people no longer have any principles, have lost the ability to engage in abstraction, and have welcomed totalitarian government as a cure-all for the problems they refuse to confront themselves.

Today's example of doublethink concerns race.

At jury selection during trial, an attorney has a small number of "peremptory challenges" allowing him to dismiss a potential juror without giving a reason. However, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that an attorney may not use a peremptory challenge to dismiss a potential juror solely on the basis of race, the rationale being that it is unjust to assume that the race of a person will influence his decision-making. Now, it makes little sense to continue using the word "peremptory" for something that clearly is not, and it makes even less sense to prohibit an attorney from supposedly harming his own case with blind prejudice -- after all, if the prejudice is wrong, it will be washed out by experience and attorney self-interest. But doublethink intrudes and demands that this charade continue.

Compounding the intellectual corruption is the Voting Rights Act, which mandates the creation of "majority-minority" districts on the assumption that minorities will demonstrate predictable and uniform behavior, i.e., vote for one of their own rather than on pure merit. So the very thing prohibited at trial is demanded at election time, and for the same ostensible reason of guaranteeing minorities' rights. This is doublethink on steroids.

The real reason, of course, is to increase federal power. By crippling the right of litigants to select a jury, and by crippling the right of citizens in each state to organize their own elections, the federal government retains constant discretion and control over us.

Pierce the fog of doublethink and learn to perceive and apply principles with ruthless consistency. Otherwise stated, free your mind and your posterior will follow.

The Subtext Lurking Beneath Misandrist Television Commercials

This is only one of countless television commercials portraying fathers (and more generally, men) as hopeless idiots who couldn't survive without the practical, wise hand of a female to guide them.

On the surface, everyone appears to know why these commercials exist and why they never portray women in such an insulting manner. Women do most of the shopping and spend most of the money, so it's only natural that advertising would cater to them. Men's rights activists (MRAs) get upset about this and point out that a pecuniary rationale would never protect a misogynistic commercial from a swift and shrill outcry from the XX-chromosome cohort. This argument, however correct, never goes anywhere because of a harsh fact: many (or at least enough) fathers and men ARE hopeless idiots who rely on women to steer them through life. This gives the commercials sufficient legitimacy despite their exaggerated nature. Besides, society expects men to take abuse with a stiff upper lip whereas it indulges the endless and fickle demands of women, so men should just get over it and shut up.

Thus ends the public's dialogue on the subject, which is where my interest begins.

First, it's fascinating to note just how much scorn and resentment women -- in the West, anyway -- appear to harbor toward men. To be so saturated with contempt that even something as ordinary as a television commercial must appeal to it is incredible, and not very flattering. Apparently it's a losing strategy for companies to market socks, diapers, detergents, or car insurance to women on the products' merits alone. No, the companies must stimulate the man-hating sentiment or lose out. If I'm wrong and there is no such widespread hatred for men, women should feel just as insulted by these commercials. After all, while the men in the commercials are directly portrayed as idiots, the women television viewers are indirectly portrayed as bitter harpies and hags who enjoy this stuff. Yet these commercials are continually made, so I suspect they work and that the hatred is real. I also suspect that my noticing it makes me a misogynist, but then again, everything does.

Second, and deeper, is what I perceive as a level of comfort that most people -- men and women -- derive from insulting portrayals of men. This is how men are supposed to be. Whatever scorn women might have for the horny doofus, it is nothing compared to the scorn they have for a man who won't fit this mold, who is intelligent, refined, well-dressed, or considerate. Such a man might not need her to tell him what to do! And maybe she's not nearly as smart as she thinks she is! Well, he must be gay then (just as Kevin Kline's refined character eventually discovered in the film In & Out). Most men are equally swift to condemn as "fags" any men who dare to wander off the plantation this way. Like Uncle Tom, most men wish to keep their masters happy, and the sight of a man who defines himself by something other than women terrifies them.

Republicans Triumph, And The Band Plays On

The Republicans have achieved incredible gains in the mid-term elections. Now imagine all the wonderful things they can do once they have a Republican president! They can finally implement all their small-government ideas and bring us closer to the Constitution as written.

Or not. We've been down this road before, and in recent memory: from 2001 to 2007 the Republicans owned all three branches of government and did as much to destroy the Constitution and America, in as little time, as the Democrats could dream of in their perverted fantasies.

No matter how many times the two major parties toss power back and forth in their little Kabuki dance, most everyone watches in rapt attention on the belief that every exchange signals a new dawn. Yet nothing ever changes. Government continues its steady march toward the total state; it continues spending ever larger amounts than it can afford; it continues operating ever further beyond the boundaries of the Constitution; and the Titanic continues sinking as the band plays on.

There's No Denying It

America is past the point of redemption, at least in its current form. Just read this story about some course offerings at Harvard University, two of which are "What What In The Butt: Anal Sex 101" and "Fifty Shades Of False: Kink, Fantasy, and Fetish." So even America's "elite" universities are churning out thugs and idiots incapable of maintaining civilization. To add insult to injury, they are doing it with my tax dollars, yet another unconstitutional aspect of modern times.

My favorite analogy is to a massive star on the verge of collapse. At a certain point the star crosses a threshold where its core can no longer generate nuclear reactions giving off a net positive of energy; as soon as it begins producing heavier elements (starting with iron), all reactions are a net energy loss, and gravity ultimately wins the battle as the star collapses and explodes. We too are no longer capable of producing people/elements that add to America's lifespan. We produce more takers than creators, more dependent fools than independent educated, and more degenerate scum than morally upright. Look at and listen to the majority of people you run into on a daily basis, and it's undeniable.

Modern America is deeply invested in failure. It is now part of the national DNA, found in virtually every corrupt notion or premise that Americans carry around in their heads, and no amount of browbeating or electioneering can change it. It will run its course, and the job of the remnant is to preserve what is good from the chaos swirling around us.