Who knows now that we are living in the fast-hardening cement of America’s “fundamental transformation,” a promise Barack Obama cheered wildly to crowds on the campaign trail in 2008? It should be painfully obvious.
Anyone who remembers decades ago, when Obama was a two-term president, remembers a country committed to fairness and common sense.
- Judge people based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
- We welcome those who entered the country legally and endured the difficult citizenship process.
- It never occurs to me that women’s sports and women’s sports are only for people who were born female and do not have a trace of testosterone in their bodies, let alone steroids.
- Very immature men dressed as fake women, such as clowns, hide out in “special” bars and clubs, hoping that they won’t be picked up by kindergartners as a show of bravery. Ta.
- I admit without a shadow of a doubt that Marxism is a bad idea and not an ideal.
- No one other than a tyrant would ever think of putting a political opponent in jail just for questioning a dubious election result.
And generally, in more just-thinking times, no one thought of gleefully calling evil “good” and good “evil.”
Of course, this is only a very short list of the epithets that are forced down the throats of ordinary, common-sense Americans on a daily basis. (I’ll leave it up to you to shout out a few dozen more.)
America has turned into Obamaville.
As I point out in my new book, “Obvious: Seeing visible evil and doing something about it.”, this slow pot of boiling America’s frogs are listlessly rowing over all started with the nomination of Barack Obama.
People were so desperate for what President Obama was touting – “hope and change” – that they inserted whatever their hearts desired most in that second word. And indeed, the man’s skin color was a huge selling point. Indeed, this candidate has virtually no track record, and if he were white, the 2008 Democratic nominee would have been Hillary Clinton. But the interracial aspect of Obama’s candidacy was seen as a way to finally unify the country, perhaps even symbolically. After the past decades of racial tensions.
Many conservatives like to push back on accusations that America is “systemically racist” by citing the 2008 election. Would a racist nation vote a black man for president? tends to be the main point of discussion.
But wouldn’t it be more accurate to say vote? for Are people also racist based on their skin color? Racism goes both ways. That’s why anyone who says black people can’t be racist is making a racist statement.
“It’s not about the skin,” a friend once told me. “It’s about sin.”
The Bible says, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” It doesn’t matter who you are. Some people tend to steal, some people tend to cheat, some people tend to lie, some people tend to murder, and some people tend to treat others with contempt. And of course, many of us are good at picking a smorgasbord of almost everything (and sometimes several) on that list from time to time.
So where does all this leave us?
The left did not expect Donald Trump to win the presidency in 2016. His administration had a difficult path. And in just a few short years, we’ve fallen all the way down to Pottersville, to the “It’s a Wonderful Life” Bedford Falls. America has turned into Obamaville.
It’s definitely late. The November election will be crucial in undoing many terrible changes.
And if, as some pundits are starting to think, we add the added twist that the Democratic standard-bearer could suddenly be the new Obama, the history-making first female U.S. president; I just hope we have enough in common. People feel that by voting for her, she won’t do anything “systemically sexist.”
This time around, vigilance is needed to ensure free and fair elections and to prevent the cement of “fundamental change” from hardening into an unbreakable rock.
Editor’s note: A version of this article was originally published at: stream.
