Republicans will gain an unknown number of seats in Congress this year. The Party that is opposite the President gains in almost every mid-term election. This has been the pattern for many years.
This year, though, I believe we are seeing a qualitative change. Let us suppose that some 30% of the people will always vote Republican, and 30% always Democrat. This leaves 40% that until this year had some trust for both parties.
What I think independents are increasingly realizing is the size and scope of the deception that has been perpetrated on them. How is it even CONCEIVABLE that we could swear in a United States President with lifelong associations with Communists, and not ask even the most rudimentary questions about his background. How is that a photocopy of an incomplete birth certificate posted on a website and the word of a Democratic functionary in his home state counts as proof of eligibility? I very literally could not get a passport or driver’s license with what he has provided, and he has actively OPPOSED the People getting access to what information we are told the State of Hawaii possesses. To be clear, when he was born, the State of Hawaii would take the word of the parents for where the child was born. You just had to let them know you had had a child within the first YEAR of the childs life. A notice of live birth in the newspaper, for example, would have been quite sufficient. Who placed that ad? Presumably his parents.
Columbia University was a hotbed of radicalism. It was the seat of both the Students for a Democratic [read fascist Socialist; if their lips are moving, they are lying] Society, and its offshoot, the Weather Underground. During the years he attended, 1981-1983, it seems not just possible but likely that he took classes from Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, who were both socialists who developed a plan to bankrupt the nation so as to facilitate what would have amounted to a “revolution” away from Constitutional democracy.
He likely took classes with Edward Said, a prominent “Palestinian” activist, and member of that ritualistic academic cult called “post-structuralism”, which I prefer to call Postrationalism. They use incense wine and candles to create the elaborate illusion that some sort of useful thinking is going on.
And this is just a smattering of the possibilities. Columbia, in the immediate aftermath of the student radicalism of the 60’s and early 70’s would have been utterly uncongenial to all but the ideologically sympathetic. Literally every teacher he would have had would have been far to the left of the general population.
In a more general sense, Columbia and Harvard between them produced in the Cold War virtually every Soviet agent we had. Our President, obviously, has degrees from both schools. If you add UC-Berkeley, you have a high percentage of the student radicals of the period when we were trying to save South Vietnam from the imposition of fascist tyranny.
One can go on and on. The grandfather who raised him was apparently good friends with Frank Davis, who was a known member of the Communist Party. Allegedly, he and Davis did drugs together. It is even possible that Davis and Obama’s mother were lovers. This is the internet, and it’s impossible from here to rule out photoshopping, but that very definitely looks like his mother.
Add to that the following two facts, and these are facts: 1) Davis wrote a book called “Sex Rebel” under the pseudonym Bob Greene, in which he described all sorts of what most of us would call perversions. Let me offer up a summary:
He was also utterly uninterested in the sanctity of marriage, and often cheated with other men’s wives.
2) Bob Greene/Frank Marshall Davis was a mentor to our President. He mentions having talked to him just prior to heading off to California for college, which Davis called “an advanced degree in compromise” (Obama quoting Davis).
I could go on and on. Obama himself cites Saul Alinsky as his biggest political influence.
The point I had intended to make, before I once again did some research, and once again had to shake my head at the LUNACY we committed in electing this man: when ordinary, reasoning people see the GAP between reality and the sanitized, redacted, ILLUSION that our media–in general, Fox and especially Glenn Beck excepted–portray, they are forced away from complacenty and into the realization “I HAVE TO THINK”. We can’t just blindly trust that the Fourth Estate is doing its job. We have to gather the facts. We have to render judgement.
We have to care. We have to be active. We have to fight not just against the seizure of power by evil human beings, but against the cultural malaise and anomie which they have done so much to create by teaching graduates of our institutions of higher learning to reject all values but political conformity to their agenda.
Every person who reaches this realization will be permanently radicalized as an anti-Leftist, pro-democracy American. Every person who sees the congruity between Democratic leadership and the Obama agenda will likewise realize that until they get the radicals out of the drivers seat, they very simply cannot vote for a Democrat. This does not make the Republicans saints, but at a minimum they are not openly supporting the wholesale conquest of our private lives, and the conscious pursuit of economically ruinous policies.