On 11/23/2016 1:53 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> Why doesn't Clinton and Obama lecture
>> them about
>> peaceful transfer of power and respect the outcome of the elections,
>> like they did to conservatives?
>
> Obama *has* done exactly that.
BULLSHIT LIE!
He has lectured TRUMP on how to behave!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/16/donald-trump-and-the-authentic-black-swan-event/
The election of Donald Trump as president has been regarded by some as a
black swan event: an extremely rare occurrence so unexpected and
consequential that it generates stunning changes in the existing order.
But in retrospect, the election of Mr. Trump is not the black swan event.
No, the election of Barack Obama was the seismic aberration.
And the triumph of Mr. Trump is the national self-correction back to the
center-right, a state of normalcy, and most importantly, to the
country’s natural and rightful exceptionalism.
It turns out that Mr. Trump is the rule, while Mr. Obama was the
anomalous exception.
The Obama cult of personality was built primarily on five things: the
dynamism of the man, the power of his personal story, the change he
represented (generational, political, racial), the emotional draw of
white guilt, and the call on the American heart for idealism. The
Clintons, quickly cast out as the old brand, were replaced by the new
Obama brand that promised a different kind of politics.
He was brilliant, savvy, charismatic and a superb rhetorician who knew
how to win. Perhaps even more importantly, as the first viable black
candidate for president, he allowed white America to believe it had
advanced toward vanquishing racism once and for all in the ultimate
feel-good moment.
Mr. Obama had never expressed an unadulterated love for America, only
deep critiques of its racial divides, social and economic injustices,
and bullying ways in the world. His detached persona mirrored a
detachment from fundamental American values.
It helped that he was cool, as in “hip,” but he was also cool as in
“unflappable,” which came in handy as he led the leftist revolution. How
could someone that seemingly rational want to radicalize the United
States? Most people would not believe the truth about him and his
motives — until it was too late.
Once he was sworn in as president, however, the American people took a
backseat to his redistributionist agenda. After all, the people weren’t
critical to his plans. In fact, we were an impediment to them, something
to be finessed, lied to and manipulated. As Jon Stewart aptly noted in
Rolling Stone in fall 2011, “I think he was already kind of over us by
the time he got into office.”
To Mr. Obama, any public disapproval of his plans needed to be removed
or crushed. Campaigning as a transcendent figure and governing as a
committed redistributionist involved two different skill sets. Once he
became president, the unifying, amber-lit guy disappeared and was
replaced by the guy who slapped down Republican congressional leaders
and the American people with a curt “I won” and a relentless forward
march toward executive actions and strictly party line dictates.
As time passed, the Obama hypnosis began to wear off and the
redistributionists’ agenda ripened. Pretty soon, “stimulus,” omnibus
spending, bailouts, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank financial regulation, and
suffocating regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency and
National Labor Relations Board were no longer the dynamic new policies
of the hip president but the destructive policies of a president bent on
deconstructing America. Despite his assurances that he’d deliver glowing
economic results, he instead produced crippling economic weakness.
Within a few months of their takeover, the Democrats’ casualties began
to pile up. In November 2009, voters in deep-blue New Jersey and purple
Virginia elected Republican governors. In January 2010, voters in even
bluer Massachusetts elected a Republican senator, Scott Brown, to
replace Edward Kennedy. In November 2010, voters across the country
swept Republicans into control of the House and closer to control of the
Senate, which they ultimately delivered in another Republican-sweep
year, 2014.
Last week, the voters delivered the final coup de grace to Mr. Obama and
his agenda, by turning control of the White House, the Senate and House
and about two-thirds of the nation’s governorships and state
legislatures over to Republicans.
Shortly after he was elected, Mr. Obama and his supporters in the
political class told us that he had redrawn the political map by
creating a new, long-term Democrat majority. Instead, by ramming through
his leftist agenda, he decimated his party and created the conditions
for its complete reversal. And he gave rise to a Republican populist who
has already succeeding in redrawing the political map in ways that
threaten the Democrats’ long-term viability.
That is a supreme irony, and perhaps his real legacy.
After being led on this long detour into the desert by a faux political
Moses in Mr. Obama, we are now being led out of it by a more improbable
but authentic political Moses in Donald Trump.
And while the actual black swan event is coming to its end, the guy from
Queens, N.Y., is already beginning to restore our equilibrium.