Reply #16: This Is Par for the Course for the President [View All]

[CrackpotAmerica]

What we must all understand is that this President and his constituency are not from a world or culture that is based in reality. Rather, these are people who have had the benefit of wealth, status, power, or any combination of the three for most, if not all, of their lives.

The reality of these people is one of complete ignorance and lack of understanding for what I assume they would call "the common man." The only method these people can use to try to assimilate with the reality of the typical American is to bring up the hard working "steel mill" and "Jim Crow" histories of those whom they appoint. In all actuality, the President has never experienced a broke month, an African American community., nor an Islamic value. He has had no struggle. He has earned no character nor dignity for himself. He has never unwillingly been forced to accomplish anything to sustain himself nor his family.

His world is nothing short of imperial. He is a noble in his own mind. One who feels he and his counterparts have been appointed by the creator to choose and delineate the morality and direction of the world. To him, everyone outside of his world is "they." To him, the complexity of our great and diverse world can only be seen in black and white. And so, he has chosen to ignore the desperation and poverty that leads young men and wormen to serve these atrocious organizations who slaughter innocent people, who hold the same disturbing belief in their own divinity. He merely condemns them all as "evil," just as those despicable men of power on the opposite side do.

The result is what we see today. Thousands of American heroes robbed of their greatest possession. Tens of thousands of innocent people lying in vast graves. Thousands more tortured and falsely imprisoned. Millions of American citizens holding on to the last scraps of their civil rights.

We must put an end to this imperial culture within our highest offices in government. The alternative, which we shall all witness, will be a grave and detrimental legacy to our children.