History records that at the end of the Second World War, trapped in his underground Fuehrerbunker beneath the ruined Reich Chancellery in Berlin, when he finally admitted that the war, his grand crusade against all the ethnicities he considered "subhuman" and unfit to share the planet, was lost, Adolph Hitler did not blame his defeat on his incompetent generalissimoship, or getting carried away and making foolish strategic decisions like invading the Soviet Union before Great Britain was defeated and declaring war on the United States after Pearl Harbor when he was not required to do so by the Tripartite Pact. Instead, Hitler indicted....the German people themselves. In classic Darwinian fashion, he concluded that even his own people had failed him, weren't good enough or strong enough or noble enough to carry out his cause, and thus deserved to be wiped out and/or enslaved, which they were for the next forty-four years.
There was a lot of this same vibe in a speech Barack Hussein Obama made to a Democrat fundraiser last night:
Barack Obama wrapped up a day he began with an angry and frustrated reaction to the mass killings in Charleston, S.C., by acknowledging that he has been unable to change the culture of polarization and gridlock in Washington.
The culture of polarization and gridlock in Washington that he has gone to shamelessly grotesque lengths to deepen, worsen, and exacerbate for his own extremist ends.
But he also challenged Democrat supporters to do their part to make the political changes rather than remain disillusioned about the inability of the nation’s capital to respond to gun violence and other problems.
In other words, he suborned further polarization and gridlock for The Cause.
“When I ran in 2008, I in fact did not say I would fix it. I said we could fix it,” Obama told an audience of about tweo hundred fifty at a fundraising event here at the stately hillside home of film mogul Tyler Perry. “I didn’t say, ‘Yes, I can.’ I said, ‘Yes, we can.'”
Yeah, he did say that. But in practice what he meant was, "Yes, you better!" while he went off to play his next eighteen holes or jam with Paul McCartney or jet-set to Hawaii or Italy or wherever, because it's good to be the king.
I've always objected when Obama critics knock him for "lacking leadership," because the truth is he has exercised leadership - just in the diametrically wrong direction and in tyrannical fashion. But maybe there is something to that critique. Leadership is, after all, more than just giving orders. A leader must not just command his subordinates, but also command the situation. He or she must manage them, not just bellow directions and bully and abuse and cuss them out if they don't instantly comply, regardless of circumstances that he or she perhaps hasn't considered. He/she must recognize when a softer hand, finesse, and empathy are called for.
AND a leader must never forget who are his/her subordinates and who are his/her superiors. That a POTUS is not supposed to rule the American people, but serve them, and accept their verdict when they don't wish to go in the direction he/she thinks they should.
Barack Obama clearly disagrees. In his mind, he's the ruler, everybody else - Congress, the courts, the States, We the People - are subordinate to him, we're obligated to blindly, unquestioningly, and gratefully obey his royal decrees, and any of us that do not are "rebel scum" meriting his abject contempt....or worse.
And now he's concluded that even his own party has failed him, and they are now feeling his butthurt wrath.
The president continued: “If you’re dissatisfied that every few months we have a mass shooting in this country killing innocent people, then I need you to mobilize and organize a constituency that says this is not normal and we are going to change it.”
Law and Constitution and the will of We the People be damned. But that's your responsibility; I've got a Galaga tournament to take by storm.
Hitler was a monster and a hateful, genocidal mass-murderer, but was he ever this shallow?
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