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Never seen a more perfect illustration of the liberal disconnect from reality:

…the very visibility of Barack Obama – let alone his candidacy for the most powerful and, before Bush, the most esteemed job in the world – creates a category crisis of epic proportions. He not only mouths a rhetoric of transcending division, but is himself a seamless genetic integration of what should be immiscible. The decent, God-fearing racist must be plagued by unanswerable questions: What is this incomprehensible mutation of badness and goodness? How can the same person contain that with which I identify and which I despise? What does that make me?

In the course of the presidential campaign, we have heard Republican ads and seen GOP viral emails that pose more rational-seeming derivatives of these questions: Who is Barack Obama? Do we actually know him? Doesn’t he sound kind of uppity and elitist? Is he a Christian or a Muslim? Is he really like us? Didn’t he grow up in one of those anti-American parts of America, like Hawaii?

By way of concluding, I want to emphasize that most Americans are not consciously racist, and would abhor the prejudice and ignorance manifested by the good white Christians cited above. But as Drew Westen and other researchers have shown, the majority of people – black as well as white – harbor an unconscious negative bias against anyone perceived as black. At a deep level, most of us make use of racial categories to navigate the world, manage its vague and unseen threats, and define our worth.

And why should we expect otherwise? Every person in this country is embedded in a culture and history founded on racist beliefs, practices, and emotions. There is no place to stand outside this psychological and social reality. It saturates our national sense of self and structures our neural networks.

What is possible, however, is to acknowledge and remain mindful of this ugly and disturbing legacy so that we can minimize its influence on how we treat others, and how we elect leaders to public office. And, as the enthusiastic throngs of citizens, here and abroad, attest, it is even possible to move beyond “tolerance” – to embrace and celebrate the fluidity of categories, cultures, and identities that Obama’s candidacy has come to symbolize.

Glad to know I’m not consciously racist – as long as its only my subconscious controlled by my religious indoctrination, then its something which liberals can save me from. What a load of nonsense.

To believe that we are a people founded upon racist beliefs takes a great deal of self-enforced ignorance – not just of history, but of people in the real world. I’d like to actually see the steps in a controlled setting where someone goes from a person able to take the world as it is to being a person who constructs a fantasy life based on the world as one wishes it is. Just how does a person – presumably either non-racist, himself, or at least so wise as to be able to control it (thinking like a liberal here, for a moment, boys and girls) – who has lived among people come to such a negative, dishonest and hate-filled view of them? Getting to the bottom of this, I think, would help us explain the phenomena of people like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao and allow us to set up correctives against any such things happening in the future.

Rather than living in the real world where people are, well, people and do good and bad based upon choice and where our flawed nature is inherent in our Fall from grace, liberals live in the Alternate Universe where the United States is nothing but a grand, wicked, racist experiment in how to be as murderously greedy as possible. Continuing in this liberal mindset is the liberal idea that they, because they are smarter than the average person, have figured it all out and thus have a mission – to save us benighted bigots from ourselves. They have to figure out – by hook or crook – some means of obtaining and retaining power over us so that they may slowly remake us in the liberal image. We’ll never be free from racism, of course, but we’ll at least be conditioned by liberalism to the point where we recognize our inherent racism and are thus willing to make amends for it (to be freed from racism we’d have to be liberal, but to be liberal we’d have to be smart enough to already know that liberalism is the way to go; if you’re over the age of 18 and are not liberal, then you are inherently not as smart as liberals, and thus you’ll never figure out – on your own – that being racist is bad).

If Obama looses a week from Tuesday, liberals will say that it was because of racism – with the more paranoid among them convincing themselves that it was a racist conspiracy to defraud an electorate which, finally, was seeing the non-racist light but which was thwarted in its liberal desire by wicked men who want to keep racism alive so that they can continue to be rich, and evil, and rape the environment, and destroy all life on this planet, because they are stupid, and evil. But the fact of the matter will be, if Obama loses, that he’ll lose because he’s a pinheaded pinko of no accomplishments who has no business running for President to begin with – as he, himself, noted shortly after he was elected to the United States Senate. In a center/right America the chances of a kook lefty like Obama getting elected President are thin – and the only reason he’s gotten as far as he has is due to a successful program of slander against the GOP coupled with a massive boost from a slavishly devoted MSM. This might carry the dead cat across the finish line, and it might not – but if Obama loses it won’t be because of racism any more than if he wins it is because people suddenly feel that we need a post-racial healer to make us all better.

Meanwhile, though, we’ll be stuck with people like the author of the quoted piece – people who can’t see what is right in front of them, but who presume to tell us what ails us, and how we are to fix ourselves.