As Victor Davis Hanson notes:
The messianic style—the cosmic tug to “change history”, or stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, juxtaposed with the creepy faux-Greek columns, Michelle’s “deign to enter” politics snippet, the fainting at rallies, the Victory Column mass address, the vero possumus presidential seal, and the ‘we are the change we’ve been waiting for’ mantra—reflects the omnipresent narcissism: the exalted ends of electing a prophet always justify the often crude and all too mortal means.
The Obama phenomena reminds me of nothing so much as the “cult of personality” nonsense ginned up for various communist and fascist dictators – the wise and charismatic leader and teacher for whom all must be given because only said leader can pull the rabbit of happiness out of the hat of global angst. It should be noted that this sort of thing only started to arise in the West as the influence of Christianity started to wane – and it is the nature outgrowth of the post-Christian mindset. People do want to hope for a better future and if they are denied (or deny themselves) the hope of the world to come, they will demand that their hopes be catered to in this world. Enter the new messiahs who will fix things right up.
Like the secular messiahs of the past, Obama comes to the pinnacle as a person who is very thin on any accomplishment other than an uncanny ability to obtain power and inspire legions of followers who not only lavish The One with endless praise, but turn immediately on anyone who questions the Dear Leaders’s ability or motivation. Its really rather creepy, if you ask me – and in a very real sense, it is un-American. If there was ever an American due the sort of praise Obama gets, it was the Essential American, George Washington – without whom there wouldn’t be a United States at all. But can anyone imagine our ancestors lavishing the Father of our Country with the sort of servile flattery Obama has been given? Can anyone imagine Washington tolerating such anti-republican monstrosities?
There is something nauseating in the whole Obama spectacle – Americans should never be followers; supporters, yes, but not followers. Obama has followers – and how you are treated by Obama is entirely determined by how much you conform yourself to his desires. This did, by the way, come out rather early on when Obama took a reporter aside and scolded her for daring to point out that Obama’s ears have a Dumbo-like quality about them. A man not hung up on himself would have laughed such a thing off – a person who thinks very highly of himself goes out of his way to instruct the erring in the proper way to treat Obama.
It will all come crashing down – hopefully on November 4th, but certainly it will come; someone as arrogantly self-centered as Obama is bound for a fall.
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