No Mr. Obama, the government is not us, IT IS YOU!

 

 

President Obama has been a principle offender in the fine art of the perpetual divide between logic and politics, often attaching empty catch phrases to his further encroachments on American civil and economic liberties such as "common sense", as if such a thing has applied to politics at any time in recent memory. But while surrounded by a massive gallery of gun and badge toting police officers and pontificating on his need to further crack down on our freedoms due to the recent Sandy Hook tragedy, Obama has actually sunk to a new low with regards to insulting the intelligence of any and all people living within America's borders.

 

The phrase "we are the government" is potentially true if the "we" in question is Obama himself, his allies in congress and the people who support his policies (who are less than 30% of the entire population of eligible voters in this country and just barely 50% of those who turn out). However, if the implication is that "we" includes every single person bound by the U.S. Constitution (Obama's favorite brand of toilet paper on matters of fiscal and foreign policy), then I am afraid that I have to disagree with the president. Contrary to what he says, he is not my president, nor was his predecessor George W. Bush, given that I did not vote for either one of them. More than 1 million people are disqualified from this collective given that they don't vote for either of the 2 major political parties, let alone the tens of millions who don't validate the whole political process with any participation to speak of.

 

Furthermore, this whole "trust us" attitude that Obama insist that we all follow is counter-intuitive when considering his continual reversal on campaign promise after campaign promise. But this speaks to a much deeper issue, one that any so-called "common sense" thinker should have discovered a long time ago, and that is that the government can not represent us because it is in no way accountable to us. There are too many examples in recent history of presidents and legislatures governing against the so-called "will of the people" to name them all, not the least of which being the lack of public support for staying in Iraq and Afghanistan for over a decade, let alone the secret undeclared military operations and drone strikes being waged in countries like Yemen, Pakistan and our secret arms deals with Syrian jihadists.

But perhaps the most utterly amusing and pathetically untrue part of this diatribe of the president's is the idea that because a government is elected or otherwise comes out of a given population, it is automatically accountable. Forgive the bluntness of the author of this blog, but Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hugo Chavez, and a whole host of other dictators have not been foreign occupiers, but popular governing figures from their respective populations who were simply adept at silencing their opponents. Similarly, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was executed via the democratic process for simply speaking his mind. Does Barack Obama seriously expect anyone with a single iota of sense to trust in a democratic process because it is such given its extremely poor history of respecting minority and individual rights?

 

At this juncture, the American narrative has gone well beyond the realm of logical discourse, so much so that it is to the point that logic is not merely avoided, but treated with scorn. The fact that this sort of nonsense can be propagated and receive thunderous applause is indicative of a society that is all too willing to embrace tyranny simply because the tyrant tells us it's what is best for us. If America is to avoid or even survive the coming economic and civil unrest that our so-called public servants have been leading us to, it will be because the enemies of logic, both liberal and neo-conservative, are shut out of the political process completely and marginalized from any further influence on our culture.