How the reign of King Obama came to an end
This excellent article by David Samuels of Tablet magazine explains how the Democratic Party gained and abused power over the last sixteen years since the election and coronation of Barak Obama.
The article is long and reads much like an academic treatise on politics, history, and psychology. I strongly recommend reading it, but I’m also going to summarize it here for those without the time to consume and contemplate the whole thing.
Historically, at least in the 20th century, political candidates won elections by showing how good they were and how bad their opponents were. Then came David Axelrod. The son of a psychologist father and an advertising executive mother, he invented what he called “permission structures.” Although a somewhat vague term, it refers to giving permission to voters to vote for a candidate they don’t actually like or whose policies go against their beliefs. That’s how he got Barak Obama elected. I would actually characterize it as “voter shaming.” In the case of Obama, he convinced white voters in particular that their friends were voting for him (whether true or not), so that voting against him would isolate them and prove that they were racists.
Once Obama was in office, the Democrats understood that they needed to pressure the social networks in the same way, and shame them into going along with their objectives. Whether it was the Iran deal, which went against the ideologies of the party’s large Jewish contingency, or the Occupy movement, the immigration debacle, Obamacare, or American unexceptionalism, which all went against American desires and basic principles.
When Donald Trump ran for election in 2016, the Democrats pulled out all the stops, convincing Big Tech, already under their influence, to suppress “misinformation” like the Russia Hoax. They did this by manufacturing opinions on social media, then getting other social media influencers (including 51 former high ranking U.S. government intelligence and security officials) to reference and repeat these opinions and then getting mainstream media to quote these manipulated opinions as fact. Normal critical thinking was gone. Challenge one of these opinions and the Democratic Party, and possibly Obama himself, would publicly call you the enemy.
The Democrats were taken by surprise when Trump won in 2016, and Samuels surmises that Obama refused to fully cooperate with Hillary Clinton whom he saw as his rival for political power within the Democratic party. But Obama’s influence didn’t wane, from the cover up of the Hunter Biden laptop to BLM riots to the COVID injections (I refuse to call them “vaccines”). Obama and the Democrats continued to work to shame people into voting for Joe Biden.
Samuels credits three world figures for finally breaking the Democrat’s totalitarian grasp on power: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Musk bought Twitter and brought back free speech, pulling it out from under Democrat control.
Trump became a hero, especially after surviving two assassination attempts.
Netanyahu defeated Iran and its proxies, ignoring U.S. protests and restrictions, effectively saving Western civilization from the most evil regime on the planet.
I would add the American people to that list. After 16 years of the Democrats pushing crazy, damaging woke ideology, oppressing Americans’ speech, and calling most citizens racist, transphobic, intolerant, xenophobic garbage, Americans did what they have done throughout history. They rebelled. The key is to keep that rebellion going. As Ronald Reagan said:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.
About the author
Bob Zeidman is the creator of the field of software forensics and the founder of several successful high-tech Silicon Valley firms including Zeidman Consulting and Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering. His latest venture is Good Beat Poker, a new way to play and watch poker online. He is the author of textbooks on engineering and intellectual property as well as award-winning screenplays and novels. His latest book is Election Hacks, the true story of how he challenged his own beliefs about voting machine hacking in the 2020 presidential election and made international news and (possibly) $5 million.