There were two big takeaways for me on 2016: Obama's America.
One was the united front that Barry and his mom formed against
stepfather Lolo Soetero's capitalist career working for an evil oil
company in Indonesia. The other was Dinesh D'Souza's interview
with one of Barack Senior's old anti-colonialist buddies back in
Kenya. The old guy is still spouting the anti-colonial bunkum about the
Brits looting the colonies and its modern refrain, that the U.S. is in
the Middle East to grab the oil. Oh, and the Arabs are victims of the
Israelis.
Dinesh's movie reminds us that our 2012 presidential candidates are unapologetic representatives of two great 19th-century belief systems. Barack Obama believes in the Exploitation narrative, invented by Marx and extended by Lenin. To Obama and his lefty mom, oil companies might as well be 19th-century textile sweatshops, and the highest calling in the world is to advocate for the poor against the capitalist exploiters.
Mitt Romney is a horse of a different color. He belongs to a church founded in America's Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century. He practices the modern capitalism of the 21st century. You take money from where it is to where it is wanted, helping start new companies or trying to save old ones. You hire the best people and train them up, and give them all the responsibility they can handle. When you see a problem, he writes, you "run toward it or it will only get worse." No "leading from behind" for Mitt.
Dinesh's movie reminds us that our 2012 presidential candidates are unapologetic representatives of two great 19th-century belief systems. Barack Obama believes in the Exploitation narrative, invented by Marx and extended by Lenin. To Obama and his lefty mom, oil companies might as well be 19th-century textile sweatshops, and the highest calling in the world is to advocate for the poor against the capitalist exploiters.
Mitt Romney is a horse of a different color. He belongs to a church founded in America's Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century. He practices the modern capitalism of the 21st century. You take money from where it is to where it is wanted, helping start new companies or trying to save old ones. You hire the best people and train them up, and give them all the responsibility they can handle. When you see a problem, he writes, you "run toward it or it will only get worse." No "leading from behind" for Mitt.
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