Popular Despite Incompetence

Hillary Clinton is running for a third Obama term, banking on Obama's popularity.  

Can someone tell me why Obama is popular?  It is not due to policy success. Obamacare, his signature legislation, is a disaster—coverage is becoming narrower, premiums and deductibles are climbing, and the number of government-funded Medicaid recipients has skyrocketed.  Even democrats are distancing themselves from this Frankenstein’s monster.  The economy is limping along at about 1% GDP growth.  Labor participation rates are the lowest since 1977, compounding the significant increase in the number of Americans dependent upon government subsidies.  Our national debt is at $20 trillion while unfunded liabilities are in the hundreds of trillions.  Our military has been emasculated.

As the presidential election looms, Russia has become the preferred partner to Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Now, the Philippines have aligned with China. These developments stem from foreign policy incompetence.

          Mr. Trump made this observation in the third debate: "If she did nothing, we'd be in much better shape. And this is what's caused the great migration, where she's taking in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, who probably in many cases -- not probably, who are definitely...in many cases, ISIS-aligned, and we now have them in our country, and wait until you see -- this is going to be the great Trojan horse.  And wait until you see what happens in the coming years. Lots of luck, Hillary. Thanks a lot for doing a great job."

Thus, domestically and internationally America’s policies have failed to make things better, let  alone maintain some semblance of stability, prosperity, and peace; Obama policies have made domestic and foreign conditions worse.

Perhaps Obama's popularity is due to one major change:  as promised, Obama has in fact transformed America.  This transformation affects the economic, political, and social dimensions of our society.  He has convinced many socialists that capitalism is evil, and that the wealthy have not paid their fair share of taxes (despite generating the most tax revenue in our nation’s history).  He has convinced many progressives that their ideology is the only correct and moral view of the world.  And, he has convinced the secular humanists that Judeo-Christian principles and traditions are a threat to a woman’s reproductive rights, homosexual sodomy, and those who are confused about their gender.  Facts don’t matter, only a good story does (as he emphasized during a 60 Minutes interview in terms of his only regret during his first term).  This is why movements like Black Lives Matter (which emerged from the unsubstantiated belief that Michael Brown was unjustly killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri) are so important in his vision for transformation.  Actual facts are irrelevant as the following FBI data reveals blacks are killed by blacks 10 times more frequently than by whites:

          There are too many Americans who see the truth, but are afraid to share it with their friends because they do not want to be accused of being racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist, and so forth.  When Hillary trotted out the Gold Star Khan family at the Democratic National Convention, the purpose was not to honor sons and daughters lost in combat, but to demonize Trump.  The Khans became a human shield for Hillary’s (and her progressive mafia) orchestrated attacks on Trump.  This was designed as a trap—one that Trump could not avoid.  Trump’s first comments about this were in response to questions by George Stephanopoulos (a former Clinton policy adviser and Clinton Foundation donor).  This was a masterfully manufactured and orchestrated news cycle to demonstrate Trump's Islamophobia.     

So, why is Obama so popular?  The voice of the public narrative (mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and the ruling class in general) wants him to be popular because he is the face of progressivism—the ideology that seeks utopia this side of eternity, which can only be made so through social justice administered by a ruling elite.  Yet, the mess that is everywhere reeks of incompetence in light of a once great America known for its vision, declared in the Declaration of Independence, and its system of limited and enumerated governance, described in the original Constitution.

Trump fights for a renewal of this vision, for everyone, especially our indentured classes within Democrat-run inner cities.  Clinton and her supporters represent the domestic enemies I swore to defeat in my commissioning oath:  “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.”  Cicero observed similar dangers in his own day.  We would be wise to recognize the similarities captured in Cicero's statement:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

The significant divisiveness and lack of civility that permeates our nation reflects such a rotted soul.  Obama owns this transformation.  It is difficult for many to discern the reason's for America's rotted soul because Cicero’s “traitor” is popular.  Betting on this popularity by electing Hillary to a third Obama term would be foolish because it would reinforce the incompetency that has placed America and the entire international system on the threshold of utter catastrophe. 

          Rise up Americans.  This is our country.  Fight for it!  America must be great again.  Americans and the rest of the world depend upon it.