THE REAL POLITIK ISSUE: VOLUME 131, ISSUE 167
THE COLLATZ CONJECTURE
WHEN HATING OBAMA IS THE FINAL SOLUTION
by Malik Isasis
When the Tea Party howls at the moon the corporate media trip over themselves to smell their shit. The Tea Party is new, and shiny, a fresh branding of the Republican Party after 8 years of a Bush economy that sent the United States into a lost decade. Born out of the election of Barack Obama 2.7 years ago, right wing political mercenaries saw an opportunity to rewrite history, and the legacy of bad Republican economic policy by making every government deficit and problem since the founding of the country, Obama’s burden, alone.
THE ID
The Collatz Conjecture is an elementary mathematical equation that has yet to be solved. This is the predicament President Obama finds himself in politically, sandwiched between a rabid right, a milquetoast corporate media industrial complex, a disappointed base, and an unreasonable, almost pathological need to compromise with those who would rather ruin the country than give him any kind of political victory. Obama’s willingness to avoid fighting, to avoid the Angry Black Man label, has embolden the Republican Party, their supporters, and their politically mercenaries (Fox News, Talk Radio, conservative Think Tanks) to show an unprecedented amount of disrespect toward the office of the president daily—an almost personal ad hominem attacks, according to the New York Times.
Here is an example of the level of personal attacks:
The Bush legacy is not only the economic disaster, and a Middle East left on fire, but a Republican Party, which no longer respects rules and traditions of governance. Like George Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, truth no longer matters, only the religious fervor of their talking points. After eight years of watching George W. Bush use the federal government to make the largest transfer of wealth in human history from the public sphere to private sphere with wars, and unaccountable, non-bid contracts to corporations, the privatization of public schools, bank bailouts (which begun under Bush) and the military, his Republican Party adapted Bush’s and Cheney’s lizard brain way of governance, that is to say, to show contempt toward the people they govern and those who disagree with them.
Driven by the id, base emotion, Republicans are like the jealous boyfriend, if he can’t have you, no one can. They only hate the government when they are not in power. For a group that hates the federal government so much, the Republicans spend an average of 18 years in Congress, and of the longest serving Congress members, Republicans averaged 41 years—that’s a lot of time to serve at a job they hate, but go out of their way to have.
The Republican conservative cabal reminds me of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, whose obsession with the ring, drove him mad. Like Gollum, the Republicans’ minds are so consumed with getting the powers of the presidency, that they’ve become cartoonishly evil, histrionic, and abhorrently immature. They have achieved a level of political petulance haven’t seen in a long while.
They’ve spent a better part of Obama’s presidency, obstructing. More Republican obstruction here, and here. Blinded by a sense of entitlement, and unadulterated hate of Obama the Republicans have revealed their governing solution: to do nothing, to let the economy in which they collapsed in the first place, sit and fester and blame the failure on the Democrats, more specifically on Obama.
The modern Republican Party is incompetent and is often star of the Peter Principle, rising to the levels of power, and into positions its members are no longer competent in. For example, Republicans tend to be great political guerrillas, able to create simple dogmatic talking points, and the ability to pend their weaknesses on the Democrats, to win political office, but when they are called upon to govern responsibly, their incompetence is reached.
The philosophy of business first, and capitalism as the Coming of Christ, often results in a crash and burn cycle, however, Republicans are only able to rise from their political deaths like Lazarus without ever having to change their governing philosophy because of the corporate media, who pretends that they have something new to offer—i.e. tax cuts and deregulation, both tried for 8 years under George W. Bush’s watch, but as the Tea Party, a symbol of civil disobedience, they get a second bite at the apple of intransigence.
THE FINAL SOLUTION
Under the veneer of capitalism, debt and deficits, the Republican right wing cabal has found a way to nest their personalized hatred of Obama. The right wing political mercenaries have used the current economic crisis, again the one they’ve created, to destroy Obama using the most powerful arsenal in their toolbox. Race. The fear of a black man. And Obama, fully aware of such a stratagem, has hemmed himself in with his milquetoast compromises, not fully understanding that when you give a bully more, the more the bully takes. Obama’s handling of the historical levels of disrespect from the oppositional party has also caused his deflated base to abandon him because he doesn’t fight; he only compromises, which is his religion. Bi-partisanship is theology in D.C., but only for Democrats, for it is the document Republicans use in their death by a thousand paper cuts tactic, and while Obama bleeds out, they’ll refuse to compromise based on their principles. The corporate media muddy the waters of this political heist as “both sides” to show that they are being fair, but it's a lazy way the media raises itself above the fray, but they are responsible for empowering and allowing the wolves who ate the sheep, now dressed as the sheep, back onto family farm.
The Republican cabal has decided that Obama’s failures are their gain, which creates an easy political solution, do absolutely nothing to fix the economic, and political disparity in this country.
With a corporate media that is more interested in being political insiders than the Fourth Estate, a political party, the Republicans whose petulant intransigence further corrodes the gap between the haves and the have nots, and a president who is so afraid of being called an Angry Black Man, that he is willing to compromise away his integrity in the name of bi-partisanship, the mythical unicorn of D.C. politics, which only one party adheres to, where does this leaves us?
In a world of shit.
THE COLLATZ CONJECTURE
WHEN HATING OBAMA IS THE FINAL SOLUTION
by Malik Isasis
When the Tea Party howls at the moon the corporate media trip over themselves to smell their shit. The Tea Party is new, and shiny, a fresh branding of the Republican Party after 8 years of a Bush economy that sent the United States into a lost decade. Born out of the election of Barack Obama 2.7 years ago, right wing political mercenaries saw an opportunity to rewrite history, and the legacy of bad Republican economic policy by making every government deficit and problem since the founding of the country, Obama’s burden, alone.
THE ID
The Collatz Conjecture is an elementary mathematical equation that has yet to be solved. This is the predicament President Obama finds himself in politically, sandwiched between a rabid right, a milquetoast corporate media industrial complex, a disappointed base, and an unreasonable, almost pathological need to compromise with those who would rather ruin the country than give him any kind of political victory. Obama’s willingness to avoid fighting, to avoid the Angry Black Man label, has embolden the Republican Party, their supporters, and their politically mercenaries (Fox News, Talk Radio, conservative Think Tanks) to show an unprecedented amount of disrespect toward the office of the president daily—an almost personal ad hominem attacks, according to the New York Times.
Here is an example of the level of personal attacks:
The Bush legacy is not only the economic disaster, and a Middle East left on fire, but a Republican Party, which no longer respects rules and traditions of governance. Like George Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, truth no longer matters, only the religious fervor of their talking points. After eight years of watching George W. Bush use the federal government to make the largest transfer of wealth in human history from the public sphere to private sphere with wars, and unaccountable, non-bid contracts to corporations, the privatization of public schools, bank bailouts (which begun under Bush) and the military, his Republican Party adapted Bush’s and Cheney’s lizard brain way of governance, that is to say, to show contempt toward the people they govern and those who disagree with them.
Driven by the id, base emotion, Republicans are like the jealous boyfriend, if he can’t have you, no one can. They only hate the government when they are not in power. For a group that hates the federal government so much, the Republicans spend an average of 18 years in Congress, and of the longest serving Congress members, Republicans averaged 41 years—that’s a lot of time to serve at a job they hate, but go out of their way to have.
The Republican conservative cabal reminds me of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, whose obsession with the ring, drove him mad. Like Gollum, the Republicans’ minds are so consumed with getting the powers of the presidency, that they’ve become cartoonishly evil, histrionic, and abhorrently immature. They have achieved a level of political petulance haven’t seen in a long while.
They’ve spent a better part of Obama’s presidency, obstructing. More Republican obstruction here, and here. Blinded by a sense of entitlement, and unadulterated hate of Obama the Republicans have revealed their governing solution: to do nothing, to let the economy in which they collapsed in the first place, sit and fester and blame the failure on the Democrats, more specifically on Obama.
The modern Republican Party is incompetent and is often star of the Peter Principle, rising to the levels of power, and into positions its members are no longer competent in. For example, Republicans tend to be great political guerrillas, able to create simple dogmatic talking points, and the ability to pend their weaknesses on the Democrats, to win political office, but when they are called upon to govern responsibly, their incompetence is reached.
The philosophy of business first, and capitalism as the Coming of Christ, often results in a crash and burn cycle, however, Republicans are only able to rise from their political deaths like Lazarus without ever having to change their governing philosophy because of the corporate media, who pretends that they have something new to offer—i.e. tax cuts and deregulation, both tried for 8 years under George W. Bush’s watch, but as the Tea Party, a symbol of civil disobedience, they get a second bite at the apple of intransigence.
THE FINAL SOLUTION
Under the veneer of capitalism, debt and deficits, the Republican right wing cabal has found a way to nest their personalized hatred of Obama. The right wing political mercenaries have used the current economic crisis, again the one they’ve created, to destroy Obama using the most powerful arsenal in their toolbox. Race. The fear of a black man. And Obama, fully aware of such a stratagem, has hemmed himself in with his milquetoast compromises, not fully understanding that when you give a bully more, the more the bully takes. Obama’s handling of the historical levels of disrespect from the oppositional party has also caused his deflated base to abandon him because he doesn’t fight; he only compromises, which is his religion. Bi-partisanship is theology in D.C., but only for Democrats, for it is the document Republicans use in their death by a thousand paper cuts tactic, and while Obama bleeds out, they’ll refuse to compromise based on their principles. The corporate media muddy the waters of this political heist as “both sides” to show that they are being fair, but it's a lazy way the media raises itself above the fray, but they are responsible for empowering and allowing the wolves who ate the sheep, now dressed as the sheep, back onto family farm.
The Republican cabal has decided that Obama’s failures are their gain, which creates an easy political solution, do absolutely nothing to fix the economic, and political disparity in this country.
With a corporate media that is more interested in being political insiders than the Fourth Estate, a political party, the Republicans whose petulant intransigence further corrodes the gap between the haves and the have nots, and a president who is so afraid of being called an Angry Black Man, that he is willing to compromise away his integrity in the name of bi-partisanship, the mythical unicorn of D.C. politics, which only one party adheres to, where does this leaves us?
In a world of shit.
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