Discerning our divisions

A year ago I posted in an effort to explain the public narrative of the roots of division in America. You might want to first go back and read that analysis -- "the great divide" -- before continuing below. The spate of Rittenhouse post-trial hindsight, lies and false narratives following the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal last week prompts me to review and reflect upon the roots of the divisions in our political discourse.

The first, false notion to put to rest is that Donald Trump was the person who divided America. This is grotesquely untrue and a reflection of the false memes that today media and popular culture prefer to cultivate. Look to the Pew Center research and it is painfully obvious that the most significant fracture on political discourse came courtesy of the false prophet, the disingenuous genius who under the guise of uniting America did his best to split America into tribes, and that person is Barack Obama.

Our former president took an opportunity and the first self-identified African-American president to divide the country. First note that it is politically incorrect if not grossly unacceptable to acknowledge that Obama chose to be African-American )while his mother was white) that he originally presented himself in his public relations for his first book that he was born in Africa. The truth of the matter is that the American political division increased sharply during Obama's eight years because he chose to point out and exacerbate the things that divide America rather than do anything to bring people from both sides of the aisle together.

Obama legitimized spurious terms and concepts such as white privilege, systematic racism, make the rich pay their 'fair share' of taxes, "you didn't build that," and the need to 'spread the wealth around,' while pretending to be ethical and transparent while repeating one of the most expensive, destructive lies in American politics, speaking of healthcare, "If you like your plan you can keep it." The technical guru behind Obamacare regularly described the need to be non-transparent and deceptive about the plan, the tax disguised as a fine, and the stupidity of the American voter, in his efforts to provide cover for Obama's blatant deception. Nancy Pelosi's stupid and assertion that "You have to pass the bill to see what's in it," proved to be part of the big lie behind Obamacare, along with the hidden and differed costs of the program, designed primarily to make Americans so confused and angry about healthcare that the progressives could use this as an excuse to slide Americans into "universal, single-payer" healthcare. An open market for competitive medical insurance plans coupled with personal medical care insurance vouchers would have been a more universal solution that Obamacare could even claim to be.

Donald Trump was the product of this division. As much as people despised Hillary Clinton and appreciated Donald Trump (back in 2016), the 2016 presidential election as even more a product of the unhappiness with the direction Obama and Clinton proposed to take America. Mix in Trump's celebrity charm with Hillary's high 'unlikabileness' and meanness factors and you have a formula for a wholly unexpected revolution in and rejection of Democrat leadership. Then the remnants of the Democrats spent several years trying to deny the Trump win in manners worse than anything Trump did after the 2020 election fiasco. All of this fueled the burning divisions in American life, and the Dems embraced Obama's identity politics as a way of promoting minority 'rights' as an expression of the tyranny of the minority, where positive rights to government goodies superseded negative rights obligations of the government to protect natural and constitutional rights related to speech, religion, and bearing arms. Instead of a system where the majority wins and protects the rights of the minority, we now have a system where the minority has the right to naysay the majority and to reject the rights of the majority.

Further, Obama embraced the nonsensical concept of "consensus science" while declining to pursue a national consensus on just about anything, even circumventing the traditional, legitimate legislative process with numerous executive orders, reinforcing the tyranny of the minority with the tyranny of executive orders.