E Pluribus Unum … Obama’s Epitaph, OR OURS

It’s not just Barack Obama whose literally petty personal needs compel a strategy of dividing one people, one group, one strata against another in a great game of ‘THEY’RE EUCHRING YOU, DON’T STAND FOR IT, LET’S GET IN THEIR FACES’

Karl Rove was best known for finding a panoply of wedge issues which when totaled equaled electoral college victories.

The need to separate groups is old, and we can look right back to Ted Kennedy’s personal assassination of Robert Bork on the basis of his supposed disinclination towards equal justice for the female and black groups.

Despite the ugliness we saw before, and the science Rove made of it, Obama and those who support his ideals have now made this a DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC.

Peggy Noonan:

What was the glue? A love of country based on a shared knowledge of how and why it began; a broad feeling among our citizens that there was something providential in our beginnings; a gratitude that left us with a sense that we should comport ourselves in a way unlike the other nations of the world, that more was expected of us, and not unjustly—”To whom much is given much is expected”; a general understanding that we were something new in history, a nation founded on ideals and aspirations—liberty, equality—and not mere grunting tribal wants. We were from Europe but would not be European: No formal class structure here, no limits, from the time you touched ground all roads would lead forward. You would be treated not as your father was but as you deserved. That’s from “The Killer Angels,” a historical novel about the civil war fought to right a wrong the Founders didn’t right. We did in time, and at great cost. What a country.

But there is a broad fear out there that we are coming apart, or rather living through the moment we’ll look back on as the beginning of the Great Coming Apart. Economic crisis, cultural stresses: “Half the country isn’t speaking to the other half,” a moderate Democrat said the other day. She was referring to liberals of her acquaintance who know little of the South and who don’t wish to know of it, who write it off as apart from them, maybe beneath them.

Right now those who have been preached to as euchred are being urged to greater centrifugal actions. They have no clear goal except a vague notion that America is wrong, that if you are Latino, Black, Asian, Bokononist, South Asian, Omani, or whatever, YOU ARE THE VICTIM of a system you have no chance and no stake in. Their motto might be:

out of many, you get screwed

The gain of these groups is the loss of America, and their success will breed the age of a new wolf which ensures abnegation of success, property, ingenuity, and self satisfaction becomes the prime achievement. Those who pop their heads up out of out this Rx for human misery will be culled by these new wolves of the unselfish society as criminals. Those who achieve profit, and see it as honorable are already viewed with only the deepest suspicion is a society already having a difficult time differentiating between profit and greed.

We have made oversight mistakes GALORE in guarding with laws against financial products whose sale and manipulations have destroyed much, but these are all the fault of elected officials, and those they have appointed (SEC) whose LACK of cynicism about human nature simply did not measure up to those of the founders, or even of FDR and Morgenthau.

But we can now observe that those in this so called ‘occupy’ lupine crowd AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM who see the well-to-do drive by in limousines or living in fine houses are sliding away from saying, ‘one day I will figure a way to get to that level’ and slouching instead towards rocking the cars, bringing down the houses and pulling the occupants out for a new age Place de Concorde.