What do we do about the Obamagate scandal? It is becoming clear that the Obama administration orchestrated surveillance of the Trump campaign, maybe directed from the very top, i.e., from President Obama himself.
There are all kinds of flags indicating this, including the fact that President Obama seems to have had a personal animus against LTG Michael Flynn. Because Flynn was a danger to shipping in the "intelligence community," because he wanted to reform the Defense Intelligence Agency. Apparently Obama personally recommended to Trump more than once that he not bring Flynn into the Trump administration.
But what to do? Because you and I know that we are only days away from the accusation that the people accusing President Obama of orchestrating the whole Trump Russia Collusion caper are racists.
Anyone accusing President Obama of anything is accused of being a racist.
It's getting to the point that I am going to refuse to vote for any African American ever. Because you are not allowed to criticize African Americans. Because racism.
Oh wait. No problem voting for black Republicans! Because there is no special privilege for them.
Now we have the tragic killing of a black "jogger" in Brunswick, Georgia, with the media going full Trayvon Martin. Again.
Did you notice that the Trayvon Martin incident occurred in February 2012, a presidential election year. And did you know that the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, occurred in August 2014 at election time?
Hmm. Do you think perhaps that Democrats need to get their African American supporters wound up into a frenzy of fear every election year, in order to get them out to vote?
Look, I get it. The African America community is a vital part of the Democratic coalition, and the most pro-Democrat, with 90 percent voting Democrat. Any falloff in black voting means curtains for Democratic politicians.
I also know that the way you keep small minorities unified is by the external enemy and the cult of innocence. That's how the Jews do it. I do not say this out of animus; it just occurred to me one day. If you are a small minority you are always at risk from the larger community if it needs a scapegoat. So you have to maintain your unity at all costs. And the way you do it is with a culture of innocence.
And scapegoating, from René Girard and others, is just the way that a human community restores unity after a divisive rupture. Nothing personal, you understand!
Indeed, Hitler's use of anti-semitism to unite the Germans is merely a textbook case of how to unite a people divided and demoralized after defeat in war.
But the flip side of the scapegoat game is the culture of innocence, the idea that "we" are the helpless innocents harassed and harried by all kinds of vicious enemies. It is just as natural and physical as the culture of scapegoating.
That is the point of stuff like Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes. It is to call attention to the fact that there is a whole lot going on in the human unconscious that is not necessarily apparent at the conscious level.
Of course there is. "Consciousness" is clearly a recent development in humans. Yet, clearly, mammals of all kinds, including our simian friends, are social animals that do things that promote pro-social behavior. And we are just jumped-up apes. How do they do it? With behaviors progammed into their brains. Archetypes.
Obviously politicians and leaders of all kinds need to activate various unconscious archetypes in their followers and constituents. Of course they do. For one thing, it is very difficult to get a consensus in human affairs by logical and rational discussion. In fact, I would say it is almost impossible. Instead, the politician and the leader, whether corporate or military, finds that the only way to lead is by activating unconscious drives like loyalty, courage, innocence, hate. Again, nothing personal; that's just the way things are.
But obviously when the activation of archetypes develops to the point that, e.g., the racial killing of a black in election year gets boosted up into the stratosphere, then we have a problem. Did you know that that there were about 500 black-on-white killings a year in 2015 and about 230 white-on-black killings? These represent about 12 percent of the 6,000 homicides for which "police had information about the race of both victim and killer."
Now I don't know what that means. Because to have an opinion on such a matter would be racist.
But I would say, to both liberal journalists and the black community, that maybe it is time to turn off the race argument. Because I'd say that we are getting close to the point where you chaps will do yourself an injury when you play the race card.
But I don't expect that you will stop it. Not until it hits you in the face.
Meanwhile, it looks like Obamagate is the worst political scandal in US history. And why? Because Obama and his underlings reckoned that Obama got a pass not just because he was a Democrat but because race. So they could afford to do illegal things without penalty.
But don't accuse President Obama. That would be racist.
There are all kinds of flags indicating this, including the fact that President Obama seems to have had a personal animus against LTG Michael Flynn. Because Flynn was a danger to shipping in the "intelligence community," because he wanted to reform the Defense Intelligence Agency. Apparently Obama personally recommended to Trump more than once that he not bring Flynn into the Trump administration.
But what to do? Because you and I know that we are only days away from the accusation that the people accusing President Obama of orchestrating the whole Trump Russia Collusion caper are racists.
Anyone accusing President Obama of anything is accused of being a racist.
It's getting to the point that I am going to refuse to vote for any African American ever. Because you are not allowed to criticize African Americans. Because racism.
Oh wait. No problem voting for black Republicans! Because there is no special privilege for them.
Now we have the tragic killing of a black "jogger" in Brunswick, Georgia, with the media going full Trayvon Martin. Again.
Did you notice that the Trayvon Martin incident occurred in February 2012, a presidential election year. And did you know that the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, occurred in August 2014 at election time?
Hmm. Do you think perhaps that Democrats need to get their African American supporters wound up into a frenzy of fear every election year, in order to get them out to vote?
Look, I get it. The African America community is a vital part of the Democratic coalition, and the most pro-Democrat, with 90 percent voting Democrat. Any falloff in black voting means curtains for Democratic politicians.
I also know that the way you keep small minorities unified is by the external enemy and the cult of innocence. That's how the Jews do it. I do not say this out of animus; it just occurred to me one day. If you are a small minority you are always at risk from the larger community if it needs a scapegoat. So you have to maintain your unity at all costs. And the way you do it is with a culture of innocence.
And scapegoating, from René Girard and others, is just the way that a human community restores unity after a divisive rupture. Nothing personal, you understand!
Indeed, Hitler's use of anti-semitism to unite the Germans is merely a textbook case of how to unite a people divided and demoralized after defeat in war.
But the flip side of the scapegoat game is the culture of innocence, the idea that "we" are the helpless innocents harassed and harried by all kinds of vicious enemies. It is just as natural and physical as the culture of scapegoating.
That is the point of stuff like Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes. It is to call attention to the fact that there is a whole lot going on in the human unconscious that is not necessarily apparent at the conscious level.
Of course there is. "Consciousness" is clearly a recent development in humans. Yet, clearly, mammals of all kinds, including our simian friends, are social animals that do things that promote pro-social behavior. And we are just jumped-up apes. How do they do it? With behaviors progammed into their brains. Archetypes.
Obviously politicians and leaders of all kinds need to activate various unconscious archetypes in their followers and constituents. Of course they do. For one thing, it is very difficult to get a consensus in human affairs by logical and rational discussion. In fact, I would say it is almost impossible. Instead, the politician and the leader, whether corporate or military, finds that the only way to lead is by activating unconscious drives like loyalty, courage, innocence, hate. Again, nothing personal; that's just the way things are.
But obviously when the activation of archetypes develops to the point that, e.g., the racial killing of a black in election year gets boosted up into the stratosphere, then we have a problem. Did you know that that there were about 500 black-on-white killings a year in 2015 and about 230 white-on-black killings? These represent about 12 percent of the 6,000 homicides for which "police had information about the race of both victim and killer."
Now I don't know what that means. Because to have an opinion on such a matter would be racist.
But I would say, to both liberal journalists and the black community, that maybe it is time to turn off the race argument. Because I'd say that we are getting close to the point where you chaps will do yourself an injury when you play the race card.
But I don't expect that you will stop it. Not until it hits you in the face.
Meanwhile, it looks like Obamagate is the worst political scandal in US history. And why? Because Obama and his underlings reckoned that Obama got a pass not just because he was a Democrat but because race. So they could afford to do illegal things without penalty.
But don't accuse President Obama. That would be racist.
If you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, might as well go ahead.
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