You can't be serious. That is perhaps what conservatives feel as each new Obama era folly hits the headlines.
This week we saw Democrats in the House claiming that the Republican pursuit of Lois Lerner was McCarthyism.
We heard of the Dallas office of the IRS brimming with pro-Obama election fever.
We saw liberal students and faculty getting Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born woman who has risen from tribalism to an icon of freedom, uninvited as Commencement speaker at Brandeis.
We saw the Obama administration ginning up their female base with yet another equal pay act.
We saw dear old baseball legend Hank Aaron linking Obama critics to the KKK.
Yeah, I know. Marx told us that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
But I wonder if there is a deeper truth there. Beyond the idea that a movement begins as a cause, then becomes a business, and finally becomes a racket, I suggest that the final phase of any human endeavor is to become the butt of jokes.
And why is that? It is because any human institution eventually gets inherited by fools, and fools are too stupid to realize they are running the place into the ground. And so their clumsy pretense at wisdom and cunning becomes the butt of jokes.
And one day it all goes up in smoke.
Yeah, I know. We Obama haters are desperate for a divination from the heavens that indicates that our prayers for a life after Obama will be answered.
But somehow, I have a feeling that the next 30 months leading up to the 2014 midterm and the 2016 presidential election will see a meltdown seldom seen before in US politics.
This week we saw Democrats in the House claiming that the Republican pursuit of Lois Lerner was McCarthyism.
We heard of the Dallas office of the IRS brimming with pro-Obama election fever.
We saw liberal students and faculty getting Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born woman who has risen from tribalism to an icon of freedom, uninvited as Commencement speaker at Brandeis.
We saw the Obama administration ginning up their female base with yet another equal pay act.
We saw dear old baseball legend Hank Aaron linking Obama critics to the KKK.
Yeah, I know. Marx told us that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
But I wonder if there is a deeper truth there. Beyond the idea that a movement begins as a cause, then becomes a business, and finally becomes a racket, I suggest that the final phase of any human endeavor is to become the butt of jokes.
And why is that? It is because any human institution eventually gets inherited by fools, and fools are too stupid to realize they are running the place into the ground. And so their clumsy pretense at wisdom and cunning becomes the butt of jokes.
And one day it all goes up in smoke.
Yeah, I know. We Obama haters are desperate for a divination from the heavens that indicates that our prayers for a life after Obama will be answered.
But somehow, I have a feeling that the next 30 months leading up to the 2014 midterm and the 2016 presidential election will see a meltdown seldom seen before in US politics.
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