THE BACKLASH AGAINST THE BACKLASH

In 2008 Barack Hussein Obama was elect­ed the 44^th President of the United States. This was a momen­tous occa­sion when viewed against the racial tumult which had char­ac­ter­ized the American exis­tence for over two hun­dred years.

The coun­try had evolved through slav­ery, a civ­il war, recon­struc­tion, Jim Crowe, a pro­longed and elon­gat­ed civ­il rights strug­gle which con­tin­ues to this very day and will con­tin­ue into the fore­see­able future.

Many peo­ple thought that Obama’s elec­tion to the nation’s high­est exec­u­tive office ush­ered in a new wave of post racial vibe,

Gone were the days, they thought, when race was not a deter­mi­nant in how peo­ple were judged, but going for­ward all peo­ple would be judged based on the con­tent of their character.

Naïve, ide­al­is­tic, sil­ly ?Maybe but being a lit­tle sil­ly, ide­al­is­tic, or naïve is some­times ok. What many Americans and admir­ers of America, around the world did not bar­gain for was the back­lash from the Republican Right to the elec­tion of the first pres­i­dent that was not a white Anglo-Saxon male.

The Republican Party were ter­ri­fied, white men decid­ed what they saw did not hap­pen, the black fam­i­ly in the White House were not real­ly there, he wasn’t real­ly the president.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, quote; He’s not a real president.

Former Bush 42^nd aide and New Hampshire Governor John Sununu , I wish he would learn how to be a real America.

That mad­den­ing dis­be­lief cre­at­ed a par­al­lel uni­verse for the right-wing with­in the grand out­dat­ed par­ty, the GOP.

The nation saw the rise of the T‑Party, a group dis­guised as a gen­uine grass-roots orga­ni­za­tion, con­cerned about deficits, and tax­es, but when the thin veneer is peeled away was revealed to be a front group fund­ed by filthy rich Industrialists hell-bent on buy­ing this democracy.

We saw a crass and boor­ish brand of dis­re­spect direct­ed at the pres­i­dent of the United States, nev­er before seen in the his­to­ry of this repub­lic, if American his­to­ry is any­thing to go by.

We saw a new­ly mint­ed Supreme Court Justice mouth “not true” while shak­ing his head to a 100 per­cent fac­tu­al state­ment giv­en by the pres­i­dent at a state of the Union address.

We saw an uncouth, uncul­tured, imper­ti­nent con­gress-man from South Carolina yell “you lie” at the pres­i­dent in the very same body.

We saw a big­ot­ed bor­der state Governor wag her scrag­gly grub­by fin­gers in the face of the pres­i­dent on a tar­mac in the show me your paper state of Arizona.

We saw an entire Television net­work ded­i­cat­ed exclu­sive­ly to dis­tort­ing facts and dem­a­goguery of the pres­i­dent. These were just a few, nev­er mind the oth­er low-lives, like that reporter from that right-wing web­site, the dai­ly caller, who inter­rupt­ed the pres­i­dent in the rose gar­den while he was still speak­ing, a 180 degree turn from estab­lished protocol.

Every right-wing troll crawled out from under their rock to attack Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Dick Morris, Carl Rove, Sarah Palin, John Sununu, and every nar­cis­sis­tic delin­quent who had a voice, made their big­ot­ed fears known.

Last night after the pres­i­dent was re-elect­ed, with fright­en­ing accu­ra­cy, FOX news com­men­ta­tor Bill O’riely had a come to Jesus moment, he accept­ed what I have been say­ing for some time now, of course he added some 1950 ‘s relish.

O’Reilly final­ly assert­ed quote: “So white peo­ple are now the minor­i­ty, so Hispanics are going to vote for the pres­i­dent, African-Americans are going to vote for the pres­i­dent, women prob­a­bly are going to vote for him, there are always going to be peo­ple who believe they are enti­tled to things” 

This was a rehash of Romney’s 47 per­cent tirade, look how well that’s served him, I can’t recall ever hear­ing of a Mrs Bill O’Reilly , but if she does exist I won­der how enti­tled she feel right now with such a Neanderthal rel­ic for a spouse?

The dan­ger with the par­al­lel Universe of the Right , caused them to lose sight of real­i­ty, that they did not see the colos­sal defeat star­ing them in the face. For the last 4 years they told them­selves Barack Obama was not the president.

The unem­ploy­ment num­bers were legit­i­mate when they looked bad, they used those to pom­mel the pres­i­dent, as soon as they start­ed turn­ing around, start­ed to look bet­ter, they claimed the Bureau of Labor manip­u­lat­ed the num­bers to help Obama.

Never mind that if the pres­i­dent was going to manip­u­late the unem­ploy­ment num­bers, why not make them 2 per­cent unem­ploy­ment, why not go for broke?

When it seemed that job growth was going to be a con­stant phe­nom­e­non under Obama they went to split­ting hairs, argu­ing all kinds of met­rics which made the unem­ploy­ment num­bers much more that what the month­ly BOL aggre­gate sug­gest­ed. There was nev­er any ques­tion of the num­bers from the right when Bush was bleed­ing jobs at a rate of 400 thou­sand per month.

Every met­ric which favored the pres­i­dent was rub­bished; every indi­ca­tor which showed him in a bad light was can­on­ized. Every mod­er­ate repub­li­can who even showed an inkling of rev­er­ence or def­er­ence to the pres­i­dent was run out of the par­ty, Dick Lugar, Olympia Snowe, Charlie Crist, and of late the cir­cu­lar fir­ing squad around Chris Christie.

The poll num­bers which indi­cat­ed the pres­i­dent was lead­ing by a slim mar­gin of 1 – 2 per­cent­age points were all demo­nized, and every sin­gle poll­ster labeled a tool of the lib­er­al left. The lunatic Right placed them­selves in an echo cham­ber this pre­vent­ed them from hear­ing what the rest of the coun­try was hear­ing, the warn­ing signs were clear, the coun­try was not going to fire the pres­i­dent. Conversely what seemed clear was that their can­di­date’s six-year dou­ble run life­long lust was about to end in a pile of ashes.

I must say the pile of ash­es char­ac­ter­i­za­tion was my own per­son­al wish for Romney, I deserve this lit­tle bit of deca­dence, I wished and hoped and prayed that the results we had would be the result we have.

The retard­ed right, missed the entire­ty of what was hap­pen­ing in the coun­try, they blast­ed the media for report­ing facts and point­ing to dis­tor­tions, they cocooned them­selves into the echo cham­ber of FOX, the media arm that spews the garbage they believe, and right-wing talk-radio, run pret­ty much by trail­er trash red neck igno­ra­mus­es, this pre­vent­ed them from ever breath­ing or assim­i­lat­ing any real facts. They were how­ev­er con­tent to breathe the stale putrid air of right-wing Obama derange­ment, that proved to be their undoing.

Even though defeat was fac­ing them in the face, they had turn-coat, Dick Morris on live tele­vi­sion telling them that from his pro­fes­sion­al analy­sis, Mitt Romney was going to win in a land slide. They had Carl Rove insist­ing that Romney would indeed win, even when defeat was immi­nent, they insist­ed they had data that showed they were ahead.

After oth­er net­works had called the elec­tion for te pres­i­dent, FOX the repub­li­can flat earth, cli­mate change deniers, insist­ed they had data show­ing some­thing no one else was seeing.

When the state of Colorado was called after Ohio was already called for the pres­i­dent, Mitt Romney was not allowed to con­cede, because some­how, delu­sion­al repub­li­cans thought what was hap­pen­ing in front of their own eyes, was not hap­pen­ing , or sim­ply had not hap­pened. At that stage even if Romney was giv­en the state of Ohio and every oth­er state yet unde­clared he would still have fall­en short of the required 270 elec­toral vote he need­ed , which would have made him the 45^th pres­i­dent of the United States.

So we are at the point where ratio­nal peo­ple have to ask them­selves at this point in our his­to­ry, “where will the repub­li­can par­ty go? There are sim­ply not enough old white guys left to win nation­al elec­tions. The Civil war has been over for a while now ‚yet the repub­li­can par­ty seem hell-bent to take the coun­try back, (back, mean­ing tak­ing it away from the black guy). But back also have a deep­er mean­ing, a deep­er back to a peri­od in the 50’s and 60’s when white men ruled everything.

Obama on the oth­er hand, has said sim­ply ” we have come too far and we are not going back” so “Forward”»»»>

On November 6^th 2012, hate was repu­di­at­ed round­ly in America, after the prog­nos­ti­ca­tors were done doing what they do, the elec­torate spoke and spoke it did.

The elec­torate said, “we want Barack Obama to be our pres­i­dent, we will not allow you to take away our right to vote and we will not allow women to be treat­ed as state property.

There seem to be a sense of tone-deaf­ness on the part of many with­in that out­dat­ed par­ty, star­ing with the old cur­mud­geon Mitch McConnell, the sen­a­tor from Kentucky,.

The vot­ers who now make up the major­i­ty of the vot­ing coali­tion Obama has put togeth­er over the last few years, has final­ly exact­ed a back­lash, against the white back­lash, against Obama the black president.

People over money.