Monday, November 21, 2016
Obama or O Bomb-a?
Largely I have been supportive of our current president. He inherited a mess. His biggest achievements have been the execution of Osama Bin Laden and the passing of the Affordable Care Act. When President Obama leaves office in January the shit will hit the fan. Perhaps that is a good thing. I didn't vote for Gump, but I am enjoying the highbrow news coverage of our new ruling dynasty. Dynasty. I respect Barack Obama, but I am glad his tenure as the American president is over. When I reflect upon the last eight years, several things have become known to me. One is the state of the arts and public education have deteriorated more. Popular music in American never has been at such a low point. A small-statured Muslim black man is a departure from traditional presidential figures. The country chose him, and we have what we have. We have an escalating national debt, we have crumbling infrastructure, we have neglected public education, and the arts all but have vanished from American consciousness. Hitler didn't like jazz. Stalin spawned the Russian Five. Indeed President Obama has spurned a newly surfacing type of American nationalism. Is this a bad thing? Is it bad that some type of common sentiment in Americans is being expressed publicly? Militia groups never have been out of the picture. They went underground. I am not being lucid in my opinion. Perhaps it is because I do not have one yet. Perhaps a small-statured Muslim black man increased racism in America. I think, judging from what I have observed since Gump's election, that a lot of Americans didn't really like Obama. Certainly he was a stretch for the black community. Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle said it on SNL. President Obama was not really a down-to-earth brother. We don't know his tastes in art, if he has them. The arts were not championed during his tenure as president, but there were other fish to fry. While our military is out fighting the Bush family's war, America has crumbled into a state of bleeding heart liberalism. No longer is achievement heralded. No longer is invention merited. Instead hyperbole has been embraced by the media for notoriety leaving us with a neutered cast of Greek gods and goddesses flailing in their own discontentment. This has become America, the entitlement of the mediocre. We have mediocre actors, mediocre celebrities, mediocre news anchors, and mediocre musicians. Like how Gump won the presidency, hyperbole has become reality leaving America a desperate and weak nation. Putin sees it as does Iran. Maybe it is a great thing that Donald will be wielding America's gavel.