America's line of presidential White House sitters has sometimes been "presidential" and in more recent time less so. Nobody's perfect. Obama has done some great things (health care and prison reform) and some dumb things (foreign war policy). Obama is, however, not vile as many of the current contenders are.
For pure shock value, contrast Dwight Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson II's respectful sense of state to the current mouthpieces of swill fancying themselves "leaders."
America increasingly polarizes around sacrificial-goat issues like Benghazi, Marijuana, "duh" states turning off their own Medicaid (Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia), and further manufacturing real crises out of their own emotional bilge. That bilge continues like mold to invade those sociopaths with money to spend and microphones.
We see grown men and women threatening their own country's citizens with "shutting down the government," which is their euphemism for their intent to cripple America.
Domestic terrorism never had it so front and in your face as the current crop of fundamentally twisted politicians. They push their modus operandi like the thugs of popular "culture."
The thug's way to get ahead in the polls, garner pats on the back from religious flounderingmentalists, self-named tea party people, or faux news media is to strike a pose: one of staggering stupidity like Ben Carson's blurt that "Obamacare is the worst thing that happened to America since slavery." If he cared about African Americans, (though I suspect Ben Carson is really white like Trump, wearing black-face), he'd support healthcare for those struggling to stay alive in our current economy and would be supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement instead of denigrating it as "sick."
Pats on the back, however, from masses of the under-educated and the unenlightened accompanied with smug comments on faux news is inflating Mr Carson up the polls. He joins previous image inflationists, Donald Trump and George W Bush. The former with his often heard blurt on the character of Mexicans, and the latter with his well-documented shell-game tricking not only the American people, but also the easy-to-trick Congress of the United States with his and his accomplice's assertions that Iraq should be invaded because "they have weapons of mass destruction." Special thanks to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
You know that game. The throne of power historically sought mostly by war-mongers, is no longer a throne, it's become a twisted variant of power, the Thrown of Power (TOP). The real weapons of mass destruction are the unqualified, under-qualified, and unenlightened pretenders to the Thrown Of Power.
The George Orwell Newspeak-named "Citizens United" continues as THE nuclear weapon favored, coddled, and paid for by the eminence grise masquerading as Americans when they are actually domestic terrorists making ISIS and the Taliban look like grade-school wanna-be's for the mouthpieces of the Huckabee's and the Koch Brothers infiltrating America in spirit, in fact, and in money.
Doctors used to call that cancer. Today is called the GOP, rhymes with TOP.
Ben Carson continues polishing his mental lack with recent comments on the Big Bang, "God told us how it happened, we don't need fancy [translate: science] theories." He couples this with his savvy sense of garnering more pats on the back from what I increasingly must call the New Ignorgentsia.
The TOPs, supported by the Ignorgentsia are doing the real work of ISIS and Taliban intends here in America, and they're doing it for nothing more than their power greed. The GOP and the TOP are ISIS and Taliban answers to their Allah prayers. The TOPs are the ones who generally, though not always, seize the White House and Supreme Court either directly or indirectly and cripple Americans with blows to the knees of citizens. Those "qualified" for the job know how to garner the vote and the money of the great hysterical masses and they are effective at it.
Therefore there's actual possibility this immitation black man could sit in the White house. He has so much in common with dumb white flounderingmentalists. Ben Carson is "qualified" in this frightening over the TOP way. The GOP must be elated with power expectation.
