Reconstruction Era II

At the end of the American Civil War, a group in Congress calling themselves the Radical Republicans sought to punish the members of the Confederacy for trying to maintain a system of slavery. Put another way, they sought the radical transformation of the Southern United States. According to historian Eric Foner, "What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and that for blacks its failure was a disaster whose magnitude cannot be obscured by the genuine accomplishments that did endure." I would argue that we are now in the throes of a second Reconstruction Era (Reconstruction Era II, if you will), and that the magnitude of this disaster may be far greater, the attendant corruption will be unparalleled in our history, and the civil unrest that will come about as a result of the unmasking of the ineptitude of the Obama administration may be our darkest hour.

The first thing that you have to understand is that Barack Hussein Obama is ignorant. That is not to say that he lacks intelligence. He is good at making speeches. He learned those skills from Marshall Ganz. Ganz has supplied him with some of his most important scripts. Away from the script, Obama begins to fail as a speaker. That is his public face. As a President, Obama does very little.

He is also adept at finding work for his close friends … a power that he often shares with his wife (in their down-low marriage). The main bulk of his White House apparatus is chosen by those who put him in power. In the parlance of the packaged cake mix industry, he is allowed, from time to time, to break an egg and add it to the mixture. Beyond that, Obama is out of the loop most of the time.

An organization has settled in around Obama to make the decisions regarding the role of government. For the most part they are the people who have always been in Washington DC, worming their way up through the system to bring about a socialist state. Those people have always taken their instructions from outside the government.

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new T-shirt! … ‘when poop is out of the loop’.

(The back side of the T-shirt would have Obama’s face on it) [Graffiti Forensics] [p]

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Pssst: Just want to let you know. The country isn’t really divided between Obama supporters vs. haters. There’s just people and they’re angry, and becoming active. My guess is we’ll see a new era form within the 2 presidential elections, as more young vote and old die. People like you who don’t see it are going to be crushed under the massive independent movements that are forming all around. …It has to happen. Politics isn’t all that’s wrong, it’s in fact a symptom. The real problem is the social architecture that we’ve all been living under, and it is cracking, and now that we’re all online and interconnected, with open-source movements making everything from knowledge to software available to all, this whole structure is doomed to collapse and become something new. …you cannot stop it. [snaefridur] [p]

This is a point that is being offered up by someone who has been on this planet for a quarter of a century. It is easy for someone of that age to believe that they are a part of something "NEW", and that the old ways are dying out. We all believed that when we were 25. He has been a witness to many marvelous technological changes. What someone of that age cannot see is that people all around him are getting older. Fewer "young people" see any point in voting, and those who do vote easily fall victim to the skilled liars in politics. Those young people who vote are continually aging.

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ize: medium;”>Perhaps he can see trends such as the consolidation of retail strength in the hands of a few such as Amazon.com and Wal-Mart. Can he see that advertising revenues will increasingly flow to Google, and along with it the power to influence elections? Does he know that some of us may be old, but will not be dying off as soon as he thinks? In their final 30 years of life, those who are now 70 year old will suck up massive amounts of medical services for which he, as a young person, will bear the costs. Then there are major plaques coming for which [snaefridur] will likely have no immunity. Of course, there will be considerable racial tension soon to be visited upon our streets. Will he be able to defend himself against these troubles?.

In the end, he will find that the world is not so different than it has been in past.