Barack Obama Too Far Center?
“I like Obama, but I don’t agree with everything he does.”
This phrase seems to have become the greeting call of the Left. Now more than a year into the Obama administration, it is blatantly obvious that Barack Obama sits much more Center than our current environment of political polarity was prepared for.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Is it possible, that as a people, we have been drifting too far from the common goal and the betterment of our peoples as a whole?
What is your take on our current President seemingly finding himself in a position of being unable to please neither the right nor the left?
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Hard-to-please followers (The Washington Post)
Unlike pleasing the right or the left, being unable to do so at least leaves open the possibility of doing something intelligent.
A President should not be concerned with who he holds political favor with at anytime. There job is to be the Chief policy maker no matter what there political persuasion happens to be at that moment. As for intelligence that is one word that should be an oxymoron when applied to any political body.
Shoulds & oughtas like laws and principles are no match for human nature. If they aren’t strategically aligned with it to begin with, it just blows right through them as if they weren’t even there. Even when they’re reinforced, if they run crossgrain to human nature then given time it carves a channel right through ‘em.
The President cannot operate independently, no matter what shoulds our principles call for. At least, it would take the extremely rare convergence of an extraordinary set of circumstances with a human being of exceptional qualities. A lot of time and energy can be wasted agitating for a hero or a savior, the “right man for our times”, to lead us to a better place. But we as individuals may not need a better place if we’re enriching instead of deplete the one we’ve got. And if we’re not focused on that, how and on what basis would we recognize such a person to begin with?
“Illuminating realization number one: You are the only light there is for yourself, my friend.” -Gogol Bordello
Once that has been accepted, we can partner up in meaningful ways with others who supply their own light.
Tangentially, the laws and principles that govern a civil society may not govern an uncivil one. And due to unintended consequences, the very same laws that govern that civil society may also be instrumental in producing an uncivil one. It’s a process that may as well be termed societal desertification, where goodwill is treated as a resource and overutilized.
At the base, this is a society that, if it is to become whole, needs enough uniform downward pressure to cause its own internal heat to fuse its fragmented segments. But where the downward pressure is itself fragmented, the turbulent black tea will well up through the fissures and in some places it will release its heat and solidify there, producing strange and tortured extrusions that exacerbate the discontinuities of the upper strata, setting new precedents and standards to use as reference points in future shoulds, oughtas, laws and principles.