The
news has been so bad, for so long, that it's hard for an optimistic
fatalist like me to find any good in it. One possible silver lining
for the cloud that has been raining on us occurred to me today.
Presidential
politics is not only studied on a day-to-day basis, it is also
studied carefully beneath the microscope of history. Mr. Trump will
be generating an awful lot of study, for an awfully long time. People
across the political spectrum are already quick to compare him to
other men who have held the position. One fascinating area of study
will be the reasons that a persistent minority of American voters
place Mr. Trump at the very top of the list of presidents, while the
majority of the people are more likely to place him very near the
bottom. Oh, excuse me, the silver lining. I digress at the drop of a
hat.
When
one considers the last three presidents, the three presidents so far
in our young 21st Century, one thing jumps right out. The
president in the middle was black. There it is! Right in the photos!
We've
had George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Bush destroyed
the world's economy and started several wasteful and destructive
wars, and Trump has been rushing pell-mell to destroy the entire
fabric of American life, social, political, and economic, since the
day that he was declared the winner of the election of 2016. Both of
them had the stated goal of destroying the social safety net and
moving all of the money towards the very top while cutting social
programs and moving working Americans along the road to either prison
or debt-slavery. To make matters worse, both Bush and Trump always
manage to sound rather illiterate and foolish in their public
pronouncements. They always manage to sound like a couple of idiots,
don't they? We all remember that they do.
And
here is the silver lining, shining brightly in that overcast sky.
Barack Obama, the black president, was always well considered and intelligent in his public discourse. His temperament was one
of relaxed awareness, like a Samurai, and he took whatever the
office, or ungrateful white Americans, threw at him with equanimity
and good humor. In the meantime, he managed to do a very good job of
steering the country through perilous times, getting us out of some
of Mr. Bush's real messes in the world, restoring some of our allies
faith in us, lowering our budget deficits, representing the country
overseas with dignity, and taking at least some baby steps to improve
the security and prosperity of the American people.
Mr.
Obama, the BLACK president, stands as the clear choice for best
president in the 21st Century to date. In contrast to Mr.
Bush, he is a highly intelligent and well organized man with a strong
moral compass. Compared to Mr. Trump, Barack Obama is a fucking
genius across the board, and a saint besides. And he's black!
The
black man wins! The black man shows those white mediocrities how it's
done! Isn't that wonderful? What a wonderful lesson for our children!
Doesn't that make you smile?
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