A House Divided

At some finite moment known only to God, in the fateful hours and days of 1859 and 1860, the American people became so divided that civil war was inevitable.  We have reached that point again in America.

I tried very hard this weekend to have a political conversation with an Obama supporter.  He is a genial, intelligent man who strives to be average and moderate and believes that Obama represented the prized "moderate" position for America.   But, when I tried to talk to him about Obama's glaring failures, a sort of glaze came over his eyes, his analytical skills disappeared and he was unable to find anything wrong with Obama's never ending stream of foreign policy gaffes or even Benghazi.  Obama's radical background and associates were forgotten.  The man was literally brainwashed.

I have noticed that Obama followers fit a profile, a rather scary one actually.  First, they are NOT CHRISTIANS.  (See article HERE for statistics.)They may call themselves Christians and will probably be oh so insulted if you ask questions about the orthodoxy of their faith.  On the other hand, I have as yet to meet a born again Christian who shows the fruits of the Spirit in daily practice who would not say that Obama makes their skin crawl.  Not because he is black nor because he is a Democrat or even a liberal but rather because something in their very spirit is repulsed by him.  In short, they sense evil.  One of the most basic gifts of the Holy Spirit in regeneration is an inborn ability to sense and be repulsed by evil even if you cannot put your finger on the specific reason. This quality is lacking in every Obama follower I have ever tried to talk to.  Increasingly, Christians are talking in hushed tones about Obama being, not the anti-Christ himself perhaps, but certainly his messenger and precursor.

Second, I have never met a person who has served in the military or as a peace officer who has anything but loathing for Obama.  There is a code of honor that you accept when you take up arms in protection of others.  Obama offends and continues to offend that code on so many levels that many of these folks find him and his sycophants leading them contemptible.  Obama does it because he is not a member of the warrior class, does not understand it and has no respect for it.

Third, I have never met a small business owner who supports Obama.  These are also a different class of person.  It takes something special to get out of bed in the morning, face the world and go make money on your own initiative.  It takes a special kind of courage to shoulder the risks and pay the price to build a business.  Most people can't or won't and derive their living from these special few who can and will.  As  a group, every small business owner I know thoroughly despises Obama.  Again, Obama is not a member of the entrepreneurial class, does not understand it and has no respect for it.

Fourth, Obama supporters have almost child-like ability to ignore reality and live in a world defined for them by others, particularly the traditional media, where the laws of history, nature and even mathematics are conveniently suspended.  The man I talked about above, while highly educated, lacks the core ability to separate truth from fiction, propaganda from reality.  To him, NPR and the mainstream news networks are gospel and anyone and anything that disagrees is radical and unreliable.  His worldview, his literal ability to think, have been totally shaped by what he has been told.   In short, Obama followers have no inner ability to resist propaganda.

America is now truly a house divided.  Approximately forty three percent of Americans fit the description above and forty or so percent are in direct opposition and stand prepared to simply refuse to compromise any further.  Obama's second term cannot function without some resolution of this division and I don't see how that can be done without abrogating the constitution outright and declaring a police state by federalizing private property and suspending First Amendment rights to free speech, association and exercise of religion.  That cannot end well.  May God have mercy on us.