President Obama has succeeded in transforming America. The constitutional republic is dead. A socialist empire has been born. This is the true meaning — and historical significance — of the Nov. 6 election.
From the outset of his presidency, Mr. Obama vowed to be a “transformative” leader. His re-election shows that he has achieved his primary goal: Erecting a European social democracy.
By any objective measure, his first term has been a colossal failure. His signature legislative achievements — the economic stimulus, Obamacare — are unpopular. Unemployment has remained chronically high.
Economic growth is sputtering. The recovery is anemic. Inflation is rising. He has presided over multiple, consecutive trillion-dollar plus budget deficits. He has amassed over $5 trillion in debt. The national debt is above $16 trillion — a staggering amount that threatens our economic security. We are sliding toward Greece and impending bankruptcy. Yet, the electorate rewarded him with another term.
Why? The answer is simple and ominous: Because over half the population — 50 percent plus one — now are dependent upon government benefits. For the past four years, the Obama administration has created a Franco-German welfare state, whose sole purpose is to forge a majority political coalition wedded to the Democratic Party.
The stimulus, the health-care overhaul, the redirecting of financial resources to the inner cities, the explosion in Americans on food stamps and welfare, the massive spending increases in public education, infrastructure and agriculture, the green energy boondoggles, the bailouts of the auto industry, the contraceptive mandate, the federal funding of abortion, support for homosexual marriage, and pushing amnesty for illegal aliens — all of these measures directly bought off key liberal constituencies, such as unions, public sector workers, environmentalists, blacks, Hispanics, feminists and the LGBT community.
In short, America has been fractured into two nations: the tax producers and the tax consumers, the givers and the takers, those who generate the wealth and those who exploit it. Mr. Obama has now peeled off the larger chunk. The productive classes are being harnessed into subsidizing the non-productive elements. Statism and sex trumps entrepreneurship and self-reliance.
Contrary to myth, liberalism is not a political ideology but a pseudo-religion — or rather, it is a substitute for traditional religion. It is driven by emotion, symbolism, irrationality and blind, intense faith. Its Holy Trinity is race, class and gender. Its church is the Democratic Party. And its savior — its secular messiah — is Mr. Obama. He has fostered a cult of personality common among leftist revolutionaries. Despite blatant failures, he is not held accountable by his supporters. Like Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is never blamed by his ideological followers for any mistakes or misdeeds; it is always someone else’s fault — especially, former President George W. Bush. Obamaites have one ever-present bogeyman: Mr. Bush. He is the American left’s Devil.
Moreover, this explains Mr. Obama’s strategy — playing the race card, the relentless attacks on “millionaires and billionaires,” and the phony claims of a GOP “war on women.” The only real war is the Democrats‘ ceaseless assault upon traditional America. Mr. Obama is practicing the old policy of divide and conquer. His aim is to splinter and polarize society in the ruthless pursuit of power.
The path is now clear for Mr. Obama’s complete transformation of America. He has admitted that the key to his re-election was the huge Hispanic turnout. He plans to repay the favor by pushing amnesty for nearly 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants. The New York Times reports that Mr. Obama considers “comprehensive immigration reform” to be his first priority in a second term. The reason is obvious: Granting amnesty would permanently shift the electoral map in favor of the Democrats. Pivotal states with large illegal populations, such as Texas, Arizona, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, would become deep blue. It would ensure national one-party Democratic rule for generations.
The last line of defense is the Republican-controlled House. The Senate remains firmly in Democratic hands. Mr. Obama will reshape the Supreme Court, as he fills inevitable upcoming vacancies. The establishment media is his lapdog. Hollywood backs him. The popular culture idolizes him. Almost every major institution is falling under his influence. The president has shown nothing but contempt for the Constitution. He is remaking America in his own image. Can Republicans stop him? If not, there will be no return from Obama’s Amerika.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and the host of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s AM-680 WRKO (www.wrko.com) from 6-9 am and 11 am-noon EST.