There's been this 'unifying' theme kicking around in my noggin churning, lately: Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS).
Somehow it is the key to unraveling the political minefield that lies before us, I suspect. And if you have the time, allow me to explain those underlying uniting themes, with this post ...
Obama Derangement Syndrome -- urbandictionary.com
The acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the statements -- nay -- the very existence of Barack Obama.
Jon Stewart has called ODS: Baracknophobia.
Rand Paul says "Barack Obama is turning the United States into a 'socialist nightmare'."
Even president Obama himself joked about it recently, at the 2014 correspondents dinner:
"You'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya."
So it is plain that there is this fear of all-things Obama-related -- irrationally held by some. But what explains this mass-hysteria phenomena, and how is it different from say, BDS(Bush Derangement Syndrome) -- that gripped the nation not so many years ago?
Perhaps this irrational, hot-button fear and anger ... just goes with the Presidential territory?
Most here, would be hard-pressed not to cringe or wince, at the mere mention of the name: Dick {Darth} Cheney.
Of course if any one man, deserved all the citizenry fear and loathing, shadow-president Cheney would certainly qualify ...
Because isn't this why the human species instinctive bands together into "groups" in the first place -- so we can nominate someone to Lead ... AND so that we can conversely have someone to Blame, too?
... when all the complexities of life gather up, and fail to go {quote} "our way"? {end-quote}
The human species seems predisposed to nominate our Heroes, and alternately castigate our Scapegoats, when things go awry.
Whereas the truth of the matter probably falls somewhere in the middle, seeing as we are all human, and seeing how that Congress itself is the source of most of our collective inaction, lax oversight, and faulty legislation. That THEY really should suffer the blame ...