Beyond Class Warfare

We hear about it every day:  Barack Obama is attempting to incite class warfare.  To my mind this is a true but an incomplete assertion.   The class warfare that Obama promotes to his self-serving ends is more than class warfare; it is class warfare as a subset of identity warfare.

There is a critical difference:  Despite all its faults, class warfare is, at least, objective.  In class warfare one sets a measurable criterion to differentiate friend from foe.  Using a purely class warfare standard, Barack, for instance, might tell us that anyone making more than $250,000 a year, anyone who votes Republican, or anyone working on Wall Street are the enemy.  But Obama goes beyond class; he includes race, ideology, education, and whatever issue du jour suits him in any particular situation; he then decides on the fly the subjective criteria that determines who or what gets labeled as it does.  For instance, any black, no matter how black, is “not black enough,” if he or she disagrees with Barack.  You can be sure that Herman Cain would not be considered a “real” African American according to the Obama metric.

Barack Obama is fond of finding a scapegoat, exaggerating what he feels are its negative qualities, and encouraging his followers to denigrate, humiliate, and castigate the scapegoated person or idea.  Watch him, listen to him, and you will find this occurring again and again.  

In short, the President who does not embrace his biracial identity not only is a slave to his own identity conflict, he is an identity slavemaster.  Like Santa Claus, Barack Obama makes his list, checks it twice, and then determines who’s naughty and nice.  Unlike Santa, Obama is not content merely to put coal in the stockings of the naughty.  Barack Hussein Obama also incites his minions to punish anyone whose identity conflicts with his own.  Remember Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber, who on October 12, 2008  challenged Obama’s tax plan?  According to Julian Sanchez,

In the days following the debate, The Columbus Dispatch reported this weekend, Wurzelbacher's file at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles was accessed three times. The information requests came from accounts associated with the office of the state attorney general, the Toledo Police Department, and the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency. The attorney general's office has said, however, that the request did not come from their office, but from a "test account" used by their IT division and shared with other law enforcement agencies.   

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/10/joe-the-plumber-database-snooping-under-investigation.ars