MR. OBAMA AND THE FOOL’S GOLD OF FAIRNESS

The product of a long -term relentless indoctrination in the progressive radical school, President Obama has never varied from his life mission.

Yes, a portion of Americans absorbed the staccato of the "One" , the chant of "change we can believe in" and the seduction of the healer. Many simply "wanted" to believe in something that never existed. It was a mirage. An imagery and technique right out the text book of tyrants from across the ages.

However the truth was always there for all to see. The only surprise is they didn’t.

Now as the Obama Presidency is in free fall, the gesture and notions of accommodation are being fully discarded. Now the creation of imagined enemies and emasculation of the virtues that made this country great be it free enterprise, individual rights, or capitalism are laid out as evil in the quest for that fool’s gold of the left:  "fairness".

This twisted logic is at the fraudulent core of the soul of socialism. It is a primary mover of their mania and a mantra which overshadows each act.

Mr. Obama’s repeated consideration of others and affirmation that all positions must be considered never had a grain of truth. They were merely techniques to allow the lie of socialism the incubation time to grow. 

It takes an almighty turn of the mind to stop and absorb that the prism the social engineer is working from is not the conventions of the American way. 

We want to believe he wants job growth and to get America back on the road to prosperity. Yet his riposte is the perpetual principle of "fairness" with the attendant demagoguery, division and policies meant to humble our nation and citizenry to heal what he views as a flawed system. 

It takes time to understand this as the objective. That nationalization of one sixth of our economy is not about taking care of the illusory victims of our health care system but rather the most expedient means of accelerating socialism and mediocrity. 

Americans are a simple people. They want the best for their families and they believe in the goodness of our soul. 

This is not the mind set of this man. He is an enigma because his perspective has been that of someone on a mission and a set of beliefs that our alien to our ways. 

Yes, he knows how to make it sound reasonable, but each and every policy or manifesto is about the "equitable" redistribution of wealth and power away from the people who are to be controlled, mandated and dictated by those elites who are doing good for us all. 

This is why the concept of our "exceptionalism" is a raw nerve for the socialist mind. It is precisely what we should not be. It is from their perspective a haughty and arrogant notion built off the exploitation of the "under races" by white bigotry. 

"Fairness" means redressing this and every facet of our daily life. 

The irony is that as he energizes his base with bald affirmation of their dream, he is making it clear for Americans to understand this reality.

He is not focused on a return to an expansive prosperity – far from it. He will have achieved his goal when our growth, ambition and self-interest are centrally managed for all, in an environment where we accept a more modest plateau and the materially reduced pie is "shared" by all. 

This is the nirvana that Mr. Obama and the Left acclaim as the decency we have been unable to attain because our self interest created an "unfair" and unbalanced world. 

Next year, Americans have to make a choice. Surrender to this dream and willingly pay for it or restore the time tested values that have made this the greatest nation on earth. We could not have starker alternatives views. 

One thrives on optimism in the human spirit and our God-given freedom, while the other is based on a fundamental lack of faith in our people and their right to free choice. It is based on a belief that they have made the wrong choices, and that only a self-chosen few can correct this for all. 

I still believe in an America that will reject this view as all free people from time immemorial have done. Come November next year, Mr. Obama will come to understand this all too well.

Robert F. Agostinelli is co-founder of  The Rhone Group, a private equity firm based in Paris, London, and New York.  He will be a featured speaker at Rendezvous XI this coming weekend (October 7-9) in Washington DC.