The election of Barack Obama has brought us a bit of a shock: instead of being the “post-racial” president, he’s the great divider — and through no fault of his own.

Most people who voted for Barack Obama did so out of a sensible desire to advance their own ethnic group, except whites. Whites voted for the historic moment of the first black president taking office.

As with all other liberals, white liberals have a pity complex. They feel life is bad because it is unequal, and seek to change it, and this attitude soon redefines all of what they see in life: they see broken and equality as the fix.

They feel persecuted by life itself, and so identify with others who are persecuted or passed by, and in the process, come to see how easily they can transfer/project their problems on to external entities like government, the Church, the Rich, etc.

Politically, this is a disaster because it has no shutoff valve because there will never be an end to feelings of negativity until the person has learned to look at the world differently.

To put it bluntly, either you see the glass as half-empty because lemons were killed to make this lemonade, or you see the glass as half-full but thanks to the death of those lemons, we have a refreshing drink while we explore the stars.

It’s no surprise then that the election of Barack Obama did not appease such feelings of pity for self and world, but intensified them, because there is no way a single election can live up to the religious and apocalyptic feelings that made it popular.

On the other side, those who have more at stake are feeling uneasy. They know that liberal revolutions, as in 1789 in France or 1917 in Russia, follow a predictable pattern. Dissidents are removed; the wealthy are killed or exiled; learning is altered for political reasons; bureaucracy takes over from competition; and shortly afterward, the country declines toward third-world status.

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Racism or something much more complex including identity and values?