{"id":26677,"date":"2014-07-04T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T05:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26677"},"modified":"2014-07-04T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:49:23","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-obamas-cult-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/is-this-the-end-of-obamas-cult-of-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the end of Obama’s cult of personality?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ace, at Ace of Spades H.Q.<\/em><\/a>, says the latest Quinnipiac poll shows that Barack Obama’s cult of personality is over:<\/p>\n

It is cathartic and reassuring for We, The Gaslighted<\/a>, to finally have the majority of the public agreeing that we were essentially right all along.<\/p>\n

That shouldn’t matter — ideally, a man possessed of the truth should not care if his truth is popular or not — but as a practical matter it does.<\/p>\n

It is an altogether unpleasant experience to be separated from one’s fellows and the greater culture by knowing a truth the masses consider unspeakable. And so then it is pleasant to see the mass of humanity regain its senses.<\/p>\n

It is good to no longer be called “crazy” by people who are themselves overtaken by madness.<\/p>\n

So the Cult of Personality is well and truly dead. Never again will we hear hoseannas about our Great Leader’s supple mind, erotically throbbing pectoral muscles, or literary genius, except perhaps from our Great Leader himself or his whispering sycophant Valerie Jarrett.<\/p>\n

This is good for America, as well: It is a stupid and frightening and shameful thing for a people to fall so hard for a ridiculous, false-on-its-face fairy tale about a Crusading Hero Who Will Deliver Us All. This is how nations die.<\/p>\n

Perhaps America has learned some hard-won wisdom from its folly. Perhaps there will not be a Next Charismatic Cult of Personality Hero on a White Horse, at least for a generation.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Obama will become a shorthand for a dreadful folly, like “Ozymandias” or “Icarus.”<\/p>\n

I could scarcely imagine a man more deserving of such a fate as the Failed God Obama.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the American public is every bit as stupid as I think they are, and will fall for the next Man on a White Horse just as easily as it did for this one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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