Obama Rehearses the Liberal Political Formula
For Obama and his Democrat friends, bending the arc towards justice means little more than using government power to invent new gubmint handouts for Democrat voters, because justice.
Christopher Chantrill | June 22, 2026
A couple of months after Barack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, I had lunch with a liberal friend. “Isn’t it wonderful to have the first black president?” she said. “Huh?” I thought. I had voted for Obama not because he was black but because two terms of Bush was enough. Just as two terms of Clinton were enough. And two terms of FDR would have been enough.
I believe that the job of politics is to avoid civil war, and that is all. Politicians know nothing about the rest of life, from morality to the economy to art and the humanities, and it shows.
I experienced President Obama’s speech at the opening of his brutalist presidential center on Juneteenth 2026 as an opportunity for me to analyze the current Democrat Party Political Formula.
Political Formula: “the set of doctrines, myths, or abstract principles that a ruling elite uses to legitimize its authority and secure the passive obedience of the masses.”
Obama spoke about the Founding:
In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration’s promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property, but in drafting a constitution and a bill of rights, they did have the foresight, the genius to provide us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect.
Yeah, I get it. Because the “founders fell terribly short,” liberals should be empowered to crank up government power forever. Because justice.
But no power for far-right racist-sexist-homophobes. No soup for you, bigot.
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