Bad Leaders and a Bad Culture

Barack Obama: A reflection of society

Many Americans are in a celebratory mood after the recent mid-term election that saw the Republican Party gain control over the Senate.

That means the Republicans control both the House and the Senate for the first time since 2006. While that gives a lot of folks the hope that life will finally start improving in America after six years of Barack Obama, they shouldn't get their hopes up.

Political leaders--especially bad ones such as Obama--are the mirror reflection of the society they come from. If a society is morally strong, then it will produce people of strong moral character who fear God and shun evil.

But if a society is morally weak, then it will produce people of bad moral character who will lie, steal and cheat the people who elected them to office.

Thus, the very reason why bad leaders get elected to office is because the people who vote for them are as bad--or even worse--than they are.

Barack Obama isn't some angel who became a victim of the polluted culture of Washington, D.C. He's a bad person and he's always been a bad person.

For starters, he's a Marxist who sat at the feet of communists such as Frank Marshall Davis and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. He also embraced the bigotry of Harvard Professor Derrick Bell and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright whose racism was indistinguishable from the likes of Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan.

As a young Chicago lawyer working for the firm Davis, Miner and Barnhill in the early 1990s, Obama represented reprehensible slumlords such as Tony Rezko and Bishop Arthur Brazier. And Obama learned his politics from the utterly contemptible Chicago Democratic Machine that's made an art form out of corruption.

All this was well known even before Obama ran for the presidency. And yet millions of people who voted for Obama twice are expressing buyer's remorse, now claiming they were unaware of his sordid past.

If they were indeed unaware of his past, it's because they were too lazy to find out. And laziness is a foundational cause of moral weakness.

Over 80 years ago, the moral apathy of a nation led to the rise of one of history's worst mass murderers. In 1933, the German people elected Adolf Hitler as their chancellor, ostensible based upon his lofty rhetoric and hypnotic speeches that promised to fundamentally transform Germany and lead the nation into a new, prosperous age.

Does that sound familiar? It should. Like America in 2008, Germany was suffering severe economic problems in 1933. Like many Americans in 2008, Germans were looking for a messianic figure who would lead them out of despair and the economic abyss.

Germans were so desperate for a messiah that they willingly allowed themselves to be conned by Hitler.

And after the mask came off and Hitler revealed himself to be the monster he really was, many Germans expressed the same buyer's remorse that Americans have expressed with Obama. Many Germans professed shock that Hitler had not only betrayed them but had turned out to be so evil.

Sadly, had they bothered to vet Hitler, they would've discovered what he was all about. In 1925, Hitler published Mein Kampf that revealed his totalitarian ideology and his utter contempt for the Jews that he wanted to eliminate from the face of the earth.

Had the German people taken the time to background check Hitler, they could have prevented the Holocaust and World War II. But they refused. And the rest is history.

Certainly, Barack Obama isn't Adolf Hitler. But he's still a terrible leader who's undeserving and unqualified for the presidency. And he's in the White House because of the stupidity and apathy of millions of Americans who projected in Obama what they saw in themselves.

Nearly 3,000 years ago, Solomon wrote this: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7)

Without the fear of God in the land, people become stupid, lazy and morally corrupt. And they choose wicked leaders who are the mirror image of themselves.