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Our nation’s impending illiteracy and apathy, were the principal causes for electing the likes of a Barack Obama to the presidency of the nation as well allowing for a Hillary Clinton or a Bernie Sanders to contend for the presidency

The makings of our voting universe



If you are like me, a political enthusiast of sorts, you probably have not missed any of the political debates that have taken place in the last few weeks, just as you might have followed the overwhelming blitzkrieg of national polls with last-minute details on how candidates are doing in their presidential races. By now, I am almost sure, you have a pretty good idea of who you would like to be the next president of the United States, and, then again, you may not – arguably choosing the president of the most powerful nation in the world, is, in fact, a solemn and austere responsibility we have all been charged with as an integral part of that idyllic system of government, we have come to know as “democracy” and/or the democratic system, nobly willed to us by our forefathers – a system that has been unswervingly protected over time by freedom-loving Americans; one worthy of all the blood spilled as a martyrdom to preserve and defend the values and principles over which this nation was first forged.
As I have said many, many times before, the 2016 elections may very well end-up being one of the most critical, if not [the] most critical elections in the history of the nation. You see, as far as I am concerned in this particular election, the electorate of the country will be making a landmark decision one whether or not, the United States of America will become yet another Socialist State and/or return to being a Democratic Republic, as originally conceived by our forefathers – the choice is reverently simple. I have personally written a book and many articles on the subject of the incontrovertible and self-evident transformation that has taken place in the nation within the last forty years of the Republic, beginning with the lamed presidency of Jimmy Carter in 1977 to the present Barack Obama administration – the latter committed to fundamentally transforming the nation, as originally pledged on five days before the Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, election, when he was first elected to becoming the next president of the United States of America. Obama’s pledge to transform the nation, did, in fact, become a gloomy reality, which simply said, transcended all expectations well beyond the realm of sound judgment, common sense, logic or otherwise simple prudence. Both domestically and internationally Obama did transform the nation in ways we never before thought possible. Domestically, in the short-span of just eight years, Americans find themselves, for the first time ever, unreservedly divided between classes. Obama has managed to galvanize the nation to where racial divide is running rampant. Never in the history of our nation did Americans bear as much grudges against each other as we do now. Our national debt and deficit have reached unimaginable heights. Barack Obama’s regime of autocracy has systematically shattered the law of the land, with utter disregard for our Constitution while governing the nation much in the same manner that third-world banana-republic nations run their countries. Through the illegal use of Executive Orders and diktats, this president has all but bypassed and circumvented the law of the land at will, albeit as close as we ever come to becoming a full-fledged totalitarian state. An administration plagued with scandals, all the while as Big Government continues to erode our personal freedoms, beginning with a compulsory health-care system to a regimented attempt at managing our second amendment rights, Americans, as a whole find themselves, much the subjects of a contemptuous government, the likes of which appear to be deeply rooted in the early philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as the latter introduced Communism to the world. Mind you, no different than our own 21st century version known as ‘socialism’ – a preferred euphemism, deliberately fashioned to soften and muddle the image of one of the most destructive forms of government ever in the history of mankind – regardless.

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In the area of international and foreign affairs, here, too, Barack Obama has managed to discredit the U.S. as the world power it once was and has weakened the country’s national prowess, reducing its military assets to its lowest levels ever. Obama has befriended our enemies and alienated our allies. Obama’s pandering ways have paved the way for terrorism to expand its frontiers all over the globe. He has fostered an agenda of self destruction and gone as far as aiding and abetting enemy nations such as Iran, empowering the latter with nuclear-power capabilities, enough to destroy us and possibly the world – all the while as our just befriended enemy and one of the world’s leading exporters of terrorism, was happy chanting to the tune of “death to America”. Yes, that’s as bad as it gets, dear friends. But, hey, let us stop here a minute and ask ourselves the question: Who was it that first elected Barack Obama into the highest post of the land not once, but twice? Who was it, if it were not for that 52% of Americans who voted to elect this hybrid implant to the highest post in the nation and in the world? It is precisely the search for answers to these questions that governs the subject of my narrative today. As I was watching the presidential debates, both republican and democrat, I just could not help myself but wonder just how many Americans, watching these debates really understood the forefront issues facing the candidates and the nation? Almost at the same time, I had an insidious flashback moment where I remembered the program Watters’ World – a program by Fox News’s interviewer Jesse B. Watters, which frequently appears on the O’Reilly Factor- one where the host, became popular for his “on-the-street” interviews, fashionably showing an array of people from all walks of life depicting their lack of knowledge on most everything and anything dealing with current and/or historic events – topics and issues, all of which, should be common-knowledge to most anyone with but a minimal amount of education and/or common sense – laughable, maybe, but not so much though, other than viewers getting a thrill over our own mainstream, widely spread ‘stupidity’. So much so, the show has taken a life of its own. I say, how sad. Well, let me say this, I think that the Watters’ World model, is not only a sad example of where many Americans are, but it is cause for deep thought on the make-up of mainstream America and by default the make-up of our voting universe, thus my reason for great concerns as to why Barack Obama was first elected president, and, by the same token, who will be elected to become our next president. Considering the monumental consequences which will ensue from the forthcoming elections of 2016 as I mentioned before, the make-up of the 2016 voting universe, thus becomes of major concern to the more educated, amongst us. While I have great admiration and respect for most of the nation’s polling organizations, and while I embrace and, again, respect the enormous strides gained in the last century as far as the way in which applied technologies are now being used relative to the sciences that deal with the forecasting and prediction of future events, by the same token, I am equally distraught with such voids as may in fact be detrimental to altruistic events determining who, in fact, is ultimately elected as the next president of the United States of America. At center stage of the point I am trying to make and the focus of my argument today, lies, American’s illiteracy and/or lack of empathy for all that should govern our votes in electing government officials, principally the president of the United States of America. How many American know or care to know, such rudimentary knowledge and understanding of some of the most unassuming issues and current events, if yet, injurious to electing our next president? How many Americans know what is ISIS? Know where Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria are on the world map? Know about the Keystone pipeline, about our GNP, or the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act? Know who Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, or Hassan Rouhani are? Really? Well, for anyone who has watched Watters’ World, you will soon find out, that many Americans, don’t even know who George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were, let alone, the aforementioned . Again, the point I am trying to make here today is, yes, nowadays, our refined strategies as used in analyzing and predicting voters behaviors and trending political comportments, has us classifying said voting groups into renowned categories, to wit, categories such as: Evangelicals, Reagan Democrats, Rockefeller Republicans, Liberals, Libertarians, Post-Moderns, New Coalition Democrats, etc., etc., not to mention the very basic classifications such as whites, blacks, Hispanic and other broader categories, all of which have but one and only one objective in common, which is to group individuals into classes in which all members are kinfolk bonded by traits or otherwise characteristics shared by the universe and, that is fine. Notwithstanding such groupings, though, all of which come but a tad short of that undesirable deportment commonly known as profiling, I have yet to see any such cataloguing assigned to the ‘Illiterates’ of the nation, never mind that the latter may be, after all, a significant part of the voting universe, albeit one which could, in fact, make the ultimate difference as to who is elected president. According to a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14% of the population. 21% of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19% of high school graduates can't read. These are, as you can imagine, compelling and frightening statistics, to say the least. As much as I was not able to find any statistical correlation between illiteracy and the voting universe, per se, it almost stands to reason to presume that many in the voting universe are afflicted by this widespread condition – one which could materially alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential elections. In fact, one which could explain why 52% of Americans voted Barack Obama into office; and, one which also explains the evident popularity enjoyed by some of the candidates less likely to win on the real issues as opposed to some other form of populous attraction, such as that presently enjoyed by alleged felonious offender, candidate Hillary Clinton or her full-blown communist contender Bernie Sanders. I have to believe, at heart, that the illiterate universe, given their disadvantage in understanding the impending real issues at hand, do pay more attention to inconsequential matters and/or frivolous issues, more so than those that should really govern their motivation to vote for one or another candidate. As well I have to believe that some of these rather trivial matters may include, but are not limited to the universe being swayed to voting for a candidate strictly based on traits such as stage-presence, charismatic appeal, physical attraction, eloquence, fluency, simplistic demagoguery and/or otherwise any other such trait lacking any substantive relativity to the real issues – a syndrome which could reasonably explain the inexplicable reasons why many Americans, as of late, seem to want Socialism as their preferred system of government alternative. Oh, and, by the way, do not kid yourselves into believing that my ‘illiteracy’ theory is exclusive to democrats and liberals only. To the contrary, my claim, in fact, is that illiteracy affects a cross-section of all the population, thus affects the entire voting universe, republicans, democrats and independents, alike. This may also explain and give credence to what I have chosen to christen as the Trump phenomenon. If you remember at the very start of this presidential race, when Mr. Trump first showed a healthy leading margin of victory over all his contenders in virtually all national polls, renown political forecasters all over the nation repeatedly assured national public opinion that it was a matter time before Mr. Trump’s lead began to dwindle, to where many experts in the business of forecasting, simply wrote the man off, and discarded him as having any real chances at all. Well, guess what, 36 weeks after Mr. Trump first announced his candidacy for president on June 16th, 2015, the man is still the frontrunner on the republican ticket, with margins sometimes even larger than back when he first launched his campaign. While many are still pondering on the possible reasons behind Mr. Trump’s success, I, on the other hand, tend to think that my illiteracy theory could very well be the reason for Mr. Trump’s evident accomplishment. That is not say that all of Mr. Trump’s pundits and followers are illiterate, but instead, that a great majority of Trump’s followers have a liking for the man’s style of delivery, for his aura as a real-estate magnate which, by default, carries also an aura of personal success, that many Americans, believe he can take to the White House. Mr. Trump’s unconventional demeanor, his outspoken ways, his unique hair style or otherwise his arrogant stands at times, are, indeed, major signs that his following is more attuned to all but the real issues. Notably, many times throughout the campaign trail, Mr. Trump has been, more often than not, criticized for a platform that lacks true substance and is more dependent on rhetorical, at times meaningless slogans, if yet, likely to connect with a mass of voters which are totally disenfranchised from the more relevant issues now facing the nation. It is quite evident to me that Mr. Trump’s over-simplification of the issues has, in fact, gained him the popularity he now enjoys – a compelling argument, if you ask me, in support of my illiteracy theory. In my humble opinion, in the end, the candidate with the greater appeal to a wide-spread of uniformed, ignorant and/or unapprised voters will be the one to win the race and be our next president. Vis-à-vis, I honestly do not believe there are sufficient literate, informed and cultured voters in the voting universe to really make the difference. I have chosen to believe that our nation’s impending illiteracy and apathy, were the principal causes for electing the likes of a Barack Obama to the presidency of the nation as well allowing for a Hillary Clinton or a Bernie Sanders to contend for the presidency in the 2016 presidential elections. As far out out-of-the-box as my theory may come to being, as much as I refuse to entertain any other such arguments to render any logic to electing any of these socialists to the highest post in the nation, as well as any other such arguments which could only mean that Americans, inclusive of the literates and, the more adept amongst us, are, in fact, on a fast track to endorsing Communism / Socialism as their preferred system of government. For now then, I will rather take my illiteracy and apathy model over any other aberrations. In closing, I would urge any and all members of that elite kindred of literate pundits which may still give credence and preference to clowns such as Obama before, Clinton and Sanders now, to spend some time in our neighboring island of Cuba, so that you all get a real good taste for what your system is all about, for what it has brought about to this island nation over the past 57 years. May God save us all and may God save America.


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Obie Usategui (The Patriot Obsever) and also runs AFCV-Americans For Conservative Values.  Obie is also the author of The Beginning of the End—“The transition to Communism in our own United states has come peacefully, ironically, via democratically-sanctioned elections”


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