Equality, Relativism, and The Chicago Way

According to Victor Davis Hanson, there are three catalysts/ideas/background/origins that are driving Obama's agenda- Equality of Result, Multiculturalism, and The Chicago Way.

Equality of result is the belief that it isn't fair that some people are born smarter, faster, harder working, talented in different areas, etc, and thus earn more money, earn more respect, or earn more benefits in life. It isn't enough to simply put in place a system that encourages people to achieve to the best of their abilities, because some people's best will be better than other people's best, and they believe that isn't fair. Instead, a system must be put in place which assures equality of result, so that everyone gets everything equally. It's an old idea and an idea that has failed many times over, but that doesn't mean that people don't believe it today. "It isn't fair that not everyone gets healthcare," "it isn't fair that not everyone gets a living wage," etc- the idea is that it is morally wrong for there to exist different end results for different people. Thus the state must step in a correct these wrongs, through various communistic, socialistic, and progressivistic government actions. Obama believes in this philosophy, and since he knows almost nothing of economics, theology, history, or law, he doesn't even realize that he is naive and dangerous for believing in this idea.

Multiculturalism (moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, post-modernism, moral relativism, etc) is the idea that the origin of the unhappiness and unfufillment of today’s women/nonwhites/poor comes from the historical 'privileges' of the white Christian Western males, who have come to dominate society through oppression of said women/nonwhites/poor. Poverty and unhappiness are not due to accident, fate, bad luck, bad decisions, poor judgment, illegality or drug use, or simple tragedy, but rather exclusively to a system that is rigged to ensure oppression on the basis of race, class, and gender. Thus there is a need for government to level the playing field by redistributing the wealth and opportunities away from white male Christians. Obama learned these ideas sitting in the pew listening to Rev. Wright for 20 years, and you can hear echo's of these ideas when he talks about how his his wife is a victim (even though she makes 300K/year) and reflexively stands up to protect Professor Gates.

The last motivation that Victor Davis Hanson points to for Obama is his training in politics in Chicago, where he learned 'The Chicago Way.' This is the idea that a small insider clique can control the government, that the wheels of government can be greased with bribes and by pork projects, and that every word that comes out of Obama's mouth means nothing at all- they are 'words, just words' as Obama put it. This is how Obama rose to power, and this is how he views power.

I've long noticed these same things. Don't believe me? Then go back and read some of the following posts:
The Good and Bad of Obama
Obama: Promising Everything, Delivering Nothing
Barack Obama - Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Corruption, Thy Name is Democrat
Liberalism is a Religion
The Religion of the Democrats