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No, Ben Carson is not an astute philosopher who can
spell bind you with
precise historical anecdotal evidence of rights and wrongs
by which he shames White America into doing the right thing.
No, Ben Carson is not an intellectual heavyweight who
can slice and dice
issues wherein they make sense and he can apply their
verities to everyday life situations.
No, Ben Carson is not a pragmatic thinker with sound
ideas that make sense and thus are sensible to the everyday
John Doe and Mary Jane.
So, just who is this Ben Carson?
To date, Ben Carson has issued a lot of incredulous
statements on the national scene that seemingly have their
birth in an off-taste cocktail of ignorance, incredulity and
head-in-the-clouds daydreaming.
For example, Ben Carson endorses the John Bircher
author W. Cleon Skousen whose book entitled The Naked
Communist describes what Ben views as where America is
headed.
Why would a black American go anywhere near the poisonous
nonsensical wells of the John Birch Society and yank from
that quagmire any of their gibberish?
For the life of me when white Republicans warmly wax
about Ben Carson being a brilliant neurosurgeon (he
separated conjoined twins at birth), somehow that medical
marvel, for them, carries over into Ben Carson being
brilliant in other arenas of life including being
politically astute.
Ben Carson got a jolt of lightning when he publicly
chastised President Obama, in person, at a prayer breakfast
in Washington D.C. regarding the Affordable Care Act (aka:
Obamacare).
From that audacious beginning, the fringe of the white
Republican Party found a darling in a black man willing to
publicly rebuke this black president.
From then on, it was a green light for Ben Carson and with
favor with certain factions of the Republican Party.
His book sales went up and his speaking engagements
were generously filled with enthralled Republican politicos
wanting to see, up front and in person, a black man who
called the president on the carpet.
Now, from his newly-vaunted political perch, Ben Carson,
with reckless disregard for the truth, issues vacuous pithy
political statements that can cause one to get a migraine
headache.
How about America is akin to Nazi Germany and President
Obama is akin to Hitler?
How about, if you are confronted with a wild-eyed mass
killer that you should rush the shooter since he could not
possibly kill all of the people rushing him?
How about people being able to get needed medical care
on a national basis (Obamacare) is the worst thing in
America since slavery and it is akin to slavery?
How about he prefers certain religious persons not to
be able to sit in the White House (later he clarified it by
saying only if they espouse Sharia Law)?
How about saying that President Obama has traits of a
pathological liar?
Or, when he states, without facts, that anarchy could
possibly cancel the 2016 elections or that Obama is
deliberately using the immigration laws to bring in
dependent people who will vote Democratic.
Again, no facts just pure hocus pocus talk and yet
certain people love it.
Ben Carson is a stealth candidate in the fact that
since he speaks softly and calmly and that means that he is
the opposite of a demagogic Donald Trump; and thus is a
“good” Negro with whom White America can feel safe.
Ben Carson is a stealth candidate in that he says
things with his sleepy doe eyed looks that makes people feel
that he is calm, cool and collected which is the polar
opposite of the ranting and stream of consciousness carnival
barker, Donald Trump.
Ben Carson is a stealth candidate in that even if his
answers to a host of national and foreign policy questions
border on brain freeze, his base loves it and encourages him
to just be…Ben Carson.
If you are a follower of polls, Ben Carson has caught
Donald Trump for the lead in the first caucus voting state
of Iowa. If Carson wins Iowa, he is on his way to big bucks
flowing his way and building that awfully important momentum
going into New Hampshire and then to South Carolina.
Seasoned political pundits are wide eyed and without
enough historical comparables to describe the sea change
that is now sculpting the Republican Party due to the
allegiance certain Republican voting blocs are now giving to
Ben Carson…and there seems to be no end in sight.
For Carson to capture the White House with his total
lack of any governing or management experience and to have
run solely on the high octane of sheer anger and rage (for
Ben Carson it is a controlled and subtle rage) at the
system; and without viable and fundable projects or policies
in place, America is setting itself up for a huge Humpty
Dumpty fall.
Ask yourself: Is Ben Carson the new Manchurian
Candidate (rent the movie!) and are we his new patients on
whom he could do political brain surgery?
These are exciting times but perilous political times
since, in my humble opinion, the Republican Party is off the
hook with Ben Carson as their flavor of the month.
Ben seems to be a lost black man caught up in spouting
foolish radical white-fringe Republican jargon that has no
basis in fact and much less in logic. And he seems quite OK
with it. Confused. Lost. Sad.
Ben Carson is a “bad” Negro and that is not a good
thing.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at Tolliver@Juno.com |
