Are People Literally Starting To Worship Obama As A God?

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV editor, Gary Gibson.]

Below is the most disturbing video I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not another clip of fascist police ganging up on and murdering some peaceful citizen for no good reason. It’s not US military personnel or drones blowing up brown children in some faraway occupied land. 

It’s a small child offering a prayer. 

This clip disturbs because of what is said, by whom it is said, and to whom it said. A child. Praying. To a president. 

I’m sure this is not the first time ever that someone has prayed to a president as if he had divine powers. Thanks to the magic of the internet, however, this is the first time I have been able to witness it and have it scar my psyche. This short tragedy doesn’t just drive home the point that statism is the modern religion, as fiercely held as the ancient and often bloody superstitions; It also reveals a growing level of devotion to the monopolized violence, particularly to a drone-loving, glib sociopath who nominally heads the biggest, most powerful state the world has ever known. 

It honestly wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the child just looked into the camera and sent an open message to Obama the way he might talk to Santa Claus. Instead the child prays to Obama as if he is a god. Obama has become like a pharoah: the head of state and the divine rolled into one. 

This is doubly disturbing for me as one of the five or so black anarcho-capitalists in the world. I already see the state as an immoral but accepted monopoly on violent aggression. I see it as the source of the greatest problems plaguing the world, like war and poverty. I also see the welfare state as the continued assault on the descendents of African slaves, of which I am one, keeping so many of them poor, benighted, and dependent yet angry on those whom they depend…sort of like sullen teenagers who use their parents’ money, food and shelter yet hate their parents. 

I was born in the Caribbean and therefore tend to have an immigrant’s view of the US. That is to say, while I can trace most of my ancestry to chattel Africans — just like American blacks — and in my case from a pair of Dutch slave ships that veered off course and landed on what is now known as St. Vincent, I have not quite inherited the culture or worldview of black Americans. I see myself as just another immigrant, like an Irishman, Korean or Indian, trying to make it and not so much as a righteously angry victim who is owed something from people who didn’t directly do me any harm. 

I was able to see the logic in liberty without any hangups about entitlement or collective shaming over slavery hindering my path. In short, I don’t fall for the race-baiting that gives succor to the meddling welfare side of the state.

I don’t mean to say that this sort of worship is absent among black Caribbeans, of course. I’ve seen a poster in the house of one of my very close Caribbean relatives that listed a few “reasons” Obama is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. And I certainly don’t mean to say that there isn’t crypto-worship of this political golden calf among leftist whites. 

But the history of slavery, racism, disenfranchisement, cultural tendency toward religiosity and the disastrous effects of institutional welfare have mingled to produce the conditions that led to that little black boy praying to his brown messiah. Obama isn’t the symbol of a post-racial world or the realization of a collective dream. He’s the perfect face for the US state to put on as it continues to grow and commit ever more atrocious acts. Rendition, torture, mass murder, imperialism, total surveillance police state…This man can do it all and remain blameless in the hearts of his followers. 

Obamacare, NDAA 2012, police militarization…they were good enough reasons before to get out of the USSA and stay out. But this child’s short prayer may offer a glimpes of the most compelling reason yet to look for greener pastures. 

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