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Race Canard
July 31st, 2008Barack Obama is playing the race canard … again.
Responding to a reporter, Obama claimed that the McCain camp was “… going to try to … make you scared of me … you know, ‘he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”‘
This is not the first time that Obama has accused his opposition of being racist without any proof thereof. This particular form of falsehood is not new but it is clever. Race has always been an issue in this campaign, primarily because Obama and the media make such a fuss about it (frankly, who cares if an unrepentant socialist is black, white, half-toned, or purple with pink polka dots — his authoritarian tendencies are the issue). The interesting aspect is Obama’s externalization.
For anyone fortunate enough to have not delved into the pseudoscience of Freudian psychology, externalization is the process whereby a person projects their own self loathing onto other people, perhaps the only principle that fraud Freud developed. This defense mechanism makes it possible for weak minded people to deal with what they dislike most about themselves by perceiving the same fault in others.
We do not have to look far to find the origins of Obama’s externalization. In his own book he relates tales of being at odds with his own identities and his difficulty with selecting one. The process was greatly slowed by his admitted narcotic abuse. Being uncertain of his race (either one), drugged out of his skull, inflicted by the insane logic of an openly racist reverend … it is little wonder that Obama has a certain sense of self hatred or that he would rapidly externalize it upon his opponents.
Undecided voters will decide this election. Analysis of independents throughout recent history shows they research more deeply than the average voter and that they base much of their decision on their gut instinct about the integrity (or lack thereof) of the candidate. Obama’s externalizations will be his undoing as independent voters evaluate who is the true racist in this race.
I’ve gotta ask: Why do you correctly point out that Freudian psychology is a pseudoscience not worth delving into - and then promptly delve into it in an attempt to explain Obama?
Good question, and worth a clarification in the post.
I think externalization is one of the few psychological generalization that has ample validity. Personal experience tells me it may be a usable tool, though we have to accept that some people are just belligerent and generally angry and not externalizing a host of self hatred.