Ole President Hope ‘n’ Change is back at it, “inspiring” young people with divisive fearmongering disguised as hope. Peter Heck isn’t buying it, and notes that such rhetoric “was always one of the most frustrating aspects of Barack Obama’s rise to power.”

Obama cut his teeth in the dirty arena of corrupt Chicago politics, having learned the duplicitous art of “community organizing” from some of the most notorious theorists (Saul Alinsky), and even criminal mentors (Bill Ayers).

I remember desperately asking my less politically engaged colleagues and friends - those who had bitten down hard on the false promises of “hope and change” - “Where exactly is the hope?”

It was at first a campaign, and later a presidency, constructed entirely around:

• Grievance mongering: These people have taken from you for years and they owe you, so it’s time to take what is yours.
  
• Fear mongering: These people are evil, and will mistreat, abuse, or kill you if you don’t do this now.
  
• Race-baiting: Pay no attention to all the positive indications of racial harmony that surround you; they are a mirage that veils the underlying spirit of Jim Crow that lives loudly in communities of color.

That isn’t hope. It was never hope. It was never going to be hope. Why? Because hopeful people aren’t easily manipulated or whipped into a frenzy; fearful people are. But you can’t market yourself as an agent of fear. After all, people are far less likely to purchase a copy of, “The Audacity of Fear” than “The Audacity of Hope.” So the public charade persisted with all rational protestations falling on deaf ears.

Nevertheless, Heck says the “cult of personality” around Obama shielded him from criticism about this. “What animated Obamism,” Heck argues, “was always cynicism and anger, and absolutely nothing has changed.”

Pres. Obama’s message to young people fighting for climate action: ‘I want you to stay angry, I want you to stay frustrated, and channel that anger’ pic.twitter.com/HcRHb4KMGO

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This is what I despise about politics. It’s so self-centered, so self-aggrandizing, so self-worshipping. Obama himself does not live like this. He isn’t angry and frustrated about climate change and everyone knows it.

You don’t fly on private jets, relax comfortably in palatial estates in Martha’s Vineyard during the summer and Hawaii during the winter, and only show up for climate events to collect your speaking honorarium checks if you truly believe the earth is on a collision course with heat combustion.

He is not the one “in the trenches” for Mother Earth because he knows it isn’t a crisis. He doesn’t want young people to “stay angry” so that the climate will stop changing; he wants them to stay angry so that they’ll continue financing the grift that benefits him. It’s using people — the definition of dishonest fraud. …

No law is going to lower temperatures. No regulation is going to reduce the number of hurricanes next fall. That’s not how any of this works, and the ones who tell you that it does are far more concerned with their own well-being than yours.

Instead of “fake political messiahs,” Heck appeals to the real One. “There is hope, real hope,” he says, “for those who aren’t too proud to choose it.”

Read the whole thing here.