URL Index of URLs about Obama that Scare the Right Wing

Blogs explaining key concepts from Out of Many, One: Obama & the Third American Political Tradition

• Obama’s Belief in Universal Anti-Universalism
• Obama’s Ideology of Inclusivity
• Obama’s Ideology of Freedom & Equality Based on Difference, not Sameness
• Obama’s Notion of Earned Egalitarianism
• Spinozan Ethics & Euclidean Logic (Necessary & Sufficient)
• Obama’s Cosmopolitanism
• Hell on Earth(Obama’s Religious Worldview)
• All-Encompassing Social Sphere(Private and Public Spheres Melded or Collided)
• Collaborative Governance
• Cosmopolitan Rainbow Coalition
• 2012
• GOP Attempts to Separate Rainbow
• Obamacrats21st-Century Racism and Racial Consciousness — Racial Scripting
• Intersectional Identities— New Civil Rights (LGBTers; Persons with Disabilities,Victims of Violence)
• Intersectional Identities— Old Civil-Rights Identities (African-Americans; Latinos-Latinas; Women & Girls)
• Intersectionality of Ideas & Identities
• Neotribalism Defined
• Neotribalism (War on Women)(Role of Religion) (Bold, Sassy & Uppity People)
• Neotribalism& Transuniversal Threats (Straight Conservative Anglo-Males and Straight Liberal Anglo-Males SCAMs vs. SLAMs)
• Passports for TranssexualsObama Haters
• Battling the Roberts Courtabout Civil Rights & Religion
• Diversityand Inclusivity in the Federal Judiciary
• New Faith-Based Initiative (Including Atheists)
• Calls for Citizen Actionor Deliberative Participatory Democracy
• Creates Domestic Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
• Obama’s modus operandi as a Leader
• Federalism for Public Purpose(Horizontal and Diagonal Federalism)
• Shared-Burden Foreign Policy
• Idealist/RealistBinary be Gone
• Bold Foreign Policy
• Civil Liberty Erosions (PRISM& NSA, Drones)
• Implementing Obamacare
• Fail to Pass Legislation?  Executive Action
• Second-term Executive Branch Failures
• Implementing Dodd-Frank’sSuccesses
• Separation of Powers politics, such as Immigration& Guns
• Running Republicans & Immigration& Gun Violence
• Democrats in Obstruction

These blogs discuss the key concepts behind Obama’s contribution to the third American political tradition during his 2008 and 2012 campaigns and his first presidential term.  The blogs showcase these ideas in Obama’s second term, since my book covers only the first Obama administration.

The blogs explain Obama’s worldview:

— Hell on Earth belief — Obama accepts and understands evil, but embraces the perfectibility of humankind

— Obama’s Spinozan ethics — his reliance on Baruch Spinoza, including the Euclidean logic of necessary & sufficient

The blogs illustrate Obama’s ideology, which is universally anti-universal and embraces earned egalitarianism and equality on the basis of difference, not sameness, and my interpretation of his rainbow cosmopolitanism.  Obama also rejects the classical liberal split between the private and the public spheres, opting for an all-encompassing social sphere.

The blogs cover specific issues that underscore Obama’s perspective about identity politics or civil rights, including the GOP’s 2012 War on Women; neotribalism; what role religion plays, given Obama’s worldview about Hell on Earth; and his battle against the Roberts Court, particularly regarding race, gender, and religion.

The blogs explain how Obama has manifested the third American political tradition in his governance style in both domestic and foreign policy.  This includes Obama’s modus operandi and his penchant for executive action, given party polarization and congressional obstruction and delay.  In particular, the blogs about the implementation of Obamacareand the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act also highlight how Obama used what Out of Many, One calls “federalism for public purpose.”  This structure created a type of diagonal and horizontal federalist scaffold or structure that still could instill citizen action in what I refer to as domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Finally, the blogs illustrates how Obama governed, cementing a rainbow cosmopolitan cultural coalition despite the best efforts of Obama haters (including birthers and Tea Partiers), and the role that racial scripting played in Obama’s leadership.  (Racial scripting is a sophisticated 21st-century form of racism and racial consciousness, often stripped of overt or malicious racial intent.)