Barack Obama is the logical outcome of the groundwork that Marxist foot soldiers – whether knowingly, or serving the role of useful idiots – have cleared.

The reality is that there are few coincidences in the insipid moral-social-political state of man today. Dare I even mention our truncated capacity for spiritual fulfillment?  Jacques Barzun's enlightened and rigorous mind can help us in this respect when he wrote: "We have the culture that we deserve."

College graduates have never felt more useful than during the 2008 election.

Since the late 1960s Marxist ideology has successfully siphoned the mores, values, and the time proven virtues that have served to guide the lives of autonomous and responsible individuals in the western world. This has been achieved by declaring man a victim of his own determinism (read: dialectical materialism and entitlement through proxy).

The practical, day-to-day implementation of this radical ideology – the machinations and poisoning of the Marxist trinity of class, race, and gender – can only reach such heights through the exploitation and politicization of education at all levels.

This should not come as a surprise.

Contrary to popular opinion, there are winners and losers in the dumbing down of a nation and culture.

For these anti-rational and historically ignorant minds, the assumption is simple: When men declare war on each other, only then will Marxist "solutions" to human problems save the day. One perennial quality of radical ideologues is their life-consuming, "religious" fervor in the quest for power. Their patience in outcome assessment is legendary.

Enter Barack Obama and his band of radical militants.

To prescient, critical, and historically savvy minds, this crusader for socialist victory at-any-cause agenda comes across as little more than an empty suit. The twentieth century is a testament to the malefic and dangerous popular stature that empty rhetoric can achieve.

Frankly, Mr. Obama's record demonstrates no promise for the future stability of American life or the free world. His record on crime and abortion alone speak volumes about his inability to understand human nature. The Senator and his disciples have also demonstrated profound and troubling incompetence as to the principles of economics.

As we have witnessed again and again, anti-rational rhetoric serves a practical purpose in "inspiring" mass movements. Perhaps no thinker has pointed this out better than Eric Hoffer in The True Believer. Those who cast a ballot for the Senator from Illinois did so for extra-political reasons, for his mantra of "Change" is actually very much the fabric of the failed and destructive policies of the twentieth century.

However, Mr. Obama is a logical choice to head the nation and the free world at this time in our history. His candidacy makes perfect sense. While those who have a semblance of historical perspicuity are not surprised at the Senator's meteoric rise to national prominence, the reasons for this still elude the apolitical, non-radical ideologue, and unsuspecting man on the street.

Many are still asking themselves: How has the American capacity to decipher truth from base opinions, lies from historical fact, and reason from fantasy been dismantled so effectively and efficiently?

Consider that left to our own devices, man's rational, intuitive reflexes, and good will always know better. This is the case regardless of the caprice of fashionable theorists. Of course, the annihilation of good willed spontaneity quickly explains the current messianic Obama fanaticism. His guru – savior status – is hardly a coincidence. Only small children and malcontents will buy this.

Unfortunately, there is a pattern to all this.

The people who should know better, in what is still technically speaking a free and open society – teachers, academics, and the press – have turned their back on facts, historical necessity, and argumentation in exchange for the blinding ecstasy of radical ideology.

Apparently, Mr. Obama's financiers and his shameless media cadre friends have taken stock of human good will and have replaced this with barren appearances. Sadly, the interplay of good and evil will only be aggravated by the promise of a politically expedient utopia.

Actually, the Senator's politically correct promises point to the past, not the future. A quick glance at recent history is more than ample proof of the aforementioned, if facts and objectivity is what one seeks.

Ironically, the common man rarely suspects the motives of these arrogant, rabid ideologues who justify their indefensible, anti-rational claims with the mantra that they – and only they – know better. The common man has never been more despised by the vulgar elites that claim to represent him.

This is evidenced in the marked differences between politics and power. Politics, as Aristotle and others have pointed out, is nothing more than the art of governing. Power, on the other hand, is the essence of radical ideology. Without power radical ideology cannot exist. Power works as the modus operandi and salvation of radical ideologues. Let us not forget that it was Marx himself who taught us this virulent fact.

Again, today we can readily turn to history, closed-ended, and staring us down with abundant facts, if one is into this sort of thing.

Marxists and their vast array of intellectually dishonest, nescient, moral Lilliputian, malcontents have diligently hammered away at human reason and virtues for at least the last forty years. They have displaced human spontaneity and converted it into a feel-good, disingenuous bevy of "everything is political."  Not surprisingly, this can only be achieved through the kind of self-consuming power trip and hatred that disguises itself in catch-all slogans that include, but which are not limited to: "love & peace," "the people's will," and "tolerance." These are all uncritical, hollow, and self-serving indicators of a bankrupted populism.

The twentieth century is our best textbook.

Why should any critical thinker in 2008 America be taken by surprise of an Obama presidency?  Shock and horror are not mutually exclusive. He is the logical outcome of the groundwork that Marxist foot soldiers – whether knowingly, or serving the role of useful idiots – have cleared. This radical ideology has dominated the highest echelons of American institutions since at least the 1960s. These include the once objective press, the intellectually insolvent halls of academia, and what used to be a God-centered church.

The minions who run many of these institutions have invested endless resources in creating "the new man" of the twenty-first century – that is us today. The names that Marxist ideologues employ are never important, for these are always expediently fluid. Words are merely a means to securing temporal, social-political gains. They have referred to themselves as being communists, socialists, social democrats, progressives, environmental determinists – and counting.

Stupefaction is a universal human trait.

Frankly speaking, in 2008, the chickens have come home to roost: Marxists in all their masquerade gala manifestations now refer to themselves as everything under the sun, but not by their proper name.

Will the real Barack Obama take off his mask?