Perhaps Failure Is The Goal, After All

The idea keeps floating about that Obama, and those around him, actually want the culture to fall apart, to allow them to impose their own vision upon us.

OS has read it, heard it, and until recently, discarded it. 'Naaaahhhhh--that's paranoid ranting, tin-foil-hat stuff, etc.' OS just assumed these guys were idiots, blind and deaf to the actual consequences of their behavior.

Maybe, OS was wrong.

It's a story not worth telling in detail, but once upon a time, OS launched a business that had every reason to succeed, and yet failed. He made a crucial error, in bringing a member of ownership aboard who came recommended as someone with some 'special expertise' in the field. OS ignored a warning about the guy from someone who knew him from another context.

It didn't take long to see the error of his ways, as his 'mistake' proceeded to create chaos at every turn, in ways large and small. Only with the perspective of time did OS come to understand that his colleague's agenda was to either take over or destroy the business. In the end, he did both. It was baffling at the time, because the behavior made no sense, and it didn't occur to OS to consider that only the darkest of motivations explained the chaos being created.

Perhaps, just perhaps, this is being played out on a much larger stage, and for much higher stakes. OS hopes this is not the case.

In any case, these guys must be voted out at the earliest opportunity.