Recommended Reading: How Obama Thinks

“How Obama Thinks” is an urgently important article by Dinesh D’Souza in Forbes.

Having grown up in Post-colonial India Mr. D’Souza experienced and understands anticolonialism, a political movement, set of moral assumptions, and world view that most Americans know nothing about.  Anticolonialism was the life’s mission of Barack Obama’s Harvard-educated, Kenyan father, who was a powerful influence on his son.

Drawing from Obama’s aut0-biography, named “Dreams from My Father,” D’Souza demonstrates that the son’s bizarre policies are the implementation of his father’s largely fallacious ideology.

The powerful conclusion:

Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man in the White House. He is the last anticolonial. Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.

But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped in his father’s time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father’s dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost.