For a very long time now, the Left has been telling us that the most wonderful thing possible is to be the first member of a fringe group to do something. The phrase “first black…” has been so heavily used it has lost all meaning. The Left now tacks on adjectives to sweeten the pot so we get combinations like “first black transgendered amputee….” but they have added in other groups to keep the racket going. Now that we have had the first black president, they want the first fake Indian president.

The thing is, we used to know that it was a bad idea to put weirdos in charge of anything. In this context, weirdo means anyone outside the core group. The British used to know that it was a bad idea to have a Catholic as prime minister. A major company would not appoint a confirmed bachelor as CEO. The French would never have a heterosexual as a general. In America, Nixon is a great example of how a bitter outsider cannot function in leadership.

Group hatred has always been an issue, but common sense was at play too. A distinct minority group was going to nurse a lot of grudges against the majority. If they ever got control of the levers of power, it was assumed they would exact some revenge. This is still well understood in the Middle East. Keeping the fringe out of power is a top priority. Examples of why are Iraq and Syria, where motivated and pissed off minority sects have killed a lot of people.

In America, we’re learning this with Obama. There was a lot of effort put into convincing us that even though he was black, he was not that black. Joe Biden called him clean and articulate, which was a way of saying he was not Jesse Jackson. Harry Reid mentioned that he was not a shuffling negro. In other words, he was not a black guy nursing a laundry list of grievances.

Of course, that has turned out to be total nonsense. Obama is a typical black guy and that means he is obsessed with race. All of his friends are black and all of his key advisers are black. All of those friends and advisers nurse the typical grievances we have come to expect from blacks in America. One of Obama’s closest friends is using race to dodge a trial of Obama cronies in Illinois.

Similarly, the Left is finding out that a taste for penis is not the only thing wrong with Chris Hughes. This nasty piece of work destroyed one of the Left’s great properties out of a fit of pique. Normal people who have had dealings with homosexuals knows that sexual inversion is just the bit of the iceberg we see with them. Under the waterline is a mass of crazy that makes dealing with them impossible. There are exceptions, of course, but prudence says you assume the worst and never put them in charge.

We’re going to find this out with Hispanics in the not so distant future. The Left is preparing the Castro Twins to be the next leaders. Both have managed to grow up in Texas, with a raging hatred of Texas and Texans. Putting them in charge makes as much sense as putting a foreign born Muslim in the White House so we can be sure it will happen. That’s life in post-reality America. Everything we used to know is forgotten and then painfully relearned.