September 12, 2012--Best Sellers

Every few weeks I check the best sellers list in the Sunday New York Times to catch up with what the reading public is reading. I feel optimistic about the future when something actually good shows up on the list.

But last weekend, among the top ten hardcover best sellers were--

Obama's America (number 2)--Dinesh D'Souza's assertion that President Obama is the knowing architect of America's decline.
The Amateur (number 3)--Edward Klein's case that Obama is unable to lead.
Shadowbosses (number 4)--Citadel professor Mallory Factor's book contends that though public unions are already a threat to elections and the American way of life (because of the money they contribute to Democratic candidates), additionally, with Obama's help, they are targeting millions of Americans for forced unionization.
Fool Me Twice (number 8)--Aaron Klein's and Brenda Elliott's claim that, if he is reelected, President Obama will carry out a "radical blueprint" for a "progressive socialist takeover" of the United States.

Totally depressed--wanting to believe that rational as opposed to conspiratorial-minded people are the readers--I realized that these four books in the aggregate reveal the belief system of the lunatic, literate right.

Here is the connective tissue--

Barack Obama is not a true American. In fact, he is not an American at all. He was born in Kenya, is a Muslim, was indoctrinated by post-colonial radical ideology, then sent to America as part of a sort of Islamist sleeper cell, somehow managed to become president (mainly because groups such as ACORN and the UAW registered millions of illegal immigrants and black radicals), and as president he is actively working to bring down the American economy in order to advance his true agenda--to make it easier for the United States to come under the domination of a global Muslim caliphate.

Convinced that this is what these authors and their readers are about, I turned to the E-book best sellers list to see if technologically-minded younger people might be reading something less hysterical.

Sadly, three of the four books on the hardcover list are to be found there-- The Amateur in second place, Obama's America fifth, and Shadowbosses tenth. But no Fool Me Twice.

Small conciliation at best, but at least something.

Up to now, loving real books as I do, I have rejected the idea of reading via Nooks and Kindles. But from the comparative evidence of these best sellers lists, I think I have to get with the program and try not to be so stuffy.