The 2012 campaign season is in its last gasps, thank
goodness. After all, who can stand much
more of this rabid garbage? The news
reports are all about the rather vicious presidential race, even though there
are a number of quite heated senatorial races going on all around the country,
along with more than a few House races as well. And, if you believe the media talking heads, this is the most
important election in a generation, even though we seem to hear that
description every four years or so.
Personally I think it’s probably the most crucial election in our
history, deciding if we’re going to remain the US of A… or become Obama’s
version of the Soviet Union. Still,
I’ll be glad to get back to Hollywierd’s insipid offerings, or better yet, a
good book. I’ve lately been
reading a book entitled “The Manchurian President” written by Mr. Aaron Klein,
who seems to have done considerable research into Mr. Obama’s past, and who
brings up a number of interesting points.
My using that book for a reference will I’m sure, bring the loony left
and the lamestream media out in droves, hissing, spitting, and baying for my
blood, considering that Mr. Klein raises yet again the questions of Mr. Obama’s
birth, citizenship, educational background, religion, and particularly his
leftist leanings. For my purposes I’m
going to ignore all the above except for the part about Mr. Obama’s leftist
leanings, and where they’re rapidly taking us.
Mr. Klein pretty
well documents that Mr. Obama has been immersed in radical left teachings since
his youngest days, in most cases by far left radicals who had, even further
back, absorbed the teachings of socialist writer Saul Alinsky who dates back to
the 1930’s. In some cases these people
were the disciples of Alinsky. Alinsky
himself was not a communist, nor even an avowed socialist, but rather he was a
dedicated leftist who focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across North America… in itself not a bad idea. However, many of his organizational
concepts were adapted by the alienated and radicalized college students of the
later 1960s, and formed a key part of their strategies for initiating the
anti-government protests we saw flaring across the nation during the ‘60’s and
70’s. In his 1946 book "Reveille
for Radicals", Alinsky describes his motivation and rules of engagement,
which were well understood by the social radicals of the 60’s, but were
also rejected by most, who favored a communist style violent revolution within
the United States during those days.
The very same radicals who were later to become Mr. Obama’s mentors. Alinsky’s other idea, that of “working from
within the system until you could gain enough power to destroy it” was also
largely rejected at the time, until with the failure of the “revolution”, the
“New Left” largely changed it’s methods, and is today carrying on a strategy of
“boring from within” to undermine the media, academia, and of course the
government. Over the last few decades
they have joined the very government they fought against as young radicals, and
are deliberately bringing on a slow rot from within. Their goal certainly has not changed, but with their hijacking of
the Democratic Party in the 1970’s, their methods have evolved into mainstream
politics. These are the same America
hating people, the violent bombing-rioting-arsonist radicals of the 1960’s,
followers of Stalin, Mao, and Che, who nurtured Mr. Obama’s education and
training as a community organizer, guided his developing political career, and
whom today serve as his advisors. Their
goal, as Mr. Obama has told us innumerable times, is to “Change America”, to
make the United States into whatever they want it to be, with themselves as our
rulers. An America that is not the
Republic our founders envisioned, or the form of Democracy that most Americans
today seem to desire.
The idea of “share
the wealth” that Mr. Obama learned from his teachers is merely an updated
version of the old communist ideal of “to each as to his needs”, which would I
suppose be fine in theory, depending on just who is deciding what I need. A nation of welfare “takers” certainly goes
against the colonial days ideal of “No Work, No Eat”, which was explained in no
uncertain terms to the “drones” among those early day colonists, an ideal that
led us to becoming the most productive nation in history. Today, with Mr. Obama’s enthusiastic
guidance, we are developing an entire underclass of Americans who can share the
misery of socialism, people who are undereducated, have no work ethic, no hope
of improving their station in life, and who are entirely dependant on
government handouts, generation after generation. They in turn are to be ruled by a “middle-class” bureaucracy
appointed by the elite, who determine what each citizen needs, and have the
power to destroy any perceived upstart, merely by withholding those handouts. And finally we have the elites at the top of
the heap, the favored royalty who share the wealth, owning everything, make all
the decisions, and who hand down to their under-class serfs only what they
wish. I for one have no idea how long
it will take to impose this sort of rule on today’s America, but the last four
years of Obama have set us well on the way.
Only a couple of
hundred years ago life was rather short and brutal for the common people, a
lifestyle that will plague us again under Obama’s socialism. Whatever your status in today’s society,
picture yourself living in Mr. Obama’s United Socialist States of Amerika. You will live in a cramped and overcrowded
“Welfare Island” as author Jerry Pournelle calls them, an “equal opportunity
housing” ghetto where you live with a few million other “citizens”. Your “home” is a one-room shack where you’re
stuffed in with your entire family. The
government, who can evict you at any time, for any reason, owns that shack,
which may or may not have an indoor toilet… or even running water. You may or may not receive necessary medical
care, depending on the whim of a government death panel. You are of course allowed no personal
property, as that would be rubbing unfair wealth in the face of other citizens
not so fortunate. Once a day everybody
reports to the local soup line, where a government bureaucrat doles out your
government rationed daily (basic) meal.
Your only entertainment is a steady stream of government propaganda
playing on a government owned TV, or perhaps a bottle of cheap rotgut alcohol. Your job, if you’re fortunate enough to have
one, is in a government decreed position, while your minimal "paycheck
fairness” wage is immediately extracted from your pocket as Income
Tax. Tax dollars saved by defunding the
military would be channeled into "clean" energy stimulus programs. Government security police, always alert for
suspected disloyal thoughts or deeds will watch you day and night, while a
government concentration and reeducation camp awaits any malefactors. In fairness to all citizens, you have no
chance of improving your social situation… for yourself… or for your
children. For public safety, your
disarmed fellow slaves citizens have no way to fight back. In return for this government largess… you
are only expected to instantly obey your betters… and share in the misery.
Mr. Obama must
really love poor people… I think that’s why he’s been busily creating so many
of them. If he wins re-election in November, the
America of a constitutionally limited government, individual rights, economic
freedom, and personal liberty, will be but a vague memory.
