Yes, right now all does feel lost with respect to the coming election due to the takeover of mainstream media by the left in our country. But the election hasn’t happened yet! Do not give up hope!

If you don’t read the American Thinker–start doing it. You will receive your advanced degree in history and come to understand how we got to the point where avowed socialists have taken over Congress, and may soon take over the presidency.

Many may have read the previous sentence and yawned. Or you may have read my previous post and thought, “Nice try Jim. But you’re just being melodramatic by saying a vote for Obama is a vote to hasten the end of democracy in our country.” I’ll respond by saying, did you in your wildest dreams think our government would suddenly nationalize (remove from private ownership) most of our banking industry? That Congress would abdicate its responsibility under the Constitution for spending taxpayer money by handing over a blank check (up to $700 BILLION) to a single, unelected person (Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson)? Are you awake?? Do you know how fundamentally and radically everything is changing around us right now???

Most people do not know or care that Obama is completely socialist in ideology. They think he’s just a little bit further “left” than some others. It DOES matter who formed his political ideology and the people he has associated himself with: Saul Alinsky–who wrote and created the ideology of destroying your political opponents with smears and lies and anyway you can; William Ayers who is a domestic terrorist responsible for a plot to bomb the Pentagon in the 70s; Jeremiah Wright who preaches God Damn America. Do Obama’s buds matter? You bet they matter. Every single one of them a socialist. And so is Obama. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

With respect to history, most people don’t realize that Nazi Germany, the Communist Soviet Union and Communist China all arose from the political left–not the right. They became socialist first, then inevitably descended into tyranny and dictatorship. This stuff starts on the left folks…it starts with statism (the State becoming all powerful). In our country, it is starting (and now well-advanced) with the Democrat Party.

Instead of me ranting about it, read for yourself a few paragraphs from “Why Obama’s socialism matters” in today’s American Thinker:

Once you vest all power in the state, history demonstrates that the state, although technically composed of individuals, in fact takes on a life of its own, with the operating bureaucracy driving it to ever greater extremes of control. Additionally, history demonstrates that, if the wrong person becomes all-powerful in the state, the absence of individualism means that the state becomes a juggernaut, completely in thrall to a psychopath’s ideas. Herewith some examples:

My favorite example is always Nazi Germany because so many people forget that it was a socialist dictatorship. Or perhaps they’re ignorant of the fact that the Nazi’s official and frequently forgotten name was the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. In other words, while most people consider the Nazi party to be a totalitarian ideology arising from the right, it was, in fact, a totalitarian party arising from the left.

Practically within minutes of the Nazi takeover of the German government, individuals were subordinated to the state. Even industries that remained privately owned (and there were many, as opponents of the Nazis = socialist theory like to point out), were allowed to do so only if their owners bent their efforts to the benefit of the state. Show a hint of individualism, and an unwillingness to cooperate, and you’d swiftly find yourself in Dachau, with a government operative sitting in that executive chair you once owned.

We all know what life was like in this Nazi socialist state. Citizens immediately lost the right to bear arms; thought crimes were punished with imprisonment and death; children were indoctrinated into giving their allegiance to the state, not the family; the government dictated the way in which people could live their day-to-day lives; and people who appeared to be outliers to the harmony of the conscienceless government entity (gays, mentally ill-people, physically handicapped people, Jews, gypsies) were dehumanized and eventually slaughtered.

And here’s something important for you to realize as you think about what happened in that socialist state. While a core group of people, Hitler included, undoubtedly envisioned these extremes as their initial goals, most didn’t. They just thought that, after the utter chaos of the 1920s (especially the economic chaos), the socialists would calm the economy (which they did), and simply remove from people the painful obligation of having to make their way in the world.  It was only incrementally that the average German bought into the ever-more-extreme demands of the state – and those who didn’t buy in were coerced because of the state’s unfettered willingness to use its vast, brute power to subordinate individuals to its demand.

Did you catch that? The people in 1920s Germany wanted the government to “remove the painful obligation of having to make their way in the world.” Sound familiar? Economic bailout anyone? Can’t pay your mortgage, no problem, Uncle Sam will? Big, bad insurance won’t pay for that operation, no problem, we’ll nationalize health care and you can get it FREE! Once you start down that path, the slippery slope becomes a cliff. I think we’re getting perilously close the the edge.

Please, inform yourself. Learn history. Understand where the threat really comes from against our country. Be a patriot! Stand up to the Democrat Socialist Party.

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