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"Ideological nepotism" is a very interesting turn of phrase to describe the kind of phenomenon we are presently witnessing in American government. In fact, one can make a reasonable argument that there is an unprecedented (and I would argue - troubling) level of incestuousness with regard to the Obama Administration's members.

Virtually key every member of Obama's cabinet and White House staff, his bureaucratic leadership appointees, and his many "czars" are or were members of the same organizations: most frequently the Center for American Progress, but also SEIU, ACORN, the Tides Foundation, Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund, the Open Society Institute, Working Families Party, MoveOn, America Coming Together - and other members of a vast left-wing infrastructure which has no cognate on the right.

In keeping with the observation that Leftists frequently accuse conservatives of what they themselves are doing, one might be tempted to describe their web of political organizations, funding foundations and individuals as a "vast left-wing conspiracy".

They are simply being loyal and supportive to "the one" who is clearly attempting, and in most cases, succeeding turning this nation into a socialistic state. In their self-righteous arrogance they truly believe that marxism/socialism/communism (which is pretty much the same ideology, just semantics in what they differ) is the logical succession to capitalism and that sooner or later US will have no other choice but to follow. They believe that the reason this hasn't worked thus far in former communist country was due to the leadership and their abuse. As, Jonah Goldberg put it, it's simply communism with a smile on their face instead of a gun to one's head. What they fail to see is the reality that the only way to enforce the marxist mentality is to subjugate people and become tyrants, something which is happening already here, in some form, only carefully hidden as "sacrifices" for the greater good. Same "sacrifices" ended up with over the death of over 100 million people, which, per their own admission, it's a small price to pay!