Posted on 11/29/2013 6:18:31 AM PST by kristinn
During a recent stay in Berlin, I visited the old headquarters of the East German Ministry of State Security, better known as the Stasi. The building, in a suitably bleak part of what used to be East Berlin, is now a museum devoted to the communist surveillance state. The upper floors display some of the tools of that surveillance -- miniature cameras, listening devices, files on everything -- that the German Democratic Republic used to control every aspect of its citizens' lives.
But the first floor of the Stasi Museum is not about spying. Instead, it is devoted to the propaganda that East German bureaucrats used to foster socialist consciousness in an unwilling public. One display explains the GDR's efforts in the 1950s to politicize what in the past had been family and religious occasions. The state sought to transform weddings, confirmations, and other personal events into "socialist celebrations," to be "committed collectively and aimed at a confession to socialism," according to the awkward English translation of the exhibit.
The exhibition informs visitors that the project "did not gain popular acceptance." Amazingly enough, people didn't want to turn their family holidays into socialist celebrations.
Here at home, this Thanksgiving brings an effort by the Obama administration to turn a day of giving thanks into a day of discussion about the virtues of national health care. On Wednesday afternoon, just hours before Thanksgiving, President Obama's Twitter account -- which has more than 40 million followers -- sent out this message: "Make sure everyone who sits down with you for #Thanksgivukkah dinner is covered." ("Thanksgivukkah" refers to this year's rare overlap of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.)
The president's tweet linked to a photo of a young man sitting at a table with a turkey and a menorah. The accompanying text:...
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Because he can.
Because many are supposed to honor GOD, the Miltary, or Veterans.
Because of a strong leftist conviction to his ideology. Nothing else matters to him IMO.
This is all he knows how to do. He would politicize intestinal gas if he could figure out a way.
I never expected any class out of the “One”.
Because B. Hussein needs to produce at least one distraction a week from his 2012 first degree murder plot at Benghazi.
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But what about the separation of Turkey and State?
And we see how the state sanctioning of marriage in the form of licensure leads to men marrying men and women marrying women.
A communist revolution requires that social traditions first be destroyed. Pretty much everything about communism requires that something be destroyed first.
Because he’s a liberal. To liberals, everything is political.
His ongoing war on religion, tradition, faith, and the American way of life, ya think? Or, his attempt, as well as all Liberals, to destroy the American way of life in favor of Government power over We the People?
Because that’s they way he rolls.
I think a more valid question would be to ask: why wouldn’t he?
Conservatives have a real problem in that they ascribe traits such as decency, humility, and honesty to our opposition when in fact those are all considered character flaws by those same opponents.
everything is political
look at his life (as we can discern it between the lies)
and what he was and is without politics and once the choom wears off
an empty suit, bloviating, on a platform is his only “substance”.
He is a Pinko
Eactly
1. He beholds himself higher than Providence.
2. He beholds himself higher than all the military members, including those at home and abroad, and especially those who have paid the highest price, because they did NOT do so, unto him!
3. He beholds himself, worthy of gathering any praise that has previously been bestowed upon this nation, and not unto him.
4. He beholds himself, as a true blue-blood regal monarch, and despises the word, “Freedom”, for that idewa is anathema, unto him.
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