Just what the world needs: brainwashed thugs in camoflage BDUs (what’s up with those anyway?) doing parade drill and worshipping Obama. Whose idea was this??
You know, I didn't use to understand that one, either. Until I read Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism."
From pages 5-6:
Consider militarism, which has a much more nuanced relationship with fascism than one might suppose. For many people, militarism was a pragmatic expedient: the highest, best means for organizing society in productive ways. Inspired by ideas like those in William James' famous essay "The Moral Equivalent of War," militarism seemed to providea workable and sensible model for achieving desirable ends. Mussolini, who openly admired and invoked James, used this logic for his famous "Battle of the Grains" and other sweeping social initiatives. Such ideas had an immense following in the United States, with many leading progressives championing the use of "industrial armies" to create the ideal workers' democracy. Later, FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps - as militaristic a social program as one can imagine - borrowed from these ideas, as did JFK's Peace Corps.
This trope has hardly been purged from contemporary liberalism. Every day we hear about the "war on poverty," the "war on AIDS," and exhortations to make this or that social challenge the "moral equivalent of war." From health care to gun control to global warming, liberals insist that we need to "get beyond politics" and "put ideological differences behind us" in order to "do the people's business." The experts and scientists know what to do, we are told; therefore the time for debate is over. This, albeit in a nicer and more benign form, is the logic of fascism - and it was on ample display in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and yes, even JFK.
Keep in mind that Obama is raising up the next generation of little Marxist socialist activist who will declare a "war on freedom."