Posted on 02/23/2008 8:41:16 AM PST by GVnana
BUMP TO BUY THIS BOOK! Thanks for posting! :-)
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Oba-messiah talk, I will make a shrine next to my computer to burn incense and prepare for the change for hope. (Or is it hope for change - it is so hard to keep straight.)
I am about half done with the book. It is fantasitic.
One, I learned much about Italian fascism and second, how much
freedoms were restricted in the US by Wilson and the progressives during WWI.
I highly recommend this book to all FREEPERS.
This brings to mind several nightmarish Marxist visions: the recruiting of young American Leftists to help harvest the sugar cane in Cuba, or Jim Jones' Marxist Jonestown collective farm, or the backyard blast furnaces in Mao's Great Leap Forward, or Pol Pot herding the intellectuals and city dwellers onto his rural slave labor farms.
I saw a TV program the other night on the Mansion family and the interviews with the young, mostly middle class women who followed Charles Manson were interesting. These women said that they didn’t know why they liked Manson, it was just something about him. He offered them a new world that would be better than the existing one. I could not help but be overcome by the comparisons between the young people who followed Charles Manson and the young people today who follow Obama. Like the Manson followers they have no idea why they like Obama, they just do. And they have no idea what Obama stands for or what he would do to this country.
Same old socialism, different package.
Unfortunately, Obama is a 100% pure, unadulterated, collectivist (wearing a smiley-face button).
He goes way beyond the noble concepts of basic human rights and equal opportunity in a free society (very acceptable), to the principle of “access” - to others’ earnings through high taxation and “social programs” (wealth transfers).
This is economic egalitarianism, it’s socialism.
Maybe B.O. slept through his Econ classes. Wealth transfers destroy the economy - the skilled producers (”rich people”) who will lose incentives to continue investing in themselves, and work 80-hour weeks.
Everybody should read Road to Serfdom, and other classic books on how an economy works. Its like those critical principles have been “lost” on the general public. Most voters are 2-year olds — never grew up, and accepted responsibility for their OWN economic fate and future — they treat the income from OTHERS’ hard work lie it’s their parent’s “allowance” to be taken by manipulation or other means (political force).
Grow up, Democrats. Get some morals, live a life of civility, not thuggishness - it’s not YOUR money, create, grow, or make your own! It’s the honorable thing to do in a peaceful, free society.
work lie it’s = work like it’s
“The idea that government can love you is the central myth that conservatives are always going to have to fight.”
Oh, they love you all right. As long as you can pay your taxes...
“Barack, as Oprah said, is one of the most brilliant men you will meet in our lifetime.”
Brilliant?...hmmmmm
Interesting, since Oprah was born prior to the death of Albert Einstein. I doubt they met but their “lifetimes” do cross.
I can enumerate several of Einsteins accomplishments.
Thanx for the post-should be a good book-most likely my next purchase.Anyways...anyone who wants to find out a little more about Saul Alinsky and why he’s so popular with the left(Hill+Obama)-pick up “Rules for Radicals”,subtitle-”A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”.Under 200 pgs.
I read it and I was very impressed by the argument and the saliency of it all. Liberals should read it simply because the book doesn’t blame them, it just shows the logical progression of leftist thought. It is almost a parallel book to “Road to Serfdom.”
Now that the Obama group is saying this, it is easy to understand why he is so dangerous.
Even compassionate conservatives?
I’m thinking he’s more along the lines of Wesley Mouch, the man of no accomplishments who continually desires ‘wider powers’.
mark
“The idea that government can love you is the central myth that conservatives are always going to have to fight.”
That was the sentence I picked up on as well.
LIBERALS - looking for love in all the wrong places.
This interview contains a nit I am compelled to pick, however.
SNIP . . a natural human desire to want to recreate that sort of religious, spiritual tribal feeling. And we constantly are looking for it in our politics. The problem is it’s fool’s gold. You can never get it.
A near miss analogy.
Fool's gold is the stuff that glitters, but is not gold.
You can, indeed, obtain it fairly easily, but it is relatively worthless.
(I wonder if that Hitler smiley is copyrighted?)
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