>>>This is EXPLOSIVE. Membership in a socialist party plus proof that the Obama campaign was lying about his not having been a member of the New Party.<<<
This is A DUD. The concepts of socialism, communism, and totalitarianism have been so watered down by the media and schools that most Americans either don’t care or see those terms as archiac throwbacks to the McCarthy hearings.
You and I know better, certainly, but I’m talking about most people. The genius of leftist writers screaming “blacklist” for 50 years is that any accusation of leftist intent is viewed by most people as the barking of a toothless dog. Some of us, either by education or experience, understand the immense threat leftwing ideas bring to a society, culture, and government, but we’re nowhere near the majority.
Then there’s the utopian problem.
I’ve been a teacher for 10 years. During that time, I’ve heard two colleagues say these exact words: “Communism is a good idea, but it hasn’t been tried right.” (The colleagues were separated by 2,000 miles and four years, too... spooky.) There are also people out there who view infatuation with socialism and its byproducts as a good thing that all smart young people should dabble in, the same people who fashionably posted that poster of Che Guevara or Mao in their dorm room.
Add to that the sheer mass of people who think all politicans are lying scum, so they don’t care if Obama lies, too.
This news will unleash a collective yawn in the American psyche, which is too bad. This news is like standing on the tracks and mistaking the light of an oncoming train for a bright star on the horizon.
You're right. Using these words to convince someone of the danger Obama poses is almost a sure way to tune them out. "Oh come on", "I know he's liberal, but a communist?" "What, like Hitler? Gimme a break." It's like there's a complete void of understanding of what these things, that they exist in the here and now, and how they are very effectively and methodically being put into place via the Democrat machine -- and the media.
Unfortunately, I think you're right.
And remember the "Clinton Effect?" The more we found to pile on him, the more The True Believers fought back by refusing to even hear it.