Posted on 10/26/2008 9:41:07 AM PDT by Ohioan
The Obama response to any discussion of his involvement with a former Weatherman leader, engaged in radical revolutionary tactics in the 1960s, has been that he (Obama) was only eight years old at the time of the Ayers involvement in acts of overt sedition, and that he has since denounced those actions. This, of course, is irrelevant to the issue of whether or not Obama and Ayers share a common Marxist ideology--a common vision of a new monolithic totalitarian Socialist America. Ayers may have changed his tactics, that does not mean that he has changed his goals.
When Lenin and Trotsky left Russia, at a time when they were unable to manage a successful uprising, that did not mean an abandonment of their loathsome Marxist ideology. They were simply biding their time for the right moment. When Hitler abandoned the tactics of trying to launch violent revolution in a beer hall, after serving a jail term over the incident, it did not mean that he had abandoned his ultimate goal of a Monolithic Socialist Germany. He simply changed his tactics and bided his time.
Conservatives need to stop worrying about Ayers earlier tactics and focus on Ayers' & now Obama's continuing objective. For half a Century, too many have been dazzled by the ideological sleight of hand, that some of the few actually clever Leftists employed at the height of the Legislative investigations of conspiratorial Communism in the 1950s, to gradually desensitize Americans to what had actually been going on. The tactic has been simple but effective. Always focus on the "conspiracy" aspect at the expense of the actual ideology that the conspirators employed. Always imply that those discussing Leftist activity are paranoid--"Conspiracy Theorists"--that they see Communists "under people's beds." The tactic took a while to really gain traction, but in time it did, and lately to an extent where even Conservative radio talk show hosts are often very careful to distance themselves from any one who might be labelled a "Conspiracy Theorist."
Whether one wants to call the Obama association with known Marxist activists a "conspiracy," or not, is wholly irrelevant to the question of the direction that an Obama Administration would take! Would Lenin and Trotsky have been more acceptable to Americans, had they like Hitler in Germany, changed tactics and sought power through political manipulation? Was Hitler more acceptable to Americans, because he had forged the biggest voting block in Germany in 1933? Because he, like Obama, could draw vast cowds, filling great stadiums, cheering hypnotic, sloganized rhetoric, rather than firing into a beer hall ceiling and shouting "freedom?" Are we more concerned with the tactics of the moment or the future of the free societies that the Founding Fathers vindicated in the Revolution and sought to protect in the Constitution?
There is little doubt but that the "Changes" Obama wants for America are the same ones that his mentor William Ayers has been pursuing all his adult life. Obama made it very clear, when he was distancing himself from Rev. Wright, where he stood. He told us that while Wright had embraced the Conservative value of self-help--personal responsibility--that would never work until we "changed America." Self-help, personal responsibility, has always worked in America. It is the fundament for our history, for all our success, all our prosperity, all our hopes. Moreover, even from the standpoint of Black America--which is no part of Obama's roots--Booker T. Washington demonstrated to all who were paying attention, that the same ethic worked very well indeed. The decline in the well being of the Black inner cities of America, since the New Deal and Civil Rights movements, can be directly traced to the later rejection of Booker T. Washington's American values. (See our October Feature on Obama: Obama--Community Organizer.)
William Flax October 26, 2008
I have had a lot of experience in getting audiences to listen to the truth, despite their previous conditioning. It can be done, but you need to understand how they have been conditioned to be effective.
Where’s the link for this?
I have been alternating this A.M. between my yard, and trying to help fellow Conservatives avoid the pitfalls that come from not fully grasping the conditioning to which the public has been exposed by two generations of Leftist leaning media and Academia. My Oberlin College degree really does have some benefits, if one understands what to look for.
We can yet put this Obamanation down.
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ
Yes, by all means. But understand my point at the top of this thread. Otherwise the preconditioning of so many may defeat your efforts.
We just have to keep hard at it right up to election day.
Also, with his own actions, Obama over-rides the pre-conditioning as is happening with millions of former Hillary supporters (PUMA) all over the country.
“I was only eight years old at the time of the Ayers involvement,”
And Obama continues......
but was learning the islamic teachings as a citizen of Indonesia.
He needs to be stopped!
Not news the democrats have been doing hand jobs for years that’s how they get elected (wink wink).
But my point is that it is important to understand the type of conditioning in play to be able to offset the effect. Sometimes the rapier is more effective than the bludgeon.
It is their denial of human nature in Marxist dogma; the denial of history in their claimed historic inevitability; their demonstrated hatred of all that is holy--and of all men and women who succeed as individuals--that should be our focus in attacking them and their spokesmen; as well as their threat to traditional family values, etc. But always in attacking them, keep in mind whom you are addressing, and what that person can verify in his own experience, as opposed to what some Fabian Socialist or Marxist Professor told him was true in College.
We need to keep the reasoned education, you advocate, going at all times, not just seasonally.
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But in this particular cycle, with respects to Obama specifically in this election, we have to work hard right through election day to defeat him this time.
Even the worst "Liberals," as opposed to out and out Marxist Revolutionaries, really do not want to buy a "pig in a poke."
It has to be done with finesse, so as not to trigger the conditioned reflexes, but questions have to be asked.
I know it sounds unfair to many, but we need to find a way to get people to understand that it is not an accident, that something so carefully choreographed as a Presidential acceptance speech, was not accidentally moved to a great stadium from a Convention Hall. The need for Totalitarian movements to show massed support is a very significant aspect of their collective mindsets--I actually used the phenomenon as a major factor in the denouement of my political novel, Return Of The Gods. To the Socialist Totalitarian, numbers are everything. Neither the stadium nor the chanting in unison were accidental.
The other side of all of this is, of course, incredibly grim. Our politics have degenerated into the exact opposite of what the calm, deliberating, Patriots, hoped to establish.
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A further bump.
I continue to bump this, not out of ego, but out of a concern that not enough attention is being paid to Obama’s totalitarian mindset. Even if some of his ideas on dealing with current issues were acceptable, he shows all the signs of something Americans have never seen before in our Presidential politics—not even from FDR, JFK, LBJ, or WJC, although the last did show a milder form of some of the same tendencies.
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Can you do a youtube?
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