Posted on 10/29/2008 5:59:48 AM PDT by shortstop
In 2001, Barack Obama said he saw aspects of Nazi Germany in American society and government.
He also said the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally flawed.
And that he was disappointed that the Supreme Court had not ordered federally administered financial equality as part of the civil rights movement.
He also called for a political coalition to be formed that would force “redistributive” policies on the American people – using the power of government to equalize wealth across the society.
In 2008, that political coalition is about to take power.
It’s called Obama ’08.
And more surprising than the fact that a candidate for American president should harbor these political views is that nearly half the people in the country don’t see any problem with them. The fact he holds such anti-American views is attributable to his own particular history and values. The fact tens of millions of people can be taken in by such views is attributable to a social and educational system that has failed to teach a love of country and an understanding of its unique history and values.
Unfortunately, we have raised a generation – and a candidate – steeped in Karl Marx instead of John Locke.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher of the middle 1800s who believed that property should be communal, that the money and labor of everyone should be thrown into one government-controlled pot and then passed back out to people based on their need.
He said, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
His teachings are the foundation of Communism and the governments of the Soviet Union, China and Cuba. He inspired Josef Stalin, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse Tung.
John Locke was an English philosopher of the late 1600s. He believed that people were only free if they were economically free. If you are not free to control the fruits of your own labors, then you are not truly free – you are a slave to whoever can take possession of what you produce.
His philosophy was, “Life, liberty and possession of property.”
His teachings are the foundation of the government of the United States of America. He inspired Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, various other Founding Fathers, Voltaire and Rousseau.
Nowhere are John Locke’s teachings better encapsulated than in the Declaration of Independence. Nowhere are Karl Marx’s teachings better repudiated than in the Declaration of Independence.
Karl Marx taught that the individual is inferior to the state. John Locke taught that the individual is superior to the state. Karl Marx preached the collective will. John Locke preached the individual will.
Karl Marx called for central planning and control of society and its members. John Locke called for a society comprised of members planning and controlling their own lives.
The philosophies of Karl Marx and John Locke are mirror opposites. They are irreconcilable and mutually exclusive.
The Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution for our Republic that reflected, among other things, the values of John Locke. The supporters of Karl Marx have, for some 150 years, been the enemies of America and its Constitution.
The Constitution is the core of America. It is both the agreement that binds the states together and the rulebook that defines what this country is. It includes a Bill of Rights that guarantees liberties – listed and unlisted – to American people as individuals.
When people go in the Armed Forces – or become presidents of the United States – they swear to uphold and defend the Constitution.
It does not seem that Barack Obama could honor that oath.
If he considers the Constitution fundamentally flawed, and his own personal views contradict its very nature, how can Barack Obama uphold and defend it? How can a man who sees parallels with Nazi Germany in American society possibly love this country?
Barack Obama said that he believes the Supreme Court has the power to control all property in the United States and order its redistribution equally to everyone in the country. That means he believes you don’t have a right to your property, or to the money you earn. He believes the government can take that from you as it will, and parcel it out however it sees fit.
That’s “sharing the wealth.”
He also said that he wanted to organize a political coalition that would be – using his favorite word, again – “redistributive.” At the very foundation of his political career and philosophy is the belief that government-guaranteed equal rights isn’t enough, what really counts is government-guaranteed equal wealth.
The problem with that is that people are different. People have different talents, and work ethics, educations and ambitions. To assure equal outcome requires you to extinguish individual rights and opportunity.
When you guarantee that one citizen will not fail, you likewise guarantee that another citizen will not succeed. Without freedom to do the one, there is not freedom to do the other.
The Obama way is not the American way. The American way values individual freedom and encourages individual success. It honors self-reliance and recognizes that the government is our servant, not our master. It abhors tax slavery and considers that any man who takes another man’s money is a thief.
In 2001, speaking freely on public radio, Barack Obama was a Marxist.
In 2008, playing word games on the campaign trail, Barack Obama is still a Marxist.
Shame on him.
And shame on a society so ignorant of its very nature that it neither notices nor cares.
The question should be, “What’s right with a Marxist?” The list would be far shorter.
No, he didn't. He was talking about what was motivating the USSC in the 1940's after another speaker was talking about horrible atrocities inflicted on blacks in the 1920's 30's and 40's. I want to win as much as anyone but this out of context stuff is just dishonest.
Obama already has basically said he is a Marxist. Why would so many people want to be under Marxist type control? This whole election has totally blown my mind.
The problem is that since history really isn't taught, and that those in charge of education are the same ones who were enamored with socialism, communism, and Marxist economic and political philosophy, it shouldn't be a surprise.
I don't think that anyone under 30 is aware of the oppression of the Soviet Union, or remembers seeing people risking their lives (or losing their lives) trying to get out of East Berlin.
Che is now a popular t-shirt logo, as opposed to the murderous agitator he really was.
Mark
Kelo was an attack on the concept of private property, which is anathema to socialists.
Mark
Or an educational system that taught Marxism since 1962. The teachers now teaching were all taught by Marxists, and had to please Marxist professors to get their degrees and teaching certificates.
A lot of this planning in advance was discussed by Tom Hayden, way back when:
http://www.tomhayden.com/porthuron.htm#WhatIsNeeded
And we ssssee thesssse chickenssss coming home to roosssst...
That’s really intriguing. It’s a heavy read (for me) but I hope to plow through it. Thanks for posting.
I think the key to getting this out with impact is to find and publish all historic documents and correspondence associated with planned parenthood, linking it to the “negro project”.
No doubt they wouldn’t refer to that project these days...
but they may have been less careful in earlier years.
Where is the proof linking PP to this “project”?
If it exists, it needs to come out!
der Albtraum.
sorry guys... i was responding to the video at top, forgot I was in an unrelated thread
You let communist professors like Barack Obama brainwash your kids and you pay them well to do it!
I have been saying this for a long time.
Stop financing communist indoctrination of your own children!
After you try to raise your young children with the proper values, you turn them over to communist bastards who are living off your hard-earned money while they lie to your children about the fundamental principles and history of the United States of America.
Stop being stupid!
Starve these communist madrassas of money and they will die and the propagandists will have to get jobs delivering pizza and shoveling manure out of barns which is their true calling.
I don't think he inspired Rousseau enough.
GD:
“Has anybody else read this article?
Obama Hypnosis Techniques”
I started it but I fell asleep ;-)
“And shame on a society so ignorant of its very nature that it neither notices nor cares.”
Yeah, but when, for the last 40 years, all kids (and adults) have heard are socialistic notions through gov’t schools, universities, MSM, and Hollywood/TV, what does he expect? And it isn’t all of “society”... yet.
The Democrat party is merely the mouthpiece of the main stream media.
tip of the hat to KG.
Did you dream that a light shined down on you and you had an epiphany that you needed to vote for Obama?
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