The Communists Behind Obama’s Health Care Goals

Front Page Mag ^ | 12-22-09 | John Perazzo

[smokingfrog]

The polls have been clear for quite some time: By a substantial margin, Americans oppose the efforts of Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats to enact a massive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, one that would greatly expand the federal government’s role.

Significantly, the President’s deeply held positions on healthcare were derived largely from the influence of a politically aggressive group of longtime Marxists whose worldviews were consistent with those Obama had already developed from other radical influences in his life. But before we examine who those particular Marxists were, let us establish, with certainty, what Obama’s long-term objectives for healthcare actually are.

As an Illinois state senator in 2003, Obama unambiguously told an AFL-CIO conference:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal healthcare [plan]…. That’s what I’d like to see.”

In a single-payer system, a government-run organization would manage the healthcare of every man, woman, and child in the United States—collecting all related fees and paying out all related costs.

At an SEIU Health Care Forum on March 24, 2007, Obama sang the same tune—though this time he conceded that the attainment of his ultimate vision might require a gradual, incremental approach:

“There’s going to be, potentially, some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out…”

In the summer of 2008, when a campaign audience member asked him to comment on single-payer healthcare, Obama candidly replied:

“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.”

Earlier this year, however, the President—recognizing the American public’s opposition to such a system, as reflected in every reputable opinion poll—made a calculated political move to withdraw the single-payer option from the bargaining table.

[lentulusgracchus]

He’s quite frankly not smart enough to come up with 99.99999999% of the things he’s supportive of. A tool.

People thought Lincoln was a dummy, too.

A million dead people later, he had what he wanted.

[newguy357]

People thought Lincoln was a dummy, too.

A million dead people later, he had what he wanted.

Thanks for your deep insight, Cleatus. Now go back to your trailer park to the arms of your sister/wife.

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for your deep insight, Cleatus.

Bite me, Stupid.

[livius]

The left has generated a new eschatology, a whole new way of thinking, which rejects the logic and and culture that was the common experience in America at least through the Eisenhower administration.

This is very true, but I think you can trace it further back than that in the US, to the progressivists of the early part of the 20th century. They didn't have the fully developed intellectual infrastructure, nor did they have the game plan that they would have a few decades later, but people like Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey were already chipping away at the intellectual and philosophical foundation of the US.

It was an American version of the trahison des clercs, since virtually all of this started with the academic elites and has been continued by them.

Dewey, of course, determined the future course of US education, and since he was a utilitarian atheist, viewing human beings as social constructs, this became the fundamental if unarticulated view of most educators in the US.

By the time the more sophisticated theories of the Frankfurt School were introduced into the US and translated into concrete plans, the educational system was ripe for a takeover, because its unstated foundations were already essentially in harmony with Marxist theory.

[nathanbedford]

I completely agree with you. The brainwashing of America has been going on at least since the time of the progressives and especially with John Dewey.

I only bring up the Eisenhower era as a starting point because, frankly, Ike's first election is the first election in my memory and it roughly coincides with the "McCarthy" era.

I see from another thread that Horwitz is reporting that the image of Chairman Mao adorns the White House Christmas tree. Not since Bill and Hillary featured a daisy chain of bugerers has the White House been so hip. The triumph of the Frankfurt school is now complete everywhere...

... except on free Republic where I can still wish you

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[bvw]

That’s not good. Thanks for the article!

[livius]

Ike’s is the first election I remember, too. I had the peculiar circumstance of attending school in several different states from one coast to the other, finally ending up in New York City.

While I was too young to understand the implications of this at the time, I remember that the schools’ attitudes towards US history were very different. By the time I got to high school in New York, our teachers had moved beyond the “demythologizing” of US history (where everything was revealed to be a capitalist plot) and had graduated to overt contempt for American principles and society. I remember being shown that stupid film about Woody Guthrie and the brave Communists protesting McCarthy...

1968 represented the full flowering of this, and was at its heart really the ultimate, out-and-out leftist take-over of the educational system; after the riots, anybody who wasn’t with the program was forced out within a few years. And now we have the movers and shakers of 1968 manipulating their very own evil tool in the White House.

But as you say, nathanbedford, at least here we can still wish each other

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[ripley]

“The Communists Behind Obama’s Health Care Plan”

Correction needed;

“The Murdering, Lying, Communist Scu&bags Behind Obama’s Health Care Plan”

(Brought to you by the American electorate who wanted to feel brilliant.)

IMHO

[sergeantdave]

“Communism should be against the law.”

Yep.

It’s been my contention for years that we need one simple amendment to the Constitution: All laws, regulations and rulings based on communism, socialism or fascism are illegal.

Then we can really clean the stable.

[andy58-in-nh]

Great post.

Yours is among the few direct references I have seen to the Frankfurt School, which for the uninitiated refers to the "Institute for Social Research", founded in Frankfurt, Germany in 1924 as a school dedicated to the scientific study of Marxism. Among its progenitors were Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and one Theodor W. Adorno, a Marxist economist whose work later had a significant impact on a young man by the name of Barack Obama.

[Inwoodian]

Very cogent analysis. This was all in hidden bloom during “The McCarthy Era”. Just read “Blacklisted by History” by Stanton Evans for a recitation of the infection of the pernicious Commies in government when Joe tried to shine a light.

[Wahoo82]

What is it with Jews and communism/Marxism? What is their ultimate goal? They continue today to try to push this form of government on us.

[andy58-in-nh]

What is it with Jews and communism/Marxism?

That's a long story, but it has its roots in the persecution suffered by European Jews at the hands of the ruling houses of central and Eastern Europe, primarily the Czars in Russia, the Hohenzollern dynasty in imperial Germany and the Hapsburgs in Austria-Hungary.

During the late 19th century, many Jews found comfort and assistance among those who opposed the empires and their rulers, a fair number of whom were acolytes of Karl Marx. For them, Communism promised an escape from the pogroms and political persecution. After immigrating to America, many Jews from these regions clung to their roots, particularly those who settled in New York.

Much of my own family came here from these same areas, but as Jewish merchants and tradesmen they apparently had little use for the Reds. It also probably helped that most settled well outside of New York. Whatever the reason, my parents were Truman Democrats, socially liberal but virulently anti-Communist. My dad became a Republican before he passed away, and my mom is still registered with the GOP. I consider myself a Conservative, as the GOP has been a little too liberal for my tastes.

[azishot]

Barack Obama did not conceive of socialized medicine on his own.

Of course he didn't! He (or any of them) doesn't care one wit about *health care*. It's all about CONTROL to him and his crummy cohorts.

[Wahoo82]

I can see your point about the late 19th century.

I agree about the GOP. Bush was a great disappointment in his expansion of government.

[PGalt]

Great post; discussion; thread. Thanks to all.

[smokingfrog]

You’re right about the frankfurters, of course, but if we had a 4th estate that was doing its’ job, they would be exposing this stuff.

What we’ve got going on now is a sort-of stealth revolution, taking place from the top down, right under our noses. Perhaps Glenn Beck needs to boil some frogs for real next time.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Wonder which treasonous schmuck or whose staffer in Congress stole the Auschwitz sign?

[danamco]

Regarding Health Care, Barry the usurper, ALWAYS goes to Andy Stern first!!!

[rodguy911]

This is my take as well.
Ozero is and always has been a candidate. A Manchurian. He reads totus and is told what to do from the time he wakes until he is put back in his crypt.