Obama, Freud, and the American Progressives' Guilt Trip

American Thinker ^ | 2/7/10 | Chuck Rogér

[Mozilla]

At the turn of the twentieth century, "progressive" Vermonter named John Dewey kick-started a makeover of America's education system.

Psychologizing introduced an emotionalism to education that defocused the student from facts, knowledge, and contributing to the prosperity of society. Teachers gradually split into factions, with ruinous consequences for American society. Some teachers continued to embrace the knowledge goal, but many of them began to indoctrinate their captive young sponges in "critical thinking" -- a euphemism for rabidly questioning everything and adopting a mindset that rejects all that has gone before. Traditional American values and free-market capitalism have become primary targets of critical thinking.

A product of Harvard and Columbia Universities, President Barack Obama declared his desire to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." But why? An emotionally stable man in love with a woman does not wish to "fundamentally transform" her. Yet our president would have us believe that when the object of his love is his country, he has license to remake his loved one into something he'd really love -- really.

Barack Obama, quintessential embodiment of that psyche, fears the responsibility that accompanies Freud's "aggression" of the sort required to defend America, a country guilty of so much evil. Progressives reject actions to which their haywire minds assign evil intent, and any aggression in defense of the malevolent empire reflects evil intent. Furthermore, aggression means action, and action takes time -- time that the pseudo-intellectual needs for theorizing impossible theories. Therefore, in place of physical aggression, Obama summons guilt, softens it with manufactured feel-good platitudes, apologizes for his guilty country, and plays Ring around the Rosie with murderous Iranian and al-Qaeda thugs. In his spare time, the president invites economic ruin with policies adorned in "fairness" and sold through eloquence. Progressive shame often wears such hypnotic camouflage.

[Mozilla]

The Progressive Education System as well as the American Government is corrupt to the core and must be stopped.

Obama is just like all elite liberal professors in Universities. And who were the founders of the progressive movement? Elites, to be sure and mostly wealthy elites.

Wealthy and spoiled enough to be guilty and use their knowledge of guilt to convert people to their radical ways of thinking.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The education establishment gave us global warming.

[all the best]

Guilt? No, no, no!!! These people are not driven by guilt. Guilt presumes some absolute moral standard. Which these people do not have. Because of this they are driven to destroy all that is good, decent, wholesome, moral. I have had it with people who actually think so highly of leftist monsters to think that they are capable of feeling guilt.
They want to destroy PERIOD.

[Diogenesis]

“Western thinking has become conservative:
the world situation should stay as it is at any cost;
there should be no changes. ....
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support
from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see
communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In
our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero
and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with
empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to
withstand the East.”
[Dr. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn at the Commencement,
8 June 1978, Harvard University]

[Mozilla]

Right, they want to destroy America, but by playing the guilt card they help make everyone guilty for all sorts of things.
Among them they make people feel guilty for the problem within the black race and communities and from them making it in the world. Guilt is something the left uses to its advantage. They play race warfare and class warfare. And it all begins at the schools where they indoctrinate the college students into believing that they are guilty.

[Mozilla]

And I will add, it doesn’t just start in College or even High School, but early in grade school. Therefore, the kids are them given asset of core beliefs. And reinforced throughout schooling.

That is why the education system is ground for scrutiny since the left has taken control of it to hawk their agenda.

[all the best]

I have posted this Evan Sayet Heritage Foundation video many times to illustrate my point. Sayet is a former comedian an is amusing as well as informative. This runs just over an hour and is well worth the time. I always get very positive comments form the people who watch it.

I agree with your comments. all the best

[little jeremiah]

They feel guilty if they’re not evil and perverted enough.

[Chode]