Posted on 11/17/2013 11:32:28 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A disturbing trend among American conservatives is the increasing sense of optimism about President Obama's slow fade in mainstream perceptions, and its ramifications for the future of American leftism. Does Obama's decline entail the undoing of the movement he represents? Progressivism's history reveals another option, which is that the movement will, in the name of saving itself, reject Obama.
Progressives are rigid in their ideology, to be sure, but this rigidity does not extend to their support for leaders. For it follows from the inhumane core of progressivism itself that all men--even "historic" ones--are expendable in the name of the cause, namely history's march into totalitarianism.
It is true that Obama has begun to get some bad, or at least unworshipful, press,and that this is both causing and reflecting a drop in his general popularity. It is naïve, however, to assume that it betokens a breach of the establishment's ideological firewall.
Apologists for Stalin's Russia were reluctant to admit that their hero was a bloodthirsty tyrant. However, when the state-controlled press and a complicit Western intelligentsia were unable to suppress the truth any longer, even those apologists turned on him--not because he no longer represented their views,but because he no longer served their interests. Subsequently, this process of blaming all the regime's evils on one leader as a way of purifying the next became an essential mechanism of Soviet oppression. It is not hard to see how democratic politics may be corrupted into the perfection of such a mechanism. Thus, a similar fate could befall Obama, if American progressives find that their shiny hood ornament has become a rusty eyesore.
For more than six years,the American political establishment has provided cover for Obama--and that is the entire establishment, from the hard leftists of the Democrat wing to the hard careerists of the Republican wing...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It’s really scary how evil the democrats have become. Pogroms and mass slaughter are in our future if they are not stopped.
It’s amazing how history repeats itself.
My first reaction to this question is no.
The establishment can’t throw Obama under the bus because of the race card. Progressives can’t afford to alienate blacks from the political process because blacks make up a significant amount of the left wing voting bloc. Get rid of Obama and blacks may become disillusioned with politics and stay home on election day.
“It’s really scary how evil the democrats have become. Pogroms and mass slaughter are in our future if they are not stopped. It’s amazing how history repeats itself.”
It is; the genocide carried out in urban abortion mills still amazes me. The Klan became irrelevant when blacks started killing their own on a massive scale.
I think the answer here is 0bama won’t fade away as much as we’d like for the very racist reason of his being ‘black.’ The same reason he got elected, political correctness, will be a stumbling block to the progressives being able to remove him or at least minimize him in the American psyche. Essentially they would need to create a picture of failure in policy without it appearing as a total smear campaign.
This then becomes the realm of the useful idiot. I totally agree with the article’s premise about their dedication to the cause, but maintain that dedication may very well be their undoing. They would have to let the totalitarian mask slip and I’m not sure they can do that in the case of 0bama.
Sadly, truly sadly, this means 0bama may not survive his office. The lower his approval ratings the more his life is in danger from the inside. Again, the ruthlessness of the ideologues will prevail against anything that stands in the way. We are entering a very dangerous time.
“Apologists for Stalin’s Russia were reluctant to admit that their hero was a bloodthirsty tyrant. However, when the state-controlled press and a complicit Western intelligentsia were unable to suppress the truth any longer, even those apologists turned on him ...”
No, they did not! They never turned on Stalin, he died, and they changed the subject (to Fidel and Mao among others).
Uhm, considering the last few elections...
“Hell no...not a chance.”
Even the gop-e is trying to help him save obamacare.
THINK before flaming............
It is a must read article.
It exposes the Lefts Hyper-Partisanship.
Integrity and Honesty mean nothing to them, only the cause (and that cause is telling people what to do)
Sadly however the GOP follows a similar formula, when the going gets tough and left tells them who they don't like on "out" side, they toss them overboard like they had scurvy!
But this makes me wonder, who will the democrats turn too if Ubama/Stalin or Clinton/Trotsky doesn't pan out, a Third way?
I’m afraid of the answer.
The reference to the Dewey Commission is interesting.
My take:
Baraq is safely in until Jan 17.
The MSM can use that time to take some shots to buff their cred as “objective”
And work on the new plan
“Baraq had great ideas but was an inexperienced manager. Hillary is who we need to take those ideas forward.”
The Republicans on the other hand almost never unite behind one idea or one candidate.
Witness the continual bickering among Freepers over who is more conservative than who, rather than trying to fight the common enemy.
In fact, I’d say this website is full of Republicans in Name Only because their allegiance is not to a ‘big tent’ party but to their own definition of a ‘true conservative’.
The early 20th century American social critic and humorist H. L. Mencken, known for his “definitions” of terms, defined a demagogue as “one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
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