Barack Obama is a Fabian Socialist

Forbes ^ | November 4, 2008 | Jerry Bowyer

[Montaignes Cat]

Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one.

Fabians believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect "fundamental change" and "social justice" was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites.

I was taught to question everyone--my president, my priest and my parents. Well, almost everyone. I wasn't supposed to question the Fabian intellectuals themselves. That's the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.

That's Obama's world.

He's telling the truth when he says that he doesn't agree with Bill Ayers' violent bombing tactics, but it's a tactical disagreement. Why use dynamite when mass media and community organizing work so much better? Who needs Molotov when you've got Saul Alinski?

So here is the playbook: The left will identify, freeze, personalize and polarize an industry, probably health care. It will attempt to nationalize one-fifth of the U.S. economy through legislative action. They will focus, as Lenin did, on the "commanding heights" of the economy, not the little guy.

The old system will be forced to subsidize the new system and there will be a gradual shift from the former to the latter.

[fortunecookie]

Great article - deftly lays out the plans for a slow, steady, crushing Socialist steamroller.

And they're half way there. Since the Carter days, they been hard at work morphing the Democrats into good little socialistas. Gone are most of the 'old time' Dems like my state's (PA) former governor, the late Bob Casey Sr. Most on the left have drunk the koolaid (thanks, NEA and unions), and could no longer distinguish Dem party ideals from socialist ones or care. Now they are out to 'convert' the rest of us.

[fortunecookie]

The most plausible scenario I have seen for how the future will unfold if Obama wins.

Seems scarily plausible.

I was taught to question everyone--my president, my priest and my parents. Well, almost everyone. I wasn't supposed to question the Fabian intellectuals themselves. That's the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.

I have had professors in college who seemed to espouse this kind of thinking. They are well entrenched in education it seems, witness the 'leadership' of Ayers, American terrorist, in an educational capacity. For those who sometimes wonder what it is that the dems have done since the last election or since Clinton left, well, it seems they have been very busy, not helping their party supporters, but forging socialist change.