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Obama warns about dangers of market-based systems: 'Compatible with slavery'
Washington Examiner ^ | 11/04/2023 | Jenny Goldsberry

Posted on 11/04/2023 9:19:35 PM PDT by Rusty0604

But just because an economic system generated wealth and innovation doesn’t mean it guarantees a good society," Obama said. "Because from the outset, market-based systems have been compatible with slavery, caste systems, colonialization, war, exploration, corruption, fraud, autocracy, the poisoning of our natural environment."

As Obama listed, the audience applauded. The former president went on to credit Democratic governments for "moderating capitalism's excesses" with a "social safety net." According to him, it will take "young leaders to help us think and act anew" about "creating an economic system that supports and sustains our democratic values."


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To: GnuThere

My opinion, shared by many others, is that Obama is actually running Biden’s regime. I suppose he’s out there to help Biden, or himself, to 4 more years.


141 posted on 11/05/2023 9:27:02 AM PST by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Rusty0604
My opinion, shared by many others, is that Obama is actually running Biden’s regime.

My opinion is that the people who ran the Obama regime are also running the Biden regime.

Obama ain't that smart.

142 posted on 11/05/2023 9:27:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rusty0604

Oh yes this is Obama’s 4th term


143 posted on 11/05/2023 9:28:15 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: dfwgator

That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.


144 posted on 11/05/2023 9:29:07 AM PST by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Has USA repented of killing over 64 million of it’s unborn citizens?


145 posted on 11/05/2023 10:24:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rusty0604

Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the rest.


146 posted on 11/05/2023 12:44:30 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

True!


147 posted on 11/05/2023 12:53:12 PM PST by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Rusty0604

Totally wrong. The government making economic decisions is compatible with slavery. It goes along with authoritarianism, and enslaves people all over the World.


148 posted on 11/05/2023 3:47:51 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Rusty0604

These are extremely perilous times for our country. The Democrats aided an insurrection in 2020. There is no reason to believe that they won’t try to do it again. Expect Biden to get dumped for a more “progressive” candidate.


149 posted on 11/05/2023 3:49:27 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: dfwgator

They’re all Marxists. They’ll try to take over the country, just like they try to take over everything they can.


150 posted on 11/05/2023 3:50:43 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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... market-based systems have been compatible with slavery, caste systems, colonialization (sic), war, exploration (sic - exploitation?), corruption, fraud, autocracy, ...

Ah, yes, with central control, that never happens. Never a hint of any problems with fascism or socialism or communism any time they were ever tried. No mass starvation, no genocide, no mass incarceration, no hiding the truth, no greased palms, no justice disparities, ... oh wait, am I forgetting history? Mao? Hitler? Gulags? Pravda? Mussolini? KGB?

151 posted on 11/05/2023 4:15:35 PM PST by Tellurian (To the Dems, the middle class is a festering wound. They want it amputated.)
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To: Lockbox

Markets are always right, but are seldom allowed the freedom to do so. Those that wish to control markets for their own benefit are always the problem, not the market.


152 posted on 11/05/2023 4:23:51 PM PST by Rlsau1
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To: Tired of Taxes

And the Gulag was just a happy holiday camp, of course. No markets. State planning for everything, including mass arrests of innocent people for mere pretexts, so that they had the privilege of building railroads and digging mines in Siberia, dying of exposure, exhaustion, depression, or shot by a trigger-happy guard.

By comparison, North American slavery was a sinecure.


153 posted on 11/05/2023 10:27:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: The Westerner

Who IS This Guy? Part II

By Donna Wasson
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Let’s examine what we do know about our President’s upbringing. Under the name, Barry Soetoro, he attended kindergarten through 3rd grade at Francis of Assisi Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia. His school forms state he was an Indonesian citizen and his religion was listed as Islam.
In 4th and 5th grades, he went to Beouki Primary school. Again, little Barry was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose religion was Islam. All Indonesian children are required to study religion at school, so Barry was taught how to read and write Arabic, recite proper prayers, read the Koran and study the laws of Islam.
Records show he went further and studied, “mengaji,” the recitation of the Koran in the Arabic language. This advanced class was not meant for the children of non-practicing or moderate Muslims. This was hard core teaching and memorization. In 2007, an old classmate, Rony Amiris, now manager of the Bank Mandiri in Jakarta, Indonesia, spoke with reporters about Mr. Obama.
He remembers, “His father, Barack Obama, Sr., and all his relatives in Kenya were very devout Muslims, as was Barry. He was quite religious in Islam.” However, he added that Obama “Had to change his religion if he ever intended to run for President of the United States because America would never elect a Muslim to be President.”
As if to confirm this, Obama’s campaign told the L.A. Times on 1/24/2007, that he wasn’t a ‘practicing Muslim.’ Then, on 3/14/2007, they issued the following statement: “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, (emphasis mine) and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.” I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusions about the discrepancy between those statements and the verified facts.
Mr. Obama then went to live with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, in Hawaii. His grandparents, along with his Mother, Ann Dunham, were all avowed Marxists. ‘Gramps’ enrolled Barry ‘Obama’ (why the name change?) into the very expensive and prestigious Punham School and was able to pay the tuition due to the generosity of many donors and scholarship funds that were available at the time. He was very fortunate to receive such a superior education at Punham, from the time of his enrollment until he graduated from high school.
When Obama was 10 years old, ‘Gramps’ introduced him to Frank Marshall Davis, a well known Communist Party USA propagandist, poet and pornographer, because he wanted Davis to be Barry’s role model and black father figure. Obama and Davis met weekly from the time he was 10 years old until he left for college. That’s at least 8 years of in-depth communist indoctrination from a man Obama looked up to and loves to this day.
Davis constantly bashed Wall Street, big oil, GOP tax cuts and wealthy people in general. He called for taxpayer funded universal healthcare (sounds familiar!) and public works projects. He instilled a general distrust of society into Obama. In his book, Dreams from My Father, he quotes Davis as telling him, “They’ll train you so good. You’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that ****.”
The Federal government considered Davis to be a national security threat and kept a 600 page FBI file on him. He was under investigation and surveillance for 19 years. It’s been said with a mentor like that, Obama should have had trouble getting a security clearance for an entry level government job. Instead, we elected him President. How brilliant.
Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was widely known to be of questionable moral character. She allowed Davis to photograph her in the nude on several occasions for some of his porn stories which were featured in magazines such as Exotique, Bondage and Secret Pleasures. There is serious speculation that Ann Dunham and Frank Marshall Davis had an illicit affair and that Davis is actually Obama’s biological father. You can find more documentation and research on this subject in the book, Dreams from My Real Father, by Joel Gilbert.
From about 11th grade through his first years of college, Obama admits to drinking heavily, smoking quite a bit of pot and using cocaine on a regular basis. He loved to party and even stated he was a member of the ‘chum club’ in high school; chum meaning marijuana.
After he graduated from high school, he attended Occidental College in L.A., California where he joined the ‘Students for Economic Democracy,’ a radical socialist organization associated with the Weather Underground, (founded by Bill Ayers) and even gave his first public speech for them.
The Students for Economic Democracy was started by an anti-American, Marxist activist named Tom Hayden, who went on to marry “Hanoi Jane” Fonda. In subsequent years, Mr. Hayden founded “Progressives for Obama,” a group of radicals who financially supported Obama’s Presidential candidacy.
From approximately September 1982 through May 1983, Obama made a trip to Indonesia to see his mother. From there, he went to Hyderabad, India and then spent 3 weeks in Karachi, Pakistan. Then he was off to Africa to visit his father’s family. This is remarkable because Mr. Obama was receiving scholarships to attend Occidental, yet he was able to afford to take nearly 8 months off and travel to foreign lands. Amazing!
When he returned, he started school at Columbia School of General Studies—NOT Columbia University, as is often cited. He majored in Political Science. Strangely enough, his student I.D. badge listed him as a ‘foreign student.’ http://www.theobamafile com/_images/ObamaColumbiaID.jpg
This would have qualified him for a plethora of financial aid and scholarship programs. By his own admission, he was an unremarkable student and benefited greatly from Affirmative Action. His college roommates were consistently from Pakistan.
While at Columbia, Obama studied the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which “teaches leaders to over commit government, growing it past the point of sustainability by causing crisis, while developing an organized proletariat of dependent classes and applying them to disrupt society and revolt against American freedoms. This would foment a massive change in society and bring in a new ‘egalitarian’ or neo-Marxist state.”
Wayne Allen Root is a Libertarian political TV and radio personality, author and political commentator. He was a Political Science major at Columbia the same years as Mr. Obama. However, he states, “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not kidding!”
Henry Franklin Graff, professor emeritus of history at Columbia for 46 years reports, “I have no recollection of Barack Obama at Columbia and I am sure he never attended any of my classes. For 46 years, I taught political history, diplomatic history and one of the pioneering courses on Presidential history, and every future politician of note who went through Columbia in those years took one or more of my classes—every one, that is, except Barack Obama. Nobody (other professors) I knew at Columbia even remembers Obama being there.” Well, isn’t that strange.
A spokesman for the Columbia University system, Brian Connolly, confirmed Obama spent 2 years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did NOT graduate with honors, yet he was admitted to the very competitive Harvard Law School? Simply amazing! The man MUST have had a fairy god-father to magically open doors to opportunities for him, as well as finance trips around the world, things the average college schmuck would never be able to enjoy!

Percy Sutton, the former Manhattan Borough President, states a former long time business partner, Khalid Al-Mansour, approached him in 1998 seeking financial help and recommendations to get Barack Obama into Harvard Law School. Mr. Al-Mansour was a close advisor to Saudi prince, Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men. One can conclude that between the Saudi prince, Mr. Al-Mansour, Mr. Sutton and Tom and Mary Ayers, Obama skated through Harvard Law School with nary a financial care in the world.
But why would these Islamic and Marxist America haters be willing to foot the bill for this young man who was steeped in the tenants of communism his whole life? A young man whose single minded, outspoken aspiration was to become the President of the United States? Are you starting to see a disturbing pattern?
In February 1990, Obama became the 1st black President of the Harvard Law Review, the highest student position at the school. This individual is usually picked on the basis of their grades and should be the student with the highest academic rank. However, this wasn’t the reason Mr. Obama won that coveted honor.
No, his fellow editors were pressured by the racial demands of law professor, Derrick Bell, who had insisted that Harvard Law School appoint a black woman to the faculty. Obama wrote a marginally acceptable open letter to the editors of the Harvard Law Review regarding affirmative action, and was subsequently ‘elected.’ Score another point for that fairy god-father because Obama is the only person to serve as President of Harvard Law Review without EVER publishing a single piece of signed, written work for the Review. Again, it’s simply amazing, isn’t it?
In 1991, we are told that he graduated from Harvard Law School and received a Juris Doctor degree in law, Magna Cum Laude. Evidently, he magically progressed from being an unremarkable student his whole life, to one with high honors. Naturally, there are no records or evidence to verify this claim. After graduating, he returned to Chicago to join a law firm specializing in civil rights cases and began his work as a community organizer.
His law firm represented Antoin Rezko, a Syrian real estate developer who ended up being convicted on several fraud and bribery charges. In 2005, Obama bought a home with the assistance of Mr. Rezko, in the upscale Chicago neighborhood of Kenwood District for $1.65 million, which was far less than the asking price.
Coincidentally, an Iraqi born billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, loaned Rezko $3.5 million only three weeks before Obama closed on his home. Mr. Rezko and Obama had met with Mr. Auchi on several occasions in previous months. It’s another miracle that despite Michelle Obama’s constant diatribes about all the student loans they owed, the Obama’s were still able to afford this home. Gotta love that fairy god-father!
Have you noticed that the vast majority of friends and associates Barack Obama cultivated throughout his life have been either America hating Muslims or America hating communists? Want more proof? Ok… Paul Krenger, Ph.D, wrote, The Communist and Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. The following information is from this book.
William Patterson was a hardcore communist who helped plan the Kremlin People’s Friendship University in Russia, which groomed third world revolutionaries and some of the world’s leading terrorists including, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Carlos the Jackal, professional assassin and Mohamed Boudia, top figure in the PLO. Mr. Boudia was subsequently placed in Europe by the KGB to work with Soviet backed terror cells and was involved in the murder of the Jewish Olympians in Munich, 1972.
Mr. Patterson was Frank Marshall Davis’ mentor; Frank Marshall Davis was Barack Obama’s mentor. Frank Marshall Davis went on to found American Peace Mobilization, one of the most seditious communist fronts to ever operate in the United States. Davis worked with Robert Taylor, Valerie Jarrett’s grandfather. Valerie Jarrett is Obama’s TOP advisor in the White House. She barks, he jumps.
Davis also worked with Vernon Jarrett, Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law, who was involved in communist circles. Other associates of Davis were Harry and David Canter, Chicago communists who mentored David Axelrod, who is also a senior advisor to President Obama. What a coincidence, huh?!
The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and other Anti-American Extremists, by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott states the following:
“Like the Manchurian Candidate, Barack Obama is a powerful politician whose true past has been intentionally obscured and who has become the vehicle for implementing a radical agenda. Obama is backed by and deeply tied to an anti-American fringe nexus that, as this book will show, was instrumental not only in mentoring Obama and helping him to build his political career, but essentially in overthrowing the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and in securing and powerfully influencing Obama’s Presidency. These radical associates not only continue to influence Obama and White House strategy, but some are directly involved in creating the very policies intended to undermine or radically transform the U.S.A. For instance, one of the founders of Bill Ayers Weather Underground anti-American terrorist group, serves in an organization called the Apollo Alliance, which helped to craft Obama’s $787 billion ‘stimulus bill.’”
Like I said before, it’s now August and time to WAKE UP before America is ruined and turned into a communist state. Obama is backed by a seemingly endless supply of money from George Soros, an Illuminati Globalist hell bent on destroying America and her citizens.
People always wonder why America isn’t mentioned in Biblical prophecy concerning the last days. God has removed His hand of blessing and protection from this wicked, abortion hungry, homosexual loving, depraved country. Can you blame Him? The forces of hell are entrenched deep within both parties of our government, Republican AND Democrat. Most of Congress, as well as the White House are Globalists who are feverishly working to bring America to her knees. And they are succeeding.
We can stop, or hopefully at least slow their plans this November. If we are fortunate enough to actually have a Presidential election before the Communist-in-Chief declares martial law, transforming America into a police state, we had better vote these demons out of office; all of them, but especially the Globalist puppet, Barack Obama. He is dangerous. He is a consummate LIAR. He desperately wants to ruin America and destroy the middle class. And he absolutely HATES you and your family! He is a malignant narcissist who’s convinced he is superior and we the people don’t deserve our freedoms and prosperity. That’s what he’s been taught his entire life and a snake can’t change its stripes.
Look at his birth and upbringing. Born to a Black, part ARAB, Kenyan, British Citizen, Muslim, alcoholic, polygamous, womanizing, State Department designated Undesirable Mooching Alien, absentee Father and an underage, to bestow her American Citizenship on him, mother and adopted by an Indonesian Muslim STEPFATHER. ALL members of BOTH his Paternal Families are MUSLIMS even his Kenyan Grandmother, who (Obama’s LYING Election Committee told us was a Christian) returned (AFTER his election of course) from the completing the Haj at Mecca.
He was brought up and schooled in his ‘formative years’ as a Muslim in BOTH the State and the Catholic run MULTI FAITH schools he attended in Jakarta. BTW when Barry was in Indonesia you had to be an Indonesian CITIZEN to go to State School, so maybe THAT’S why the Passport, College and Student application, results and loan records are very carefully and jealously HIDDEN. His contemporaries at school, one of whom is the current head of Garuda Airlines the Indonesian national airline, remember him as a devout Mosque going MUSLIM.
He took KORANIC STUDIES, a subject ONLY Muslims take at school, and MENGAGI ( the study of the correct pronunciation of Koranic Arabic and which only DEVOUT Muslims usually bother with) at the Mosque a fact he himself ADMITS in his book DREAMS. He is on record as saying ‘If the Political will goes against them I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS” and also “the Muslim call to prayer is one of the MOST beautiful sounds on earth”. I heard this sound in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. It sounds like a “Tennis shoe in a dryer”. There is nothing beautiful about it.
He can also recite, and has frequently been heard to do so, the Shahada in perfectly accented Koranic Arabic, must be a result of his MENGAGI studies. According to Muslims anyone who says the Shahada, which calls Allah the PARAMOUNT God (which betrays Islams POLYTHEISTIC roots or else why say ‘Paramount’ unless there are there other LESSER Gods????) and claims Mohammad as his messenger , IS A MUSLIM. Also, NO “liberal Christain” would ever state “THAT THE FUTURE DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM WHO


154 posted on 11/07/2023 11:40:22 PM PST by afchief
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To: afchief

Threads about Obama (ever since 2003, the thread below) reminds me of the booklet “The Revolution Was” - written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal. That entire booklet one can interchange Obama for FDR.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

The following are excerpts from the booklet regarding revolutionary thinking, and who could bring it to fruition (FDR, and for our times - Obama):

There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress.

Americans generally associated dangerous doctrine with bad printing, rude grammar, and stealthy distribution. Here was revolutionary doctrine in well printed and well written books....A little communism on the newsstand like that might be gad for us, in fact, regarded as a twinge of pain in a robust, somewhat reckless social body. One ought to read it, perhaps, just to know. But one had tried, and what dreary stuff it had turned out to be!

To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing, that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin....

A society so largely founded on material success and the rewards of individualism in a system of free competitive enterprise would be liable to underestimate both the intellectual content of the revolutionary thesis and the quality of the revolutionary mind that was evolving in a disaffected and envious academic world....

The revolutionary mind that did at length evolve was one of really superior intelligence, clothed with academic dignity, always sure of itself, supercilious and at ease in all circumstances....

Which of these brilliant young men in spectacles was of the cult and which was of the cabal if there was a cabal one never knew. Indeed, it was possible that they were not sure of it among themselves, a time having come when some were only playing with the thought of extremes while others were in deadly earnest, all making the same sounds. This was the beginning of mask and guise.

The scientific study of revolution included of course analysis of opportunity. First and always the master of revolutionary technic is an opportunist. He must know opportunity when he sees it in the becoming; he must know how to stalk it, how to let it ripen, how to adapt his means to the realities. The basic ingredients of opportunity are few; nearly always it is how they are mixed that matters. But the one indispensable ingredient is economic distress, and if there is enough of that the mixture will take care of itself.

The Great Depression as it developed here was such an opportunity as might have been made to order. The economic distress was relative, which is to say that at the worst of it living in this country was better than living almost anywhere else in the world. The pain, nevertheless, was very acute; and much worse than any actual hurt was a nameless fear, a kind of active despair, that assumed the proportions of a national psychosis.

Seizures of that kind were not unknown in American history. Indeed, they were characteristic of the American temperament. But never before had there been one so hard and never before had there been the danger that a revolutionary elite would be waiting to take advantage of it.

This revolutionary elite was nothing you could define as a party. It had no name, no habitat, no rigid line. The only party was the Communist Party, and it was included, but its attack was too obvious and its proletarianism too crude, and moreover, it was under the stigma of not belonging. Nobody could say that about the elite above. It did belong, it was eminently respectable, and it knew the American scene. What it represented was a quantity of bitter intellectual radicalism infiltrated from the top downward as a doctorhood of professors, writers, critics, analysts, advisers, administrators, directors of research, and so on a prepared revolutionary intelligence in spectacles.

There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.” There was one idea in which all differences could be resolved, namely, the idea of a transfer of power. For that a united front; after that, anything. And the wine of communion was a passion to play upon history with a scientific revolutionary technic.

The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus would be needed. The elite could produce one. And that was something the Communist Party could not hope to do.

End of long excerpt.

Below is what wiki has to say about “Gracchus” (applicable to both FDR and Obama:

The Gracchi brothers were two brothers at the start of the late Roman Republic..They served in the plebeian tribunates... They have been received as well-born and eloquent advocates for social reform ....their terms in the tribunate precipitated a series of domestic crises which are viewed as unsettling the Roman Republic and contributing to its collapse.


155 posted on 11/07/2023 11:59:42 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: afchief

OBAMA, 2023:

“But just because an economic system generated wealth and innovation doesn’t mean it guarantees a good society,” Obama said. “Because from the outset, market-based systems have been compatible with slavery, caste systems, colonialization, war, exploration, corruption, fraud, autocracy, the poisoning of our natural environment.”

From the previous link and the booklet “The Revolution Was”, FDR and the New Deal:

In Russia capitalism, such as it was there, could be attacked directly. The people were not attached to it in any way. In this country it was very different. Americans did not hate capitalism. They might criticise it harshly for its sins, most of which were sins of self-betrayal, but its true symbols nevertheless were deeply imbedded in the American tradition, and, moreover, a great majority of the people were in one way or another little capitalists. To have said, “Down with capitalism!” or, “Down with free private enterprise!” would have been like saying, “Down with the Constitution!” The attack, therefore, had to be oblique.

In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1933, the President said: “Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay. has fallen;... the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no market for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.... Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance.... Nature still offers her bounty. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed,... have admitted their failure and have abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money-changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.... They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.... Yes, the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.”

There was the pattern and it never changed. The one enemy, blameable for all human distress, for unemployment, for low wages, for the depression of agriculture, . for want in the midst of potential plenty who was he? The money-changer in the temple. This was a Biblical symbol and one of the most hateful With what modern symbol did this old and hateful one associate? With the Wall Street banker, of course; and the Wall Street banker was the most familiar and the least attractive symbol of capitalism.

Therefore, capitalism, obliquely symbolized by the money-changer scourged out of the temple, was entirely to blame; capitalism was the one enemy, the one object to be hated. But never was it directly stacked or named; always it was the old order that was attacked. The old order became a symbol of all human distress. “We cannot go back to the old order,” said the President. And this was a very hateful counter symbol, because the old order, never really defined, did in fact associate in the popular mind with the worst debacle in the history of capitalism.

It was never the capitalist that was directly attacked. Always it was the economic royalist, the brigand of the skyscrapers, the modern tory all three hateful counter symbols. The true symbols of the three competitive systems in which people believed were severely let alone. The technique in every case was to raise against them counter symbols. Thus, against the inviolability of private property was raised the symbol of those who would put property rights above human rights; and against all the old symbols of individualism and self-reliance was raised the attractive counter symbol of security.

To bring hatred to bear upon the profit motive there were two techniques. One was to say, as the President said in his first inaugural, that social values were more noble than mere monetary prost, as if in any free scheme you could have social gains without plenty of mere monetary profit; the other was to speak only of great profits, as if in a free profit and lass system you could have little profits and little losses without big profits and big losses.


156 posted on 11/08/2023 12:13:11 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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