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September 3, 2009

'A Radical's Radical, With An Authoritarian Impulse'

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The fact that the title of this piece, alone, for most Americans instantly conveys the name of the person it is describing should be sufficiently alarming in itself. After all, we're talking about the president of the United States of America which the majority of Americans who voted for him never believed that he was either a radical or that he had an authoritarian impulse, or he would never have been elected.

However, with only six months in office, Barack Obama has signaled his true agenda to radically change the American way of life, destroy many of its freedoms, and put government in control of "every aspect of our lives." While most Americans more or less slept through the bailouts, financial institution takeovers, the GM takeover, and cap-and-trade, the wake-up call finally came when Americans realized Obama intended to radically change healthcare, and over the summer conservatives, independents, and moderate Democrats - lead for the most part by conservatives, finally took to the streets and townhalls in protest, with some success in causing Obama and the far-left Democrats to re-think some of their agenda following a precipitous drop in Barack Obama's approval ratings. But as Quin Hillyer warns in his excellent piece at American Spectator, today, Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter, and American's success in August should not hide the reality that our backs are still against the wall. Obama still owns the upper hand. If we make any major mistake, he will use that hand as a fist to smash the conservative movement to bits.

As Hillyer notes, while every other president before Barack Obama has intended at most to achieve change within the American political system, Obama wants to change the system itself. He is a radical's radical, with an authoritarian impulse who feeds on social unrest - it is both his modus operandi and his mid-term goal. The more unrest, the greater the crisis; the greater the crisis, the more excuse he has to use and consolidate central power in order to completely remake society. In other words, Barack Obama is far worse then Jimmy Carter, is operating in a far different political and technical environment, and has a far more radical, sinister agenda.

Hillyer writes:

[...] ... consider the differences in political circumstances between Obama and Carter. Unlike Carter, Obama does not face a Kennedy-led left wing of his party that despises him. Unlike Carter, Obama did not take office by an incredibly slim majority vote so close that a few thousands votes in two states would have swung the whole election. Unlike Carter, Obama took office in the middle of a crisis he could blame on his predecessor and coming off an unpopular war that he could blame almost entirely on the Republican Party. On the right, Carter faced a conservative movement (even if not a Republican Party) unified and energized by an inspirational leader -- but no similar, single spokesman today galvanizes conservatives like Ronald Reagan did then. Carter also did not have a nationwide movement kept together by a tool like the Internet, and did not have billionaires behind his general aims the way Obama has George Soros.

Finally, Obama has the advantage of a more ethnically diverse nation that has far less of a common culture and less of a common appreciation of shared socio-political history and values. Why is that an advantage? Because it gives him more leeway to make outlandish claims, and still have huge pluralities believe him, than Carter could ever hope for.

More important than all that, though, is that Obama's personal skills, aims, and training are like nothing we have ever seen before in the White House. Every other president before him has intended at most to achieve change within the American political system. Obama wants to change the system itself. He is a radical's radical, with an authoritarian impulse. His Alinskyite training means that social unrest doesn't unnerve him; it plays right into his hands. Social unrest is both his modus operandi and his mid-term goal. The more unrest, the greater the crisis; the greater the crisis, the more excuse he has to use and consolidate central power in order to completely remake society.

[...] Already we see a cult of personality around Obama, one deliberately encouraged by the Obama political operation. Already we see him push for centralizing, fascistic economic powers. Already we see him creating "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the regular military, complete with uniformed youths (and even senior citizens) formed into "cadres." And in order to make AmeriCorps less answerable to the public, Obama fired the Inspector General trying to blow the whistle on nefarious AmeriCorps activities. Now he is using AmeriCorps and the National Endowment for the Arts to politically agitate for his "recovery agenda."

And that's not to mention the Big Brother-like data-mining and reporting of "casual conversations" to a White House website, or the creepy address to all the nation's school children -- or the continued public trashing, by the permanent Obama campaign known as Organizing For America, of ordinary citizen protesters as "Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists."

Obama also is politicizing the Census; giving contracts to ACORN; letting a recognized hate group like the New Black Panthers go free; undermining the CIA at every turn, radicalizing the Supreme Court; re-orienting the civil rights division of the Justice Department; appointing more "czars" than anybody can keep track of and who, unlike Cabinet members, do not answer to Congress; resisting transparency on TARP bailout funds; refusing to enforce financial reporting requirements on union political organizers; and doing all sorts of other things designed, as are the items above, to consolidate power, tilt the deck, and rig the political rules in his favor for the long haul.

Take the time to read it all ....

Posted by Richard at September 3, 2009 7:34 AM

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