“The Revolution Ate Its Children” - or How The Obama Experiment In Marxism Is Doomed

Flopping Aces ^ | 06-21-11 | Skookum

[Starman417]

The Storming Of The Bastille

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil”
- Maximilien Francois Robespierre

Since the French Revolution, the idea of Left and Right political persuasions have been key designations for political debate. Of course the French Revolution ended like most revolutions in a virtual bloodbath. Throughout history, most revolutions become the spoiled children of greedy desperate men or laced up in a ligature of half baked Marxist ideology.

We Americans had a revolution that was different; we had an intellectual vigor among a group of men, known as the Founding Fathers, that has never seen a comparison. In spirited debated and behind closed doors, they hammered out the principles that have guided our country, in an unequaled spirit of Liberty, for over two hundred years.

Without malice or greed, the Founding Fathers realized that what was to be determined by the French Revolution as Left or Right sides of the aisle gains a monopoly of control in the governing philosophy, tyranny and failure will follow. Even though the debate of ideas varies from tedious to mean spirited debate, it is imperative that this bloodless war be waged to avoid a tyranny of philosophy and the subsequent stagnation of ideas that leads to an ultimate failure

The most Liberal Democrats scored a monopoly in 2008 and exercised their advantage with strong armed tactics that they expect us to forget about now. These tactics frightened Americans of all levels of political thought, at least those not blinded with ideological fervor, for once a political philosophy becomes completely dominant, government loses its hybrid vigor, becomes stagnant and dies the death of ideological blindness.

Reveling in the arrogance of his victory and the inexperience of a Leftist Ideologue from academia with no real world experience, Obama chose to monopolize the government with his policies and ideas, while ignoring the opposition. The government and Washington became known as the Obamanation as we were bombarded with and absorbed Leftist principles and policy like never before in our history. Government quickly became the solution and epitome of the benevolent dictator. More and more aspects of our lives were to be controlled by the Obamanation; yet, we couldn't advance fast enough to keep up with the Obama Doctrine.

Many astute business men, the ones who don't hang off a hind teat of sow hog of government subsidies in a perpetual state of entitlement of the parasitically perverse, but the true entrepreneurs, the ones who actually stoke the engines of our economy and industry, realized that if the country had not been in a recession and instead was enjoying a boom economy, we would have stumbled even deeper into the quagmire of of Marxism.

[labette]

"Hopefully, it will be at least another two hundred years before Americans embark on another epic disaster like Obama’s Marxism."

I believe it was a FReeper who recently speculated it would be eight years, at best.

As for quoting Robespierre, there is a great story here. He made the fatal mistake of thinking he could ride the wave of anarchy just a little longer.

[frogjerk]

Bump for later

[Texas Fossil]

Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top

May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny

May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals

May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet

May they all be soldiers

May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders

Denis Diderot

Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782

[Little Ray]

Marxism is ALWAYS doomed. The question is, “Do we go over the cliff with it?”
Its not looking good.

[Pollster1]

Since the French Revolution, the idea of Left and Right political persuasions have been key designations for political debate.

I'd like to see the designations "left" and "right" experience a well-deserved and permanent death. There is no left and right in practical terms. The real, meaningful spectrum is from anarchy (chaos due to too little government) through prosperity (freedom under the minimum government needed to protect citizens from predators and parasites both within and surrounding their society) to statism (slavery under a tyrant with any label, whether national socialist, soviet socialist, Communist, fascist, or Obamaist). There is no real difference between the communist tyrant who crushes working people while giving lip service to serving their long run needs and the fascist tyrant who crushes working people while giving lip service to serving the state. Both sets of tyrants behave essentially identically, they just promote slavery with different sales pitches.

concentration camp

gulag

death panel

No, thank you. I'll take freedom over slavery, even if the slavery is promised to be benign and to provide the greatest good for the greatest number. God gave me free will, and no one on the "right" or the "left" has the right or the power to take that away. Does anyone sensible think it makes a difference which side of the political spectrum a dictator claims to follow if the outcomes are identical?

Note to Newsweek:
No, we're not.