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To: Retired Greyhound
The "change" he peddles is not new. We've seen it before. It is change that diminishes individual liberty for the soft authoritarianism of socialism. It is a populist appeal that disguises government mandated wealth redistribution as tax cuts for the middle class...and exploits human imperfection as a justification for a massive expansion of centralized government. Obama's appeal to the middle class is an appeal to the "the proletariat," as an infamous philosopher once described it, about which a mythology has been created.

Outstanding point. By simply chainging "working class" to "middle class" Obama has made blatent Marxism acceptable to large numbers of Americans. Combined with his use of the legal system to attempt to squash opponents, and his use of radical bullies like ACORN, he reminds me of an American Hugo Chavez. If the Dems are successful in their agenda of outlawing firearms, packing the courts with left wing acrivist judges, abolishing talk radio, and now replacing Americans' private retirement funds with a government run "defined benefit" plan, it will be a very long, dark night in our history.

5 posted on 10/25/2008 11:50:32 PM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: Hugin

“If the Dems are successful in their agenda of outlawing firearms, packing the courts with left wing acrivist judges, abolishing talk radio, and now replacing Americans’ private retirement funds with a government run ‘defined benefit’ plan, it will be a very long, dark night in our history.”

Yup. But some Americans will fight back — literally. They realize that there is no future in being a subject at best, but more likely a slave; where they cannot enjoy the fruits of their hard labor because a government run by fascists is taking their earnings from them and giving them away to deadbeats and scofflaws; where they no longer are individuals with an individual’s dreams and desires and ambitions, but instead are just a part of a collective, nameless and ignored; that they no longer have the right to voice their own opinions, but most speak only what they are allowed to speak, and hear only what they are allowed to hear.

You’re damn right some of us will fight. Better to die a free man in the good fight than to live as a nothing, only to die the slow, frustrating and dehumanizing death of a slave.

Patrick Henry: “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the cost of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”


28 posted on 10/26/2008 4:17:17 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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