Obama Is Remaking America Into Socialism

Human Events ^ | 06/02/2009 | Phyllis Schlafly

[Graybeard58]

The younger generation probably doesn't realize that the word socialism means and connotes a system that is profoundly un-American. Socialism has virtually disappeared from our national lexicon since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed because of Ronald Reagan's policies and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party was destroyed by the United States in World War II.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines socialism as a system of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned by a centralized government that plans and controls the economy. Both Webster and Random House identify socialism as a "Marxist theory."

Socialism requires a totalitarian system -- that gives the ruling gang the power to distribute the fruits of other people's labor to its political pals. That is what is happening to the United States as President Obama proceeds with his goal of "remaking America."

Although the pro-Obama media have been propping up non-Republicans to lecture us about which topics Republicans are permitted to discuss, we are reminded of the old story about the candidate who challenged his opponent: "Let's have a clean campaign; if you don't tell any lies about me, I won't tell the truth about you."

Obama acolytes and their media sycophants have been telling lies about Republicans (starting with Gitmo and the CIA), so it's time for Republicans to tell the truth about Obama's dangerous and malicious Marxist policies to spread the wealth of taxpayers to non-taxpayers.

The Republican National Committee (RNC), which for years had been a stuffy establishment appendage, started to tell the truth on May 20 when it passed a resolution nailing the Obama administration for "proposing, passing and implementing socialist programs through federal legislation" and pushing our country "towards European-style socialism and government control." Nine "Whereases" spell out the political indictment in detail.

The RNC charges the Democratic Party with passing "trillions of dollars in new government spending, all with strings attached in order to control nearly every aspect of American life," "plans to nationalize the banking, financial and healthcare industries," "massive government bailouts for the mortgage and auto industries" and "paying states to increase their welfare caseloads" by reducing work requirements and increasing handouts.

Another "Whereas" accuses the Democratic Party of "direct income redistribution" by taking taxes from one group of people and giving "direct cash transfers to another group of people who pay no federal income taxes." The RNC accurately accuses the Democratic Party of taking us in a "European direction," a path the American people have no desire to travel.

The RNC, which is the governing body of the Republican Party, has helpfully spelled out the differences between the two political parties. The "clear and obvious purpose" of the Democratic majority in Congress is to implement "socialist programs through federal legislation" and to restructure American society "along socialist ideals."

Do the Republicans have an alternate vision of America's future? You bet they do. The Republicans recognize that free markets and free men, hard work and free enterprise, are the bedrock of American success and the only way to restore prosperity.

Unable to defend the march toward socialism, Treasury Secretary Geithner just told The Washington Post that the RNC resolution is "ridiculous."

Obama's takeover of the American auto industry is so breathtaking in scope and power that it proves all the RNC's accusations about socialism. The takeover was followed by orders to close 789 local Chrysler dealers, notices to 1,100 General Motors franchises that they will be shut down by next year and estimates that total dealer shutdowns will rise to 3,000.

Some of these local dealerships have been family-owned for generations. The Chrysler and GM dealership closings are estimated to eliminate 187,000 jobs, which is more than the number of people who work for the two automakers.

Now we can see the icing on the cake for the politicians who use economic dictatorship to punish those who resist socialist planners. Nearly every one of the closed local dealerships had donated to Republican candidates, almost none was an Obama contributor, and some dealerships owned by Democrats are not getting the ax.

These closings come after Obama's extraordinary cash and stock favoritism to one of his principal campaign supporters, the United Auto Workers union. The car czar, Steve Rattner, was a top Democratic fundraiser (surprise, surprise!).

Obama seems to be captivated by the un-American notion of running the country through Russian-style czars empowered to issue czarist-style ukases. He has already named about 20 czars (more than the Russians had over four centuries), and his latest is a cyber czar.

This year's deficit will be $1.841 trillion -- $89 billion more than previously estimated. It's so difficult to explain to the American people the gigantic dimensions of what Obama is doing that we are suffering from what has been labeled "insensitivity to scope."

We hope the RNC resolution will clarify Obama's goals and actions.

[ETL]

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
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A Landslide Mandate For Change

Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (Latter-Rain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[pray4liberty]

Wake up Phyllis, half the country wants their bennies, they voted the Great Promiser in thinking he will be the Great Deliverer, leading them into their Promised Land.

They will be in for a shock with the changes he has coming and even more shocked when they realize they have to pay for it.

[EAGLE7]

Obama is the result of decades of Marxist infiltration and propaganda in the USA.....

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov

[rlmorel]

Wake up Phyllis? She sees the future all too clearly. One of the few who does and isn’t afraid to speak out.

She has never been afraid to speak out. More’s the pity she couldn’t run for office even at her age. She would mop the floor with them.

[GreyMountainReagan]

COMMUNISTIC DICTATORSHIP.

If 0bmam is re-elected it is over for America.

Room 101 for all of us.

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[GreyMountainReagan]

Wake up Phyllis, half the country wants their bennies,

Wake up Phyllis?....

I think she is trying to wake us (America) up.

We all need to speak out.

Loudly. Immediately.

[lawnguy]

I am already nostalgic for the Dubya days of 5% unemployment and a relatively puny deficit.

And actual economic growth.

[A message]

Whereas Republicans have slopped at the pork trough too long themselves.

Whereas Republicans need to fight like Berserkers against 0bama’s Socialist/Marxist agenda.

Whereas the Republican leadership( if there is such a thing) need to reign in the RINOs that voted for TARP/Stimulus and all the other boondoogle debt exploding legislation we’ve recently seen.

Whereas I’ll believe the Republicans when they start to actually lead this country back to smaller government.

[odin2008]

We have seen his play book before...

[Dick Bachert]

Something evil this way comes as “What is past is prologue.”

“What good fortune for the state that people do not think!”
Adolph Hitler 1933
(Did Hitler know the Obama voters?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7lGqWRnls

When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
Adolph Hitler Speech November 1933

(After multiple generations of indoctrination of our kids in the government schools, Obama – or a Marxist clone of him — was inevitable.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein

[EAGLE7]

“I think she is trying to wake us (America) up.
We all need to speak out.
Loudly. Immediately.”

Amen brother. However Whittaker Chambers, Bella Dodd, Sen. Joe Mccarthy, Yuri Bezmenov and others have tried and failed to wake America up. Most of the population doesn’t care or doesn’t want to know what has occurred.

Like the Romans that were content with bread and circus, we are a society that has sold our soul for the creature comforts of materialism. Not that there is anything wrong with comforts per se. But we have given, and continue to give, our freedoms up for it. Whether we know it or not.

[IrishPennant]

So you are ready to give up and let it die, or are you ready to find a way to help me tell the masses??? The TIPPING POINT has come. Are you selling out to defeat or still an American?

[pray4liberty]

Most of the population doesn’t care or doesn’t want to know what has occurred.

You said it better than I could. This is what Phyllis needs to wake up to...that the half of America who voted for Obumbo don't care! They want him, and everything that goes with him. They will make excuses for him and worship him.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with Phyllis, but she is swimming upstream.

[EAGLE7]

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein

So true. As Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”

I truly believe, as have others, that the only hope for the US is the Church. Even Communists recognize that the Church is the main thing that stands in its way in winning over the hearts of men. Whittaker Chambers said that the only way to defeat the communists is with an equal or greater faith then they have.

Funny, but after all is said and done it appears that Christ through his Church, is the answer and the only salvation. Unfortunately most of the Church refuses to engage the enemy in battle or even know there’s a war going on.

[DanZanRyu]

Well, the American people are willing to give socialism a try in this economic climate. I know people who voted for Reagan in the 1980s voted for Obama last year. They were angry with Bush’s “financial crisis”. They felt it was time to try something new.

[GreyMountainReagan]

Whether we know it or not.

'but..but..but..but..but..

we need to give 0bama a chance.'

Yeah, right.

he needs to be impeached.

Looks like RM 101 for me.

[EAGLE7]

Surrender?? HELL NO!!! Let me know how I can help and I surely will!! (They MAY take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom!)

But I am afraid that simply telling the masses may not be enough. Like Yuri Bezmenov explained, those who have been indoctrinated will not believe their freedoms are lost until they feel the bottom of the boots on their necks.

[QBFimi]

Check out this Pravda article...

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/