You know my favourite philosophers are Satan and Jesus.
I think everyone’s missing the point about her Mao reference.
She doesn’t admire his mass killings. She admires his willingness to DO ANYTHING to win.
This is the world of community activism. I’ve come to realize they live in an alternate universe I didn’t even know existed. In that world laws are merely an inconvenience, something to be skirted or used against one’s enemies. Think: ACORN’s total disregard for keeping public money out of political coffers. Extorting banks, Wall Street, mortgage companies etc by protesting in their lobbies and even in front of their private homes. Auto company bondholders were squashed by ignoring bankruptcy law and tradition. Fraudulent voter registrations...what’s wrong with THAT?!
As for what they do...they don’t produce anything. All their energies are used to collect ever more taxpayers’ money. Then they spend it to elect more politicians who will give them even more money. Theirs is a grievance society. They’ve taken civil disobedience to a new level, one where they simply ignore the law altogether.
And now they’re in the White House, the Justice Department, all over the government. Like Mao, they ADMIRE those willing to use rough tactics to crush an opponent.
When she mentioned Mao, I started thinking about this. Did Mao inspire Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals? And could Alinksky’s tactics have been born anywhere but Chicago...a place where political favors are traded like handshakes?
Now we have it all in our federal gov’t: Mao’s deadly tactics, Alinsky’s rules, Chicago’s hardball politics. It’s clear to me their objective is to re-make in Washington what they have in Chicago: a patronage based, taxpayer funded political machine with the power to make enemies “disappear”. Their goal is to make themselves a permanent ruling majority. Justice won’t prosecute vote fraud. Electoral offices will be corrupted. The Census will be dirty. And they’ll create tens of millions of new reliable voters when they give citizenship to illegals.
It might just work. It did for Mao. That’s why they admire him.
In typical Obama admin fashion, mentioning Mao and Mother Teresa in the same sentence adds insult to injury.
“What does it say about Barack Obama and his devout supporters that his White House communications director is a big fan of Mao Zedong?”
It means the ‘bamaphiles dream of arresting, torturing and murdering their political opposition, but we already knew that.
Democrats decided to use religion (social justice) to widen their tent with Christian voters after their last stunning Presidential defeat. Citing Mother Theresa as a political philosopher is just a ruse to legitimize/sanitize her Maoist ideology. Sadly, this tactic is working as many churches are implementing anti capitalistic social justice tenants as a primary Christian teaching.