Posted on 09/07/2010 11:11:12 AM PDT by markomalley
Sorry, but I can't allow Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' statement that "we have a lot of re-education to do" slip by without comment. It's amusing when avowed leftists don't even recognize the Marxist buzzwords they're sputtering.
Sebelius is attributing the public's vehement opposition to Obamacare to "misinformation given on a 24/7 basis. ... Unfortunately," she said, "there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in (the Obamacare law) and what isn't." She is especially peeved about the vulnerability of seniors, who "have been a target of a lot of the misinformation." (The target of Obama's misinformation, perhaps.)
The most remarkable thing is that Sebelius didn't actually use the term "re-education" accidentally or out of school. Perhaps unwittingly, she's quite comfortable using a term long associated with tyrannical regimes. As one of Obama's chief lieutenants, she obviously believes this administration knows better than the public what is good for them.
Indeed, one of the ongoing ironies of liberalism is that it holds itself out as open-minded, democratic and representative of the common man, when it is more comfortable dictating to and indoctrinating the masses. Just look at our universities alone if you need quick, verifiable proof. But let's consider a few other examples of this administration's employing that mindset.
When an audience member at a forum at the Kennedy School of Government told Obama adviser and close confidant Valerie Jarrett that Obama's ideas are too complex to be digested by the unwashed, she didn't protest. The participant affectionately proposed that the White House express its ideas in an easier-to-comprehend form, such as printing simple booklets -- I assume replete with large print and colorful pictures.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“She is especially peeved about the vulnerability of seniors, who “have been a target of a lot of the misinformation.”
She is especially peeved that the flagrant $250 bribes doled out to seniors haven’t convinced enough of them to drink the Obama Kool-Aid.
Maybe she could hand out packs of Marlboros...
The way the left can remain in power is to keep the populace as dumb and stupid as they think they are anyway.
Commies and liberals rely on indoctrination, propaganda and brainwashing to add to their ranks and they get that by dumbing down education and graduating illiterates so that you wind up with a nation of zombie sheep.
‘Re-Education’ implies that they were educated to begin with!!
Yes well, when you pass a bill over two-thousand pages in length, which no one in Congress even bothered to read, and which the general populace wasn't given the opportunity to examine, some confusion may result.
global warming = global cooling
death panel = life care
abortion = prenatal care
evil = republican
racism = not voting for obama
slavery = not obeying the DC aristocrats.
Re-education has been going on for years. Obama and his hoods have just taken that to a higher and more evil level.
“Maybe she could hand out packs of Marlboros”
Well, I think even a moron would see that as a transparent effort to achieve cost containment via early mortality, which is to say I don’t think even Kathleen Sebelius would stoop to such an obvious ploy.
I attended a session at the American Political Science Association annual meeting last week in which a presenter addressed the question of whether the “public option” was simply a Trojan Horse for single-payer on the installment plan: “Of course it was.”
Another speaker conceded Americans don’t like to pay taxes but claimed that Americans liked many of the components of Obamacare. Thus, the trick always has been how to give Americans what they allegedly want while hiding its true costs.
Wish I had these stunningly frank comments on tape.
“Obama’s ideas are too complex to be digested by the unwashed
Do they think the Ph.Ds among us are “unwashed” too? They really live in a fantasy, don’t they?
I wonder if the re education includes *the rack* and *the iron maiden* along with water boarding....
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