Obama’s Fascist Agenda

It’s impossible for one to look long at Barack Obama the candidate with a critical eye and not see contradiction. Upon my very first view of Obama’s website I encountered quite an obvious contradiction. His inane mantra “yes we can” is neatly disposed with, intimating that the only way we can accomplish anything is through the auspices of the federal government. For what Barack Obama discovered, according to his biography on his website, was the only way he could really make a difference is by going into politics. Concerning his work as “community organizer with a church-based group” the website declares, “that group had some success” (emphasis mine) “but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.” There you have it, the left-wing fascist impulse in a nutshell. As Benito Mussolini said, “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” Because if it isn’t done through the government, with sufficient red tape and significant inefficiency it doesn’t count. Here was foolish, idealistic Barack Obama thinking he could ”make a difference” by working with a nonprofit! How can someone who would seem to be for all (or at least most of) the work that these nonprofit groups do declare that they aren’t “truly improving the lives of people in that community and other communities”? Because if it isn’t done in the context of government, it doesn’t matter. All within the state. It is only through the power of the state that people can be forced to be charitable to the extent others think they should be. And that’s where the fascism is really apparent, when the state is elevated above individual liberty. And while he recently did a 180 and declared that he “always believed that the second amendment protects the rights of individuals to bear arms” he declared that Washington D.C.’s ban on handguns was “common sense” the same phrase which he uses time and time again when describing his stricter gun control laws. All within the state. Obama wants to expand virtually every government program. This might seem like hyperbole, but it’s demonstrably not. In fact, to say that Barack Obama plans to expand government programs is like saying Sam Walton planned to expand Walmart in the 80’s. Indeed, Obama’s proposed spending increases are estimated at $287 billion. Source: http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/investorcentric/2008/02/presidential-candidate-budget-analysis.html
But Obama’s government increases–like any good fascist–aren’t limited to spending. Indoctrinating young people is where it’s really at when it comes to any good fascist administration. And Barack has indoctrination programs in spades, and they’re all aimed squarely at our youth. And how is this accomplished? By “encouraging” youth to become active in nonprofit organizations (which happen to be hot beds of socialist group think-ing) or as his website overtly states, “requiring 100 hours of service in college.” And I thought we elimated plantations in this country. But here we are again, forcing poor black people (and of every race) to work without pay. Or as Jackie Chiles put it, “You don’t have to help anybody. That’s what this country’s all about.” Perhaps it would be over the top to call them the Obama youth. Perhaps, but I’ve never been one for understatement. The concept certainly poses an interesting question: would their charity work matter because it is sanctioned by the government, or wouldn’t it “truly improve” people’s lives because it doesn’t have the power of coersion that comes through the power of the federal government?

Obama’s racist card

The ever so magnanimous and open minded Barack Obama declared that the racist Republican party will undoubtedly run a racist campain against him, the poor helpless millionaire with 4 times as much money to spend as his racist competitor. This is your uniter, the one who was going to bring the USA out of its racist past into a progressive uptopia. The same man who just months ago declared his “unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.” Words we want to hear, no doubt. But does he truly believe them? Well, it looks like if you are a Republican, the answer is no. Certainly it is nothing you would have heard in the church which he attended for twenty years until it finally became disadvantageous politically. Of course, the reason he came to that church initially is likely because it was very politically advantageous at the time. What Obama revealed today, in a highly unusual and uncharacteristic bit of candor is that he is unable to get past his own views of whites as racists and blacks as victims. Just as he implied that “typical whites” (imagine McCain making any statement about a “typical black”, he would be crucified in the media) like his grandma are probably racist. Barack Obama wants to have it both ways, like any typical politician. But he’s not supposed to be a typical politician. He’s supposed to be our political savior. He’s supposed to bring change, he’s supposed to be the catalyst for utopia. How can he do this by being a typical politician? Is more of the same going to bring us utopia? Or is it possible that Barack Obama is simply a good speaker (only when he has a teleprompter) who has promised much more than he can possibly deliver. And what about racial harmony? Or the racial “healing” we’re supposed to get? Obama’s not going to in any meaningful way assuage white guilt because he insists on using it for his political advantage. Just like everything else at his disposal.

Obama’s Fascist Mantra

(Note: this the first in an as yet unnumbered series on Barack Obama’s fascist tendencies, mostly brought about through my reading of Jonah Goldberg’s superb book Liberal Fascism let me say right here that I don’t believe that Obama is a fascist in a Nazi or Hitlerian manner, only that he tends towards ideas and programs that seek to replace God with the state, or possibly himself.)

“Change we can believe in.” “Yes we can.” These are the seemingly meaningless phrases that Barak Obama throws around like they were a panacea for everything that ails us as a country. And it works. Sorta. It accomplishes what it is really meant to do, and that is to act like a siren’s song for the young and disenfranchised. It is vital to realize that these phrases weren’t chosen out of caprice, this verbiage wasn’t chosen by lottery. As Obama said in his plagiaristic speech, words mean something. And you can be sure every word used for a motto of a Presidential campaign has a very specific meaning and they seek to convey a very specific message. Barack Obama’s campaign theme “change we can believe in” is a most specious motto, but once it is closely examined, it reveals fascistic tendencies. So that is what I have done, I have considered each word he has chosen, words which obviously have a very real, if disturbing meaning. The very first word is change, which is obviously is no mistake since it really is the word that Obama uses the most, the word that really his whole campaign is focused around. Obviously, the question is whether the change that Obama intends to bring about is good or bad. Change is an action word. Barak Obama’s going to do things, he’s going to shake things up, he’s going to upset the status quo, and this energizes youth and the disenfranchised. But when one is so determined to change things, when many if not most people are resistant to change on a basic level– well let’s just say that democracy gets in the way of radical change. That’s why this is a fascistic motto. Mussolini declared himself a man of action. Political action certainly is exciting, but that doesn’t make it beneficial. Change is a rebellious concept which is clearly chosen to take advantage of the unpopularity of George W. Bush, but it is vital that we look with open eyes at what we are moving towards instead of what we are moving away from. Rebellion can be the most costly of reactions. The second word is we. Believe it or not this word is also very important. It is important because its universal. We excludes none, most notably Barack himself. More common in this case the structure would be “Change you can believe in” because you is personal. You suggests that this might be something that benefits you, this might be in your interest. You can also be plural, and it would imply that those around you, those you care about can believe in this change too. The problem is that you is too personal for any fascist motto. You emphasizes the individual, it emphasizes personal values, and that is not fitting with liberal or fascist ideas. We is more important. We is collective. We’re all in this together. The good of the group comes before individual rights. We unites us. As Mussolini said, “Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State, which is the conscience and universal will of man in his historical existence. It is opposed to classical Liberalism, which arose from the necessity of reacting against absolutism, and which brought its historical purpose to an end when the State was transformed into the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.” It is the rejection of the importance of the individual that insists on using “we” instead of “you.” Can. This is the second most often used word by Obama, and this is the word that he uses in his mantra that his followers repeat in eerie unison. In this case though it is not the word of action but of affirmation, reassuring you can believe in this politician. Believe. Believe should be an odd word for politics. After all, politicians should almost never be believed, certainly not when they haven’t already proven themselves. And a politician saying believe me, trust me should be the most suspicious. Barack Obama’s candicy does require belief, though. Not only because he has an almost invisible voting record and no history of managing or running anything, but because his claims are beyond the scope of a man as President. Democracy uses baby steps. Obama is promising giant leaps. But we are not just supposed to trust Obama as the next President. We are to believe in him. He is our hope. The number two believer, behind Obama himself said it clearly: she was finally proud of her country because so many people believed in her Barack. Or as she phrased it “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.” One can only conclude Mrs.Obama believes that without Barack there is no hope. Make no mistake, this is religious faith. We are to believe inBarack Obama.