What’s
more, I see the beliefs of the extreme left being validated and mainstreamed
with Senator Obama’s candidacy for President. Scrolling through a “Facebook”
group, I was disturbed to see this post by someone named R. Hawkins:
“It has been a while a
few months and i had expected all of you great brains would have solved all of
the nations/worlds problems and had us all marching lock step to a nice brass
band to the tune of some ultra right wing anthem. But instead i find the same
old tired debate over he said she said what a shame such great minds led astray
by their own youthful inexperience crusing town in dadys suv impressing your
friends with your quick wit and insight into our nations politics.
well let me say you
need to get on board OBAMA is in and the ignorance of greed is out.. I have
heard it first hand from some of the most conservative people i know that they
are mad as hell and ready to try some CHANGE.
i would call you all
out by name but dont want to waste the time I just want to poke all you right
wingers real good
with
laugh and a cry and DO NOT FORGET their is a recruiter waiting for you in the
phone book so Do the right thing and join and serve try being a real
PATRIOT....”
Obviously, the primary problem with this
posting is that Mr. Hawkins has no grasp of grammar, but the school systems’
failures are for another posting. My real gripe here is that the ideas put
forth in this post are not at all uncommon. Where in history did the Communist
Manifesto come to replace the Democratic Party platform? At what point did the
fringe Leftists, who think that the Republican Party represents "the ignorance of greed" hijack the Party of Jackson and FDR? And why is it that
rational minds are effectively swept to the side and ignored? All this in favor of a man who speaks of "change" and "hope" the way that Che Guevara spoke of "change" and "revolution." This feels too familiar for me.
We
all know that this isn’t anything new, but there was a time that someone like
Senator Obama—who has absolutely no substance and who promises $500 billion
tax hikes to pay for a socialized healthcare plan that is predestined to fail—would
have been ignored and passed aside. But here, he’s running for President and
actually has a decent shot. Moreover, his most vocal supporters seem to be some
sort of bizarre historical holdover from the New Left movement from Vietnam
protests.
Here’s
what counts: America could be in real trouble. And we definitely are if we
allow the politics of Lenin to inhabit the bodies of snake-oil salesmen who
claim to be the Democratic mainstream. I find myself wishing that someone could
see the dark, quasi-communist movement that lies ahead, but sanity has become a
screaming voice in the vacuum of space.
The
concern is that we aren’t far away from having every industry and business
become a socialized institution. Low taxes are replaced with the word “greed”
on the Left, even though conservatives have been found to be better than 30%
more generous than liberals per year in terms of charitable contributions. So,
why, exactly, am I supposed to see such a massive difference between the
current Democratic establishment and the Communist party? They both say that
anyone who wants to spend his or her own money in his or her own way is “greedy.”
They both say that big Government needs to take over any business whenever
there even seems to be a reason (good or bad). And they both find the United
States Constitution to be a stumbling block rather than laws and rules to live
and govern by. This would be bad enough, if the radical candidate wasn’t also
advocating a frightening, dangerous foreign policy.
We
already know the naïveté of Obama’s foreign policy. He could desperately use to
read this
article from the Associated Press, which proves that Iraqi citizens are
starting to stand up and that the surge worked. Iraq will be a success, and yet
Obama still preaches defeat. He talks of invading Pakistan, even though it’s
probably the closest thing America has to an ally in the Middle East. And
forget the fact that he unconditionally wants to sit and chat with Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Raul Castro. But I’m preaching to the choir. This is, after
all, townhall.com, not the readership of the New York Times. I just hope that America, as a whole, can see what
lies ahead if the Left doesn’t wake up soon.