So what are we dealing with here? A radical leftist movement pretending to be liberal, growing out of the New Left of the 1960s, painfully aware of how the far left miserably failed in American history, and trying to create a twenty-first century stealth leftism. The first step was to gain hegemony in the key institutions that created ideas, rather than the factories that created material goods. They succeeded brilliantly.
The next step was to shape millions of Americans, especially young Americans, to accept their ideas that the United States was a force for evil in the world, a failed society, a place of terrible racism and hatred for women, and a country where the vast majority didn’t have a fair chance because the system was unfair. In fact, if you take away the varnish rhetoric, they argue that America is a virtual dictatorship of a small minority of wealthy people who just set everything up for their own convenience. Obviously this parallels both Marxist and non-Marxist historical leftism.
The fact that their description of America has so little to do with the actual country makes it all the more impressive that they’ve been able to sell this set of ideas. Having one of their indoctrinated products become president was a special bonus. That doesn’t mean Obama was backed by some conspiracy or singled out for highest office. There are thousands of such people who are in positions of power, including one-third of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. Obama just perfectly fit the needs of the moment.
Let’s hope the moment has changed.
Fortunately, these people also have the philosophy of “Don’t do anything for yourself that Obama can do for you,” so they mostly sit on their butts, suck up oxygen, and whine that Republicans should quit stopping Obama from giving them more free stuff. On the downside, they vote. I guess I should take pride in living in a country where barnacles have an equal say in choosing the leader of the free world, but the ship of state would move a lot faster if we scraped them off the hull.
I have often asked modern day democrats what happened to the party whose one time leader and to this day democrat icon said “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
The only accurate way to re-phrase JFK’s declaration to fit the modern democrat party would be to say “Ask not what you can do for yourself, ask what government can do for you.”
What will we say when the barnacles actual sink the ship?
They’ll all look up and scream, “Save us!”. . . and I’ll look down and whisper, “No.”