America enters the Last Chance Saloon!

Always good to have one's less than expert opinions confirmed by someone with considerably more knowledge and experience.  So, pleasure mixed with pain to read Peter Ferrara's article in The American Spectator which spells out in much more detail my gut feeling that this election in America is of monumental importance.  Four years ago Americans voted for ABB, or, 'Anyone But Bush'.  Voting for Obama achieved that objective and, moreover, as a bonus it provided them with a nice warm feeling that they had actually voted for a black president, no doubt much as their parents felt when they put a Roman Catholic into the White House in the form of Jack Kennedy.  But now they have seen the face of the tiger that lies behind Obama's charm and good looks.  He and the Democrat party have shown their colours and only 'them wot's blind or them wot don't wanna see' can be under any misapprehension as to what a second term will mean.  As Ferrara points out with deadly accuracy:

The last four years have been a coming out party for the Democrats. For over a hundred years now, Progressivism, a polite, Americanized term for Marxism, has been infiltrating and taking over the Democrat party, the national media, academia, the courts. But until now they have effectively hidden what they are all about. Under Obama, however, the heart and soul of the party has been let out of the closet and revealed (only for those paying attention, however, not the millions who so stubbornly still are not). And that heart and soul is Che. (My emphasis)

It was very astute of Ferrara to identify Che Guevara as the face on the totem pole of Left-wing activists, particularly those who have passed through the 'higher' reaches of Academe in the last 30 years or so.  Always fervently admired by young progressives not least, one suspects, because he is so much easier to 'learn' when compared with the intellectual slog required to master Marx and Engels:

Having attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, I saw all of this first hand. I saw all those prep school Marxists pledging to each other life long fealty to the worldwide socialist revolution, and going on to pose as "liberal" reporters and commentators, "liberal" environmentalists plotting the destruction of capitalism and its middle class prosperity from within, "liberal" candidates moderated just enough to get elected in their districts or states, "liberal" academics tutoring the next generation in the proper, socially acceptable attitudes to worker revolution, and providing cover for each other on the acceptability of more and more radical views.

As for Obama, himself, there can be no doubt where his heart lies, it is written, not in the stars, but in his own life and his own autobiographies:

Let us scrap the social diplomacy so we can communicate most effectively. Barack Obama is not just a communist infiltrator. He is communist royalty, born and bred. He hails from a self-professed communist Kenyan as his father, and from an anti-American 1960s hippie as his mother. Left to be raised by his "progressive" grandparents, he was provided a personal mentor during his adolescent years who was an open member of the Communist Party USA, Franklin Marshall Davis.

In his own autobiographies he tells us how he favored Marxist professors and student radicals in the Ivy League colleges where they are fostered. After he graduates, he becomes not just a student but an instructor in the social manipulation methodologies of openly Marxist revolutionary Saul Alinsky.

And with Saul Alinsky we meet the malign Godfather of the American Marxist movement, the man whose techiques have guided the infiltration of revolutionary Marxism into the very sinews of American public life: 

Obama launches his political career in the living room of confessed, anti-American terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. He attends the church of neo-Marxist Black Liberation Theologist Jeremiah Wright. I am not trying to break news here, just connect all the dots.

Following Alinsky, Obama campaigns today as an advocate for the middle class. But he and his compatriots see the American middle class as a moral embarrassment because we are so much richer and more prosperous than the rest of the world.

So Obama and his apparat have very clear aims and, as they have demonstrated during the first four years of his presidency, they are honing their skills in applying the means needed to achieve those aims.  They will be assisted tremendously by the expected double-dip recession next year - expected because that is precisely what Obama's economic and fiscal policies are aimed at.  There is nothing Marxist progressives like better than a full-blown emergency because then, obviously, emergency powers will be required to deal with the crisis - and who would argue with that?  Many of these 'emergency powers' will be even more unconstitutional than some of the trickery already slipped past a gullible and dozey American electorate with the help of a supine MSM.  If he gets another four years not only will the Supreme Court pass into his control but also the entire Federal judiciary:

Expect as well in a second term for the Supreme Court to break down as well as a check and balance, as it already has in the case of Obamacare. Barely five aging men on the court cannot hold the line against the Obama onslaught for four more years. Obama just needs one more appointment to seize the court for his make it up as you go along judicial activist liberals. Gone then will be any judicial check on his illegal activities, such as making recess appointments without the consent of the Senate, when Congress is not in recess. Or creating bureaucracies operating outside the rule of law, such as Dodd-Franks' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has the power to tax and regulate with no supervision from any branch of government, or the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which has the power to cut Medicare without Congressional approval.

I am by nature always very leary of conspiracy theories and so I am relieved to know that what Obama and his apparat are pushing towards is not, in strict terms, a conspiracy, rather it is the discreet execution of a very well-planned political campaign which was never based on the American four-year cycle but was intended to be insinuated over several decades.  First, Alinsky taught that it was necessary to lay the groundworks, to build up a foundation of support in urban areas using city, State or Federal funds to finance so-called 'community projects run by 'community' groups, hence the malignant spread of the ubiquitous ACORN groupuscle.  Hand-in-hand with this was the necessity of using links established in colleges, universities and trade unions to push forward like-minded individuals into ever more influential positions of power in the MSM, in State and Federal bureaucracies, the Judiciary and, because armed revolution would not work in the USA, into the Democrat party, itself.  It is worth remembering that Obama began his political life working a 'community' organiser and has now been 'placed' into the highest position in the land, but ...:

All of this is not just Obama. It is the heart and soul of today's Democrat party, more publicly revealed to America now then ever before, as more and more Democrats have felt free under Obama to drop their mask, and reveal their inner Che. What is now revealed is America's Democrat party as one of the most left-wing political parties in the entire world.

They are now poised to execute one more heave and America will be over the edge and onto the slippery downhill slope of Marxist socialism which will leave them hog-tied and enfeebled and led by a government and a ruling establishment which will kowtow to every totalitarian gangster in the world.  No-one can be certain that the Romney/Ryan team will achieve anyything near the successes of Ronald Reagan but they are all we have.  And perhaps it doesn't matter too much how effective they are because, on November the 6th, all the Americna people need to remember, the one single, crucially important idea, is - ABO - Anyone But Obama!

 

Comments

[Whyaxye]

Very interesting stuff. I think the UK just about beat the USA to the big idea expressed here. British academia and journalism were more comfortable with the idea of "cultural Marxism" courtesy of the Frankfurt school of social analysis. Conservative critics in the UK - notable Peter Hitchens - have been going an about the ex-Marxist elite who have been busy eroding our way of life, while pretending to run the BBC, education, Social Services, and major Quangoes.

It looks like the American conservatives have really taken this one to heart and have polished the ideas with great finesse. Whether it will have any effect, though, is another matter. As you rightly point out, some just don't want to see...

[David Duff]

Well, on November the 7th we will find out and in the meantime, fingers crossed!

[dearieme]

"this election in America is of monumental importance": that's what they always say. Evelyn Waugh got it right: the trouble with conservatives is that they never turn the clock back.

[David Duff]

DM, you're trying too hard for that role as the detached, somewhat cynical observer offering bon mots from the sidelines! It mattered very much that Reagan beat Carter but since then, I agree, the results have not been crucial - until now. We have all seen what Obama and his apparat are up to and another four years will give them the chance to nail it down. Whilst I recognise your latent anti-Americanism do try and imagine a world in which the USA actually sides with China, Russia and Iran!

[JK]

Probably a good thing I'm one of the few visitors to D&N who calls the American South home David.

Lumping "Leftist Activists" into the same generally, in agreement group, "Democrats" could, when you come to visit Arkansas - get you in more than a little trouble. Indeed, should you be including in your touring, each of the states of the South, take care (should I be with you) not to say any such thing.

While it is true Arkansas went more or less Republican in 2010, changing political affiliation in the South is akin to changing one's socks. Too, generally speaking, (and you can ask Paul Ryan's in-laws about this) proclaiming southern Democrats "are in league with Obama" is likely to get you tarred and feathered. An improvement over the long-johns and for damn sure the sarong I'd admit.

There is one quote I always keep in mind during our never-ending political campaigns, DM may be familiar with it:

“Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

[David Duff]

I am well aware, JK, that southern Democrats are DINOs. If you are happy and relaxed at the thought of another four years of Obama-rule with him picking all the new Federal judges as well as passing control of the Supreme Court to extreme Leftists, then I will not attempt to awake you from your sleep-walking!

[Jimmy]

David. Are you sure the auld Reds under the Bed scare story will work against Obama. Maybe the Republicans need a new boogie man or perhaps even better a programme of progressive ideas to benefit the whole of the USA.
Personally I think Obama is solid and will continue fight the real and present Islamic fascist enemy.

[David Duff]

"Personally I think Obama is solid and will continue fight the real and present Islamic fascist enemy"

Jimmy, do try and convince Netanyahu of that because I really don't think he believes it!

Also, read up the history of Saul Alinsky because he is Obama's guiding star. And it's not a question of "reds under the beds" but of reds out there in the open if only you, and the American public, would open your eyes!

[JK]

Experience with Federal judges David, advises me the guys (and gals) of the robe can't, once "bought and purchased" be depended on to remain bought and purchased!

Justices Kennedy, Scalia, Breyer and more recently Roberts spring to mind. And that's just the current Court. Thomas and Ginsberg perhaps but there're a few conservatives I know who didn't take particularly kindly to Thomas' position on Eminent Domain.

I suppose like Mr. Romney it's just possible, those confirmed as Conservative Jurists to the bedrock, like the tectonic plates beneath their fundamental bedrock, heh, evolved.

I am kinda surprised that what used to take a few dozens of years at least, to head America off in slightly different course changes has, pretty doggoned miraculously been managed by Obama to have turned the US on a dime!

DM? Your comment of 13:04 brought to my radar screen another of those "timeless and trues":

“...the period which immediately precedes an election, and that during which the election is taking place, must always be considered as a national crisis. … As the election draws near, the activity of intrigue and the agitation of the populace increase; the citizens are divided into hostile camps, each of which assumes the name of its favorite candidate; the whole nation glows with feverish excitement. ...”

Just my personal opinion David, but it has been my experience also that while a first-term President must take steps to not dismay his original base - during a second term he can well say, To hell with everybody!

For instance, who said this and when?

"Any final status agreement must be reached between the two parties, and changes to the 1949 Armistice Lines (the pre-1967 borders) must be mutually agreed to. A viable two-state solution must ensure contiguity on the West Bank, and a state of scattered territories will not work. There must also be meaningful linkages between the West Bank and Gaza. This is the position of the United States today; it will be the position of the United States at the time of final status negotiations."

[Jimmy]

David. I am sure Obama and Netanyahu are fielding for the same team on the same cricket ground.