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Old 11-29-2012, 21:52   #12
Kai
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Originally Posted by XngZeRubicon View Post
I don't care who the hell wrote the parts I bolded - they're spot on. I personally don't think of President Obama as a communist. But at a minimum he is a Democratic Socialist in the European mold.

It's three weeks after the election an I'm still sickened.
The hallmark of socialism is government ownership of the means of production. Venezuela is the modern day prototype: taking over mines, factories, oil, and so on.

The hallmark of communism is destruction of the concept of private property: everything is owned by the community -- which is, in turn, controlled by a strong central government, "for their own good." Soviet Russia was the prototype.

Obama is neither of those.

The hallmark of fascism is government colluding with corporations and unions. Gov creates laws that favor one corp over another, or that send truckloads of taxpayer money their way, and in return they feed the public whatever propaganda gov wants. If they mess up, gov can claim they weren't responsible, and blame the corp, which then helps facilitate creation of more laws -- all of the "benefits" of socialism, without the risks.

I think many people would be surprised at (or simply wouldn't believe) the depth of Obama's corporate connections--not just Solyndra, but a whole laundry list of similar hand-outs. There's a book called Obamanomics that goes into considerable detail about them. How else could he have raised $1B for his campaign? Why else would the MSM be so strongly biased in his favor? Although ideology plays a big part, there's much more to it.

I would describe Obama as projecting an outwardly Progressive image, but using Fascist strategy and tactics.

Unfortunately, Repubs are just as guilty as the Dems on this front (although the Dems are certainly being more effective at the moment), which is one reason I think the Repub campaigns felt so flat and ineffective. To truly expose the Dems for what they are, the Repubs would be shooting themselves in the foot at the same time (or so they think).
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