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Wait a minute. You mean to tell me Obama isn't a Muslim Kenyan Marxist communist fascist bent on controlling every aspect of our lives but simultaneously somehow also is a whiny pansy liberal who wont stand up to anyone? I'm shocked. Shocked I say. I mean, it sounds to me like you're suggesting Obama is just a center-left corporatist not substantially different than any president in the last several decades.
That's just crazy talk, sir.
This is the "overboard" mocking approach virtually ALL liberals take against criticism of Obama. Any time someone brings up very logical reasons not to vote for Obama, they get accused of being "birthers" who believe Obama is a Kenyan Communist "hell bent" on taking over America and turning it into a Communist country.
This is the epitomy of straw men arguments, which lead me to believe one of two things about liberals. Either A) they don't even understand the Progressive movement and it's history, or B) They are utilizing sarcasm and mockery to cover up the Progressive movement and it's history.
There is a stark difference in ideology between liberals and progressives, and I happen to believe that Progressives reside in BOTH parties. Regardless of the sarcasm and mockery, the Progressive movement has a defined and historical record. They have philosophies that clash with traditional American values. That's not necessarily a slam, it's simply the truth. Any reasonable person who has studied the Progressive movement from the 1920s to present day, can clearly identify philosophies that contradict traditional American values.
I mean, Saul Alinsky was A REAL person. He was also very influential among the scholarly left. He wasn't a Communist, but he was a Marxist organizer. The roots of Progressive ideology are steeped in Marxism. The leaders of the Progressive movement were either self-proclaimed Marxists, or spent their entire lives working with Marxists. The Progressive movement is supported by Marxist organizations. The founder of Planned Parenthood, one of the left's golden calves, was founded by a self-proclaimed Marxist, Margaret Sanger, who had a mission to abort more black babies, install legal Euthanasia of old people, and the mentally disabled. The common link between progressive ideology, and the ideologies of Adolf Hitler? One great connection is Darwinian Evolution. Another great connection is the utilization of the working class (proletariat), as an organizing force for revolution. These are direct ideologies of Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Saul Alinsky, and ironically, men like Van Jones, who are ON RECORD saying virtually the exact same things Hitler would say in his lengthy speeches.
The difference in Progressive Ideology and Hitler's ideology, is the "means". Van Jones describes it as "trading the radical POSE for the radical ENDS", whereas Hitler believed in bringing about change through military power. The Progressive Marxists in America knew they couldn't "violently" overthrow the government. They tried that in the 1960s. The hippies of the 1960s became the yuppies of the 1990s. They cut their hair, washed their arm pits, went to Ivy League schools, and put on a business suit. They ascertained enormous influence in the Universities, where they still dominate philosophical thought. They traded their "radical pose", and adopted a different pose. That pose is "politician", "professor", "organizer", "labor union", "journalist", even "pastor". But the radical "ends" haven't changed. Don't believe that? Just read Van Jones. Read Bill Ayers. Read Elena Kagan before she became a Supreme Court Justice. Read Barak Obama. Read Cloward and Piven. Read Jeremiah Wright. Read James Cone.
There's no doubt that the number of Progressive Marxists have grown in size in America since the 1920s. But this is an ideology that should also trouble even liberals! I remember when liberals were more like Libertarians. They just wanted personal freedoms. Not at the enormous cost of trillions and trillions of dollars in government spending though. Not at the cost of condemning the freedom of speech and expression. That's why I ask, "where are all the liberals" when Obama and his administration were condemning the Muhammed YouTube video just as harshly as they were condemning the killing of 4 American citizens? Are there any honest liberals left that will actually agree that the video was just as reprehensible as the killings? Because to me, they aren't even in the same catagory, not even close. Offending someone, or even a large group of people, is not the same as the taking of innocent life. They are not equal, and therefore should not be equally condemned.
The world has lost "reason", and the left has lost it's sense of personal freedom. Today, personal freedom is only applied to a couple of issues, like abortion and contraception, or smoking pot. Liberals do not apply the philosophy of personal freedom to gun ownership, making money, drinking 52 ounce cokes in NYC, owning health insurance, school choice, taxes, or making YouTube videos. It's easy for me to tolerate "liberals", but the left has changed. Today, the left is dominated by big government Progressive Marxists, and the party is led entirely by them. For me to call Obama a Marxist isn't a slam, he is what he is. But the left says "you just don't know what a Marxist is". lol...ok.
I know what a Marxist is, and I fully understand the philosophies of Marxism, and how they aren't always "in your face", but more times than not, they are disquised and watered down a bit. Hitler didn't storm Germany with an army to begin with. The reeducation philosophy of Hitler wasn't "kill jews, kill jews". His philosophies took time to be taught through the schools and universities. The Nazi Movement didn't happen overnight. It "progressed" ever so slightly. Then, on the heels of an ECONOMIC collapse, he seized the opportunity. The comparisons I draw between Hitler and Progressives here in America, isn't a comparison that has anything to do with the killing of Jews. In that way, no, Progressives aren't like Hitler. Hitler took his philosophies to a completely different level. However, many of the same philosophies of Hitler are shared within the Progressive Marxist movement in America, dating back all the way to the 1920s. Read Mein Kampf. There are striking resemblences to the American Progressive Movement.
Just a coincidence? Or is there something more to it than sheer coincidence? I know the answer......and I don't think very many "liberals" do.....