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Posted By RTHTGakaRoland 1 month ago in Political OpinionThe problem is, though, that in its quest to eradicate capitalism, the Constitution, and conventional morality in the service of denying "authoritarianism," the radical left has morphed into precisely the type of totalitarian movement it had long sought to discredit. In the process, it's turning our country into Obamerika
It was fashionable among leftist revolutionaries in the 1960s to label our country "Amerika," the German spelling meant to recall Adolf Hitler and indicate that the United States was a "fascist" state. With the dramatic shift toward government takeover of the private sector and the attendant diminishing of constitutional rights being instituted by our new president's administration, it might be time to take a page from the left's playbook and ask, "Are we now living in Obamerika?"
In using the word "fascist" to discredit their enemies, leftists from the 1960s to the present follow the lead of two Marxist thinkers: Erich Fromm and Theodor Adorno, who were among the more vocal in making the false connection between conservatism and fascism. That connection took the form, most importantly, of the identification of something called "the authoritarian personality," a concept which emerged and grew alongside Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s. In fact, Fromm and Adorno, as well as Herbert Marcuse and many other leftist intellectuals, were members of The Frankfurt School, a Marxist think-tank driven from Germany during that decade by Hitler himself -- the ultimate authoritarian personality, and the model for the Institute's defining psychological paradigm.
Lo and behold, they "discovered" that there indeed did exist among American citizens people who were of the "authoritarian personality" type. Furthermore, these people shared many of their personality traits with Nazi leaders and Nazi supporters. Predictably, their character traits were precisely opposite those of the "good guys," that is, of people who tended to be pro-communist and pro-socialist. The book claims to describe nothing less than "the rise of an 'anthropological' species we call the authoritarian type of man."
Since their publication, The Authoritarian Personality and Man For Himself have provided the foundation for those on the left referring to anyone whose political beliefs were even minimally right of center as "Nazis," a practice which persists to this day.
The twisted, self-fulfilling logic of the left on this topic is perhaps best illustrated in a post by one Peter Mehlman, a contributor to the Huffington Post (and former co-executive producer of Seinfeld), who asserted that former President George W. Bush was actually worse than Hitler, because "[y]ou could argue that even the world's fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought they were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks / eliminating Jews / eradicating free enterprise / repressing individual thought / killing off rivals / invading neighbors, etc."
Unfortunately, it is the current administration that exemplifies Mehlman's "reasoning." Obama and his cohorts eschew all authority, from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution, that they themselves do not generate. This translates to "any moral or legal principle that does not support the Obama administration's political agenda or the idea that its leaders should have power over every area of our lives." Through sweeping stimulus, health care, cap-and-trade, and net neutrality legislation, the current administration is attempting to commandeer the authority to dictate everything from executive pay to what end-of-life treatments are available to its citizens, from what we listen to on our radios and watch on our television sets to what opinions we can share on the internet and what cars we can drive.
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RTHTGakaRoland1 month ago
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One more starkly clear example of the American Left being based on nothing more than a cluster of self-defeating fantasies and delusions.
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The Left opposes core American Principles because for some these principles limit their exercise of power and for the remainder because their personal shortcomings prevent them from competing successfully as individuals in an environment of substantial Liberty.
The left then vilifies America's core principles by using the most twisted logic imaginable to incorrectly associate these principles with one the worlds most vile Regimes, incidentally one more correctly associated with their own principles.
The Left in their struggle against their delusion of America's oppression is pushing America ever closer to the abyss of real oppression and "Obamerika". -
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truthiness1 month ago
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Imagine there's no heaven
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It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
- John Lennon-
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RTHTGakaRoland1 month ago
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Good going base your political philosophy, and advocate that your fellow citizens do likewise, on the addled lyrics of a lunatic and addict pop music star. Who even managed to allow his lunacy and addiction to destroy the band that was his sole contribution of any value to the world.
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canadianrancher571 month ago
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In the very first sentence of the heading there is the reference to eradicating capitalism, which most agree plays a major part in a democracy. For some reason when I look at capitalism I see usually two very obvious threats, one is socialism and the other is corporatism. I have yet to figure out which is my greatest threat.
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In my type of farming I raise cattle from calf till ready for slaughter and am continuously fighting red tape set up by government or if you want to call it socialism so be it. Then there is the the next big threat for me to make a living, up here in Canada we have basically two major players in the packing industry for beef, so much for competition, and these major players have become major not because they were the best but because they lobbied governments on the provincial and federal level and received tax breaks when establishing new plants.
The idea behind this story is to bash the socialists for ruining your country but to me the fact is that there is another side to this as well, and it's not the socialists. In all honesty what is ruining capitalism is governments both from the right and the left.-
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RTHTGakaRoland1 month ago
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CR57,
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You wrote:
"Then there is the the next big threat for me to make a living, up here in Canada we have basically two major players in the packing industry for beef, so much for competition, and these major players have become major not because they were the best but because they lobbied governments on the provincial and federal level and received tax breaks when establishing new plants."
This does not read like a second problem from a second direction, but simply as one more symptom of an expansive and much too powerful government. Your government, which is far along the same errant path from which we are struggling to keep ours from taking, is big enough and powerful enough to choose the winners among your packing industry and have chosen their cronies. This case seems to fit very well within what I wrote above:
"The Left opposes core American Principles because for some these principles limit their exercise of power and for the remainder because their personal shortcomings prevent them from competing successfully as individuals in an environment of substantial Liberty."
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willottica1 month ago
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I'm really sorry to those Americans who demonstrate rational thought, but every time I read the title of this blog, I think that "American Thinker" will soon become a derogatory term for one who refuses to consider both sides of an argument.
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It is this myopic thinking that causes the division and absolutism in your politics that is very apparent to outsiders.
The "American Thinker" seems to be one who collects all the information he can that supports his opinion, and ignores any evidence (no matter how valid) that goes against it. -
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