J.G.,
Hope your holiday weekend went well. I just want to say that Martin Luther King, a man I admire, was not a Communist. Obama might be, but more likely he is some sort of revisionist Marxist. He is even further to the Left than my neighbor state’s senator, Bernie Sanders, who is openly a socialist. Obama’s voting record is not a secret. It’s there for all to see. I know what his thinking is in economic matters, and it is not at all good for America. Look, I studied Marxism in all its variants. I accepted the irrefutable evidence of history that socialism is a failure everywhere it’s been tried. I know why it failed and why it fails.
The young people who overwhelmingly support Obama are not armed with the kind of information and experience that would lend wisdom to their vote. The mainstream media is not providing it. Their educations have not provided it, which is one fundamental way in which I disagree with Hugh’s optimistic interpretation of them. And my experience is that many, maybe most, will not listen to people like me explain why voting for Obama is a mistake. They are going to have to learn from experience. This will be a painful lesson for them, because they will know that their choices have imposed great crises upon the nation and may even cost millions of human lives in Israel, the Middle East, and Iran. Their poor decision will put into office a man and a coterie of Soros’ picked advisers who will greatly harm our economy. And this will likely put the Democratic Party in the the political hinterland for at least two generations. Look, I’m a registered Republican (and only one since 2003)who was a lifelong Democrat. Yet, I think what Dean and Soros have done to the Democratic Party will wreck it as a viable check on the other party. A stronger, more mature Democratic Party will compete and make the Republican Party stay on its toes too.
We have arrived at this moment because of the Gramscian “long march through the institutions.” The kids enthralled with Obama have been prepared for this moment by their teachers, their professors, and the media. Truthfully, there is not much we can do to overturn the momentum of this direction. You might be able to peel away a few of the kids by pointing out how he really is not the pure knight he sells himself as, but overall this is a phenomenon that is more akin to a faith rather than a rational process.
Bottom Line: The vast majority of these kids never served in the military. They were told, relentlessly, that America is an imperialistic bully and deserved the wrath of the shaheeds (never mind the fact that throughout 1,400 years of Islam’s history it has murdered over 270 million human beings and that for most of that history there was no United States of America). These kids never had to sacrifice the way that prior generations of Americans had to. The historical narrative in their heads does not square with the one I have in mine. They don’t know the world as I’ve come to know it. Real evil exists and this country, while not perfect, is indeed fighting the good fight against a vicious, determined enemy – THE OLDEST SURVIVING TOTALITARIANISM. History, going forward, will throw ice water in their faces.
