The news is really unbelievable these days. All that I once thought were core American values and traditions are now being washed away in a sea of propaganda and political attacks from the radical Left, which now rules supreme and knows it. The Left in power is now waging an ideological war not only against conservatives, but any dissenting Americans who get in their way. Worst of all, they are using the full machinery of the government and their Lefty media lapdogs to do it all, and in the same fashion as Ahmadinejad’s government is demonizing the Green protesters in Iran.
It is chilling to witness, in the United States of America of all places. Civil political discourse is a thing of the past. You cannot oppose ObamaCare without being a swastika-waving corporate Nazi stooge. Never mind the fact that no one will tell us exactly where all the hospitals, doctors, and nurses to treat 50 million new patients will magically materialize from, or how it will all be paid for.
Likewise, you cannot oppose the draconian Cap-and-Tax bill without being a Global Warming heretic on the order of a Holocaust denier. Never mind the frost and record summer lows in my home state of New Hampshire or record cold temperatures worldwide. And you can’t oppose any of President Obama’s policies without being a racist. In short, every political issue these days is being taken far too personally by the petty tyrants of the Left, and made into ideological battlefields against any and all American citizens who stand in the way.
Also greatly disturbing are statements from our new FCC ‘Diversity’ Chief Mark Lloyd, a black radical Communist who has been caught on film praising Hugo Chavez’ stifling clampdown on Venezuela TV and radio stations as effective government media regulation policy. Mr. Lloyd also seeks to fine broadcasters 100% of their operating budget if they don’t meet certain “diversity” criteria, in effect instantly bankrupting them. One way of putting conservative talk radio out of business, I guess.
Worst of all is the double standard on Brownshirt-like violence and intimidation. You could start with the vague Republican platform-covering DHS report of April 14th (just in time for the Teabagger Parties), which even DHS civil liberties lawyers opposed. You could then move on to the three racist Black Panther Party poll watcher thugs in Philly who committed what Bartle Bull, a Jim Crow South poll observer, called in his affidavit “the worst voter intimidation I’ve ever seen” receive Get-Out-of Terrorizing-White-Voters-Free cards, courtesy of Obama’s and Eric Holder’s Injustice Department.
Then you could wrap it all up with the racial slandering and beating of Kenneth Gladney, which the SEIU thugs who beat him and their bosses tried to turn around and blame on him, despite damning video of the event. For the icing on the ideological cake, a young Democratic activist smashes up the windows of a Democratic Party office in Denver to the tune of $11,000.00, yet that damage is still being blamed by Democrats on ObamaCare protesters despite the facts even they know to be true.
I am a service veteran of the Cold War. I remember very distinctly what it was we were fighting vis-a-vis the Soviets: a power-mad totalitarian state based on a rigid ideology that crushed its own people underfoot, branded any and all dissenters as counter-revolutionaries, and used the propaganda machinery of PRAVDA and TASS to make sure the enemies of the state knew exactly who they were. As I’m sure many CIA career employees are feeling right now, given the Left’s and the Injustice Department’s political persecution of them of late. I guess ACLU papparazzi outing agents to Gitmo terrorists ain’t no big deal like Valerie Plame, huh? Since their cause is so just?
When a Lefty pundit like Chris Matthews talks about using sodium pentothal to get to the truth on an ideological matter from Obama’s political opponents, I’d normally consider that pure Lefty insanity. But given all the other factors in play, I have to wonder: just how serious is he being? Then there’s the President’s plan to created a new civilian national defense army as powerful as our military. For what purpose? Who will lead that army? The New Black Panther Party, given the bangup job they did at the polls in Philly last year? And for which they’ve been cleared to provide “security” for again? Or the SEIU Purpleshirts, who have already proven they can handle reprobate ObamaCare protesters?
Scary stuff, people. Lefties may have howled during the Bushitler years, but never did the Bush government, or any other for that matter, take such an active role in demonizing the minority party, or actively work to suppress freedom of speech and expression through intimidation as ours is today. Michael Moore and Al Franken were free to rant to the skies. Randy Rhodes of Air America even simulated Bush’s assassination on the air. Yet Rush Limbaugh says he wants Obama’s policies to fail, and liberal Democrats in Congress start a petition against him.
Even worse, Obama himself establishes a political campaign against Rush, a private citizen, from within the Oval Office itself, with the full resources, power and authority of the White House. Lastly, you have Patrick Courrielche informing us of the NEA co-opting artists to promote controversial Obama legislation and policies through the arts, courtesy of we taxpayers who fund NEA. Had Mr. Courrielche not blown the whistle on that situation here at Big Hollywood, who would know about it? It begs the question: What else don’t we know about that’s going on behind our backs?
Given all that has transpired since President Obama’s and the Left’s ascendancy to supreme power in America, I’ll dare say it. I’m with Rush. If these are all what Obama’s policies are, I want them to fail, too. Miserably. I also have a name for what the Left is doing in all the above: un-American. I don’t know about you people, but I’m going to keep my eyes wide open for as long as the Left is running the show. Goes back to that eternal vigilance being the price of liberty thing.
As I stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Midway twenty-five years ago, I was fully aware of the enemy we had been confronting since the end of WWII. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would be fighting a Cold War at home a quarter-century later, and against that very same rigid Marxist ideology. But that is where we find ourselves today. And our Cold War at home must be fought as the old one was: tooth and nail. Go to your town halls and Tea Parties in force. Sign petitions. Speak out when you see something amiss. Evil flourishes when good men do nothing. And I see far too many evils flourishing today to sit silently on the sidelines.
Our very democracy and way of life is at stake here. Is there any greater battle worth fighting?
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