Many members of the radical left in this nation have spent every decade since the 1960s seeking positions of power and influence by which they might remake America in their own image. Such people are normally found in judicial positions, college professorships, cabinet posts or a director’s chair. Others, who are not in the spotlight as often, can be found teaching 3rd graders about the evils of capitalism, the racism of the Republican Party, and the environmental hazards of Big Oil.
-President Obama appears at the 1:50 mark-
Occasionally, however, there arises a radical who is all these different things rolled into one: a progressive with a persona that enables him to influence adults and hold sway over the minds of children. A good example of this type of leftist is President Obama, who not only convinced a majority of adults to vote for him over Senator John McCain in 2008, but also used that same campaign season to appeal to children and younger voters by having his name advertised in video games. Since then, he has crafted presidential speeches aimed at America’s youngest generations (as when he gave a special speech to elementary school students which was broadcast throughout the public school system in the fall of 2009), and will be appearing in the soon-to-be-released Madden NFL 11.
That’s right: Obama’s image will be tucked into the scenes of one of the most popular video games available.
These attempts to make Obama’s face and message ubiquitous perfectly exemplify what the left always denies: that they are willing to use education and entertainment mediums to indoctrinate instead of educate. And as with all the other things Obama does, he is not placing his image everywhere by accident. Rather, he is doing so in order to saturate the minds of young Americans with a Hollywood-crafted caricature of “the messiah” who promises hope and change (but mainly change).
I believe Obama and his surrogates know that the generation that grows up under constant exposure to his image will more readily accept the kinds of policies Obama promotes. And while this is really just a new dance to the same old song, it fits perfectly into the schema that the left has been constructing for decades.
Just as the generation that came of age during the 1980s did so under the tutelage of MTV, and the generation of the 1990s under that of late night television’s presentation of Bill Clinton as a hip saxophone player, so too the generation coming of age in the early 21st century does so with the constant presence of Obama. If they go to school, he is there in a speech. If they watch television, he is there striking an austere pose. And if they play a video game, his brand awaits them, and his face is there too (minus the cigarettes of course).
George Orwell couldn’t have planned it better.