Feb 24 2009
Do We Really Stand a Chance?
How close are we?
How close are we to the totalitarian socialistic society Orwell wrote about? This really happened to me the other day.
“Goodbye, Comrade!” Were the words used by a 10 year old child to say goodbye to me…
He didn’t know what he was saying or why it might be scary to me, but I just had to chuckle in the back of my mind—because there are signs… There have been books written, movies made, and tales told of a futuristic world where these concepts come true.
In the past I’ve always wondered how it was possible to ever get to that point and now I know. There’s a perfect storm that has been brewing, waiting for the right time—we could be on the brink of that time now. People think it takes one big push to make this kind of change happen. But I disagree, I think it’s a thousand little pushes here and there that conjure up the perfect storm that makes it possible.
Buzz on the street is the nationalization of the banks. The auto industry is already in the process of nationalization. I would say Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and assorted other mortgage industry businesses are already nationalized…
The street doesn’t like this kind of talk at all—checkout the market sometime… As it turns out, Main Street doesn’t like it either, but when Main Street doesn’t like the way it sounds the words are changed to slip it into our veins—and we welcome it.
How close are we? Or, is it really how far away are we to the realization of Marxist transition to Communism.
—iChef Politikos
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Obama plans “soak the rich” class-warfare economics by Ed Morrissey
Heh. I have NO idea where he got that. Earlier, he said, “I’m going to give you a kiss. It may feel a little weird at first, but I think you’ll like it at the end.”
Speechless.