Buried in the Text

It is so easy amid the glare of the floodlights and the emotion of the rally to miss the chilling themes that carry through the narrative. We could look back at history and see the omens. It takes no oracle to interpret the runes or read the tea leaves. Quite often people inadvertently say exactly what they mean. All we have to do is listen.

Can We Call Them SS?

Did you catch that part at the end? Or were you enthralled by the swelling pride that we have such a man who would motivate the youth of America to get beyond themselves and do something for their country? Where is Santayana to point us back and help us interpret?

Do you know the essential difference between the extreme ideology of the left—the pure Marxist; and the extreme ideology of the right—the National Socialist Hitler? Many view the spectrum of political ideology as not being linear but circular. We find ourselves on the bottom of the circle and swaying pendulum style to the leftish or rightish side of the arc. The extremes bend back together on the far side of the circle with their total governmental interference in life, the totalitarian perspective. The difference is that Marx saw the state existing and then withering away in serving the people. Hitler, on the other hand saw the people slavishly devoted to serving the state. They both envisioned their utopia as fully controlling all aspects of life.

The circle metaphor allows us to see the most liberal or leftist Senator of the current government reaching to create the state which then demands total service of the people. We know already that Sen. Obama seeks to minimize and eventually eliminate “inequality of income.” The goal, of course, is to eliminate poverty and sickness and hunger and homelessness. It gets paid for by taxing the successful folks who will be eager to do good. Rephrased that common good becomes confiscation by the government—notice how that leftist extreme suddenly became rightist?

The chiller of the Tribune story is that quote at the end:

"We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." as the military.

How else are we to compel compliance if we don’t have a Gestapo? And, since we have good reason to suspect that our patriotic American military might be reluctant to execute such compulsion demands, we would need a force to counter-balance them. Hitler had his brown-shirts and black-shirts. Balance of the terror is essential.

We only needed to wade through the convoluted fantasies of Mein Kampf to see what Adolph had in mind for the future. We could have gleaned the plans and maybe foreseen the sort of folks who would serve in that administration. We could have known that anti-Semitism might really take a nasty turn after Krystalnacht. But how different is the team of associates that pops-up around Obama? Might we draw a parallel to Jeremiah Wright’s clear racism? Or how about Bill Ayers terrorist concepts of political action? Any comparisons visible there that minimize our need for a crystal ball to see our future?

Watch this historic video:

Armed With Their Shovels

They pass in review armed with their shovels, a remarkable parallel to Obama’s call for a newly expanded AmericCorps.

We’ll have to wait another month or so to see how similar the events at Invesco Field in Denver turn out to be. The production number that will be staged and broadcast to the enthralled crowds should make Lili Rifenstahl pale by comparison. No pun intended.

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