Squaring the Culture

The title of this post mirrors the title of an editorial at Investor’s Business Daily from Monday. I urge you all to read that editorial, which I’m quoting here.

The gist of it is to outline Obama’s economic proposals in light of his stated aim of “serving economic justice.” The phrase is a favorite of world socialists, who regard disparate wealth as an injustice and insist on government-enforced redistribution. Obama’s plans laid side-by-side make it clear that this is what he intends.

The editorial then proceeds to cite some of the details I’ve noted here about Obama’s upbringing and early employment, only adding some details I did not know. Apparently Obama’s first employer was a direct disciple of Saul Alinsky, who himself organized communities in Chicago, and the topic titles on the blackboard in an image of Obama teaching that I used in an earlier post are key phrases from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. See below:

He also recites communist ties to Obama’s father, and Obama’s support of Kenyan opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who has some communist connections. These two latter points are irrelevant, in my humble opinion; Obama’s father had no influence in his son’s life, and African politicians are mostly self-promoters rather than ideologues. However, it is certainly the case that Obama has moved consistently in radical circles around the world, and is known by them.

We have a public relations problem. Obama is a closet Marxist, and is openly, if obliquely, promising to institute Marxist-style socialism here in America. Yet, only about half of Americans even recognize Obama as liberal, let alone radical; and the number has dropped since Obama started swapping his positions to move to the center. We need to start sending the message out: Obama is not moderate, Obama is not liberal, Obama is Marxist. A vote for Obama represents, surprisingly, capitulation in the Cold War, a war we thought was over, and we had won.

Obama/Marx poster from CafePress, where you can buy bumper stickers and yard signs spreading the message. This may be a worthwhile contribution to the campaign, if you’re of a mind…