Have Each Other's Back

Obama was on the campaign trail again. He was at Fort Stewart talking about "having each other's back." I found it quite funny considering the fact that obama had wanted to cut spending on military benefits, yet didn't propose any cuts on any public sector union benefits. I am sorry, but spending cuts on the military should be last in line. Especially cuts to the benefits of our veterans and our service men and women. They are risking their lives to protect us and have earned everything that they are given.

It is also funny that in his speech, part of which you can watch in the clip bellow, he talks about all the ways that we, as a society, have each other's back. What he is talking about is the civil society, something he seeks to replace with a government run society. For generations American's looked after one another through their communities, neighborhoods, and churches. This idea that government is the entity to look after people is a relatively new idea in America and has been slowly growing since the "regressive" movement began in the early twentieth century. What Obama is doing here is talking about things that all Americans can agree on, the civil society, but he then proceeds to slip in his true agenda. He moves from talking about individuals looking out for each other to using the government to look out for everyone. This is just another example, in a long string of examples, of the left using subversive rhetoric to appeal to Americans so they can institute their utopia, top-down government run tyranny.

I reference the last two minutes of the speech. From 8:00 on.
 

Fascism in America

I came across this poster the other day and it is quite frightening. I am sure that most of the agitators involved in the occupy movement aren't aware that the movement they are lobbying for is fascism. But that, unfortunately is how all of these eventual totalitarian movements start, by what Lenin referred to as "useful idiots." The word fascism is so often misused and thrown around today (usually by fascists or other types of socialists, ironically enough) that most people don't realize that they are using the word incorrectly. I don't have time to get into the entire history and nuances of fascism here but I can explain how it relates to this poster.

A large part of the history of fascism can be traced back to a man by the name of Georges Sorel. Here is an excerpt from the book "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg. He articulated Sorel's contribution better then I can.

"...Sorel's greatest contribution to the left--and Mussolini in particular--lay elsewhere: in his concept of "myths," which he defined as "artificial combinations invented to give the appearance of reality to hopes that inspire men in their present activity." For Sorel, the Second Coming of Christ was a quintessential myth because it's underlying message--Jesus is coming, look busy--was crucial for organizing men in desirable ways.

For syndicalists at the time and, ultimately, for leftist revolutionaries of all stripes, Sorel's myth of the general strike was equivalent to the Second Coming. According to this myth, if all workers declared a general strike, it would crush capitalism and render the proletariate--rather than the meek--the inheritors of the earth. Whether the implementation of a general strike would actually have this result didn't matter, according to Sorel."

This poster calls for a "general strike" against the 1%, another myth created by the occupy movement.

If the occupy movement really wanted to reign in corporate corruption they should have joined the "tea party" movement. The best way to limit corruption is to limit the size and scope of government so Wall Street, corporations, or any other special interest is rendered incapable of lobbying for preferential treatment through legislation.