He’s not a Communist. I get so sick and tired of hearing this bullshit. I grew up in a Communist state. In fact, my family and I were political refugees from Eastern Europe due to our opposition to Communism. We know what Communism is like. If Obama is trying to be a Communist, he’s a failure at it.
For one thing, big business is flourishing under his administration. The stock market is going up and companies are making huge profits. In Communist society, big business didn’t exist. All industries were supposed to be owned by the working class–which, in reality, amounted to them being owned by the government. Yeah, business and the government have gotten uncomfortably close, and people are upset that certain companies are getting perks and breaks from the government. I don’t like that either, but that’s not Communism. In Communism, businessmen and profiteers were enemies of the government, not its friends. What we’ve got can be more accurately defined as crony capitalism. And Obama isn’t even very good at being a progressive President, otherwise more of those profits and perks enjoyed by the wealthy elites would get shared with the rest of us. They aren’t, and he doesn’t seem to be taking any kind of radical action to make it happen.
The Communist state also doesn’t accept any free expression of views that are opposed to its ideology, and quashes all dissent. For all the talk of Obama being a dictator, if there’s anything we’ve had plenty of since he became President, it’s been loud criticism of his administration. And calling it “criticism” is putting it mildly–how about vitriol, fuming hatred, extreme name calling (see “Obama’s a Communist”). I haven’t seen any of the incessant hateful speech about the President getting censored–nor should it be. The talking heads who spend the most time on the airwaves yelling about how oppressive the Obama “regime” is would be in jail or off the radio a long time ago if they lived under a truly oppressive regime. But they have no idea what that’s actually like, and it’s their job to yell, not to think.
A lot of people bring up Obamacare or government health care as an example of the “Communism” in question. But there are many countries like Germany or Holland or Sweden that have government health care and are not Communist at all. They are a mix of capitalism with a welfare state. I realize there are some for whom any political system which is not unrestrained capitalim is automatically bad, but one should at least try to make distinctions. I can say from personal experience that the difference between living in Communist Eastern Europe and Western Europe was like night and day.
And that’s the point. If you dislike Obama–for any reason–fine. But it does you no good in presenting your argument if you do so using exaggerated and incorrect terms. If anything, Obama is a President who attempts to implement moderate Republican policies like Romneycare, and does so in a bumbling way. I realize that doesn’t quite have the zing of “Communist!” to it, but reality seldom gives us that exciting zing.
01/15/2014 at 7:33 am
People are morons or at least are sheep.. The usual Fox psychopaths figure if you say it enough times people will believe it… You are so right!
01/15/2014 at 8:16 am
Thank you, I get so frustrated hearing this one over and over again! But for those who are true believers in this nonsense, even the experience of someone like me who has lived through it won’t change their mind,
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01/16/2014 at 11:45 am
I asked a conservative friend of mine what he and his pals were going to do with themselves when Obama had left office without having instituted socialism, Sharia law, and had all the conservatives dragged off to the FEMA camps. I told him time was running out; Obama only has a couple years left in office to get all the work done. He just giggled and mumbled something about Hillary Clinton.
01/16/2014 at 8:04 pm
Haha, is that a true story? Including the Hillary mumble at the end? Too funny!
Seriously though, I gotta wonder what happens if the next President is a moderate Republican like Christy or Rubio (although Christie’s chances have just diminished). How do you follow up the high drama of “He’s a marxist/fascist/radical Muslim all rolled up in one!!” I have to think the ratings of the talk radio shouters will take a hit….
01/17/2014 at 9:30 pm
Well if Clinton is elected president, terms like “Kenyan Muslim Marxist” will probably be replaced by something like “Radical Feminazi” almost overnight.
01/17/2014 at 9:46 pm
Ah, yes–I almost forgot about all the overheated rhetoric of the Clinton years. Don’t worry ojmo, those FEMA camps will be back soon enough 😉 And maybe Vince Foster too??
01/17/2014 at 10:25 pm
Yeah, doubtless they’ll “dig up” poor old Vince. And resurrect Whitewater, too…
01/18/2014 at 9:22 am
All those people the Clintons murdered in Arkansas….
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01/18/2014 at 9:47 pm
And their souls won’t know peace until justice is served.
01/19/2014 at 9:31 am
LOL!
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01/16/2014 at 9:38 pm
The people who call Barack Obama a Communist who will install Sharia in the USA prove how easily ignorant people go to extreme lengths to prove their stupidity by speaking at constantly about concepts and ideas that they don’t know the first thing about. Morons.
01/17/2014 at 8:25 am
And how easily manipulative people can use extreme speech to make lots of money.
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