Of course, it is not fair to compare our current American democratic leaders with the Bolsheviks.Yes, they both use the same slogans in their speeches.

Yes, they both stir up envy and class warfare to distract from their failures.

Yes, both political movements sought control of the banks as the foundation for their new egalitarian vision.

And yes, they are both opposed to free speech, as was made clear by the reaction of American leftists to the recent Supreme Court decision.

But you would never find a Czar anywhere in the Soviet government.

By SVETLANA KUNIN

Perspectives Of A Soviet Immigrant (No. 6)

David Kupelian, The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell us Corruption Disguised as Freedom, Nashville, 2005. p. 183.

The Script:  (for causing legal and cultural changes to occur without benefit of reasonable fact-based analysis)

Desensitize by changing the terminology.  Examples: homosexual–>gay, abortion–>choice, socialized medicine–>affordable health care.  Do this until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome and the new terms merit no more than a shrug of the shoulders.

Jam and silence the opposition with widespread intimidation and misrepresentation of their motives.  Example: Matthew Shepard was robbed, beaten and later died.  Subsequent investigation showed that he was targeted for his money, not his homosexuality.  Nevertheless, Christian Coalition, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family were all widely accused of fomenting an anti-homosexual climate and were associated with Shepard’s murderers.

Conversion of the negative into the positive.  Hate is love, lies are truth.  Positive elements are magnified, negative elements are completely suppressed.  Classic propaganda techniques here.

Rewrite history.  Revisionism including fabricating new historical figures, giving new motives and new behaviors to existing historical figures, and creating historical outcomes that never existed.  For example, many of the early Nazis were homosexual, however, anyone daring to criticize homosexuality today is labeled a Nazi.

This is from David Kupelian’s, The Marketing of Evil.  It illustrates the brain washing techniques issuing from the Obama administration with each new day.  No matter the issue, the subjects are interchangeable, and the script remains the same.

If the thousands of pages of new federal legislation Obama has inspired don’t succeed in killing off the last remnants of America’s constructive capacity, surely the tedium of the left’s non-stop propaganda war against America will bore the country to death.

THE DAILY BLADE: Never Mind Marxism. Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?: Part II

Examining President Barack Hussein Obama’s ubiquity – when your favorite TV show has not been pre-empted yet again by one of his prime time speeches or press conferences, you can still watch his Public Service Announcement (video link) about national service that gets heavy rotation, even on FOX – an unabashedly worshipful article by Jennifer Senior in New York magazine noted: “Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-time press conferences, the same number held by George W. Bush in his entire presidency.” [Read more…]

Affordable Health Care for America Act, Section Summaries [Read more…]

By: Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor of The Washington Examiner and proprietor of Tapscott’s Copy Desk blog on washingtonexaminer.com.
September 24, 2009

If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement – the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.

Not everybody on the left, of course. Some of the folks I most admire in this town are liberals whose work on behalf of values like transparency in government and protecting civil liberties is remarkable and essential.

Still, that this danger is real and growing becomes more obvious as public opposition grows to the president’s across-the-board campaign to turn Washington into the all-powerful, centralized behemoth that Woodrow Wilson and FDR could only dream about. [Read more…]

…are easy.  “Have a nice day.”  Costs nothing.  Makes someone feel good.  “I wish you well.”  Who would look at that sentiment too closely?  It’s simply wonderful.  Surely anyone who says those words must be good.  Likewise for all the good intentions espoused by the left such as, “Everyone should have health insurance, a college education, a job, a car, American citizenship, a home, unconditional respect from other people, a pure life in a pristine state of nature” and many other good things.  Who could seriously question any of those good intentions?

So, how did the left succeed in owning the image that they are the only group in society who hold good intentions for other people?  More importantly, how did they do so while maintaining allegiance to social, economic and political methods that fail so completely to actually bring about the intended results of their good intentions?

How does the left live with the dissonance between the intentions they continually express, and the poor results their systems actually produce?  Doesn’t it keep them awake at night?  Doesn’t it worry them that leftist methods have not produced a single successful society?  Ever.  In all of recorded history.  Wouldn’t that give a reasonable person second thoughts?

And woe unto the heretics who mention the taboo of this inconvenient fact.  The left heaps abuse onto them, doubles down on the chanting, and shouts down the dissenters.

Political and economic systems are always a choice between least-bad alternatives.  So how does one get away with choosing the worst of the least-bad alternatives, and come away with people thinking they’ve chosen the best?

Is it just good marketing?  They’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do.

• to not drink the KoolAid, and
• to critically analyze every public policy, regardless of source and regardless of how magically it is marketed, and
• to only support public policies objectively proven to work, that cannot be done more effectively by private resources, that do not diminish American constitutional freedoms, that do not aggrandize politicians, and that do not expand federal or state governments, and
• to subscribe to Iowahawk.

I see no grounds for hope that these brainwashed tools will come to reason.  When we do not submit to them, when we do not endorse their cult, they will get angry.  They have power now and will resort to force.  Innocent people will die at their hands.  When that happens I will be one of those killed.  This has happened many times throughout history and will happen again.  We are not immune.  Power has only increased the left’s lust for more power.  The faiths of their economic, social and political myths must be satisfied.  Outcomes don’t matter, only belief matters–that and salesmanship.  Crushed skulls are merely inconvenient.