Resistance

11Oct09

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened. – Norman Thomas

Senator for just 143 days before becoming President, President for less than two weeks before being nominated for the Nobel Peace prize, and less than a year before winning it. If there has been a more meteoric rise to power in American history, I have yet to hear about it.

Barack Obama Flags are being sold in earnest, rather than satire. In just ten months more iconic imagery has been created and distributed of Obama than any other sitting president.

A cult of personality is not unlike hero worship. But where hero worship grows organically and innocently, a cult of personality is exclusively manufactured.

Cults of personality are seen in regimes that seek to transform the very nature of a society, in accordance with a set of 'revolutionary' ideals. A single leader comes to be associated with the transformation, without whom, the transformation cannot occur.

Like the "great helmsman" Mao Zedong who said he would lead China from poverty into a bright communist future, Barack Obama's change is a lie. It is not a rebuke of the big government machine that left Americans feeling alone, and without hope. It is an escalation.

It's time to get off the fence. You either resist tyranny, or you are complicit in it.