Obama: Political Equivalent of Gresham's Law--Rise of the Anti-Leader
The Miracles of Chairman Obama: Studies in Secular Religious Phenomena
| - Kelly OConnell (Bio and Archives) Sunday, September 23, 2012 |
Can Barack leap factories in a single bound or defuse nuclear warheads with only his laser-like psyche? While breathless devotees believe so, the legend of the “world’s greatest leader” is actually an established trope within Marxist movements. In fact, it’s necessary such propaganda be presented by such movements to establish credibility.
Why? First, because leftist countries are typically in dire straights, needing great men to work superb feats of statecraft. Second, since these movements defy religion and all traditional political theory, they therefore present an ominous level of novelty. Here, an incredible captain is needed to steer such a new machine. Third, humanism is the essence of such movements, the leader must be the best of all people. And to have a superman-as-president makes not just perfect sense, but also maximizes the potential of such ideology. Finally, such movements have all the trappings of religion, offering a role for a new anti-religious pope.
Only one true Marxist revolution occurred in history, bringing Mao Zedong to power in China, becoming the greatest murderer in history. Mao was presented as godlike (much like Obama in 2007), the father of incredible feats. His miracles were presented to individuals increasingly traumatized by epic and utterly stupid government decision-making, ending up eliminating 77 million souls. (Mao’s bio: Who was Chairman Mao, Lionized by Obama’s White House?) Obama, too, was presented as a messianic political miracle-worker. And now, like all previous Marxist “messiahs,” Barack is exposed as utterly incapable of the simplest feats of leadership.
I. Mao Cult Literature
A. Why Mao Miracles?
Why did communist China feed the masses loads of bull manure which any astute person would instantly spot as fraudulent? According to The “Miracles” of Chairman Mao, a cult developed to honor Mao’s miracles to gain the support of the ignorant and naive. George Urban writes:
It is to the ordinary, mostly illiterate and superstitious masses the Mao Tse-tung devotional literature is principally addressed. Communist propagandists adopted the mental attitudes and vocabulary of the parable, fairy story and cautionary tale as they have come down in Chinese folklore and literature. Chairman Mao’s “miracles” are all geared to essential points in the Chinese Party’s program. Moreover, they evince the universal validity of Mao Tse-tung’s philosophy. The message is simply that Maoism is a cure-all: in hoc signo vinces. The naïve homilies, the endless laboring of moral points already painfully obvious, the chilling contrast between the good peasant and the wicked landlord, between the socialist masses and the “handful of capitalist roaders”, between God (Mao) and the Devil (Liu) have a classical Chinese and also an Old Testament ring. Some of this material that pours from the (officially controlled) press and radio has a quality that endears by virtue of its simplicity. Some of it attracts and amuses by its absurdity. But there are also items that assault our sense of natural justice. They assume the individual has no intrinsic merit and deserve no respect unless he is a worker, poor, or a lower-middle peasant.
B. A Few Examples of Mao Miracles:
1. Once-Silent Deaf-Mute School Rings With Joy
A handicapped school was visited by the joy of Mao’s inspiration:
Under the guidance of the great thought of Mao Tse-tung, the Mao Tse-tung’s thought medical team of the Chinese P.L.A. Unit 3125 treated 105 students of the Fuhsien School for Deaf-Mutes in Liaoning Province, enabling all of them to recover their hearing and speaking faculties. Now everyone of them can cheer “Long live Chairman Mao!” and recite quotations from Chairman Mao. After some training many can already sing The East Is Red and recite Chairman Mao’s “good old three” articles. This is a tremendous achievement gained in the upsurge of struggle-criticism transformation of the great proletarian cultural revolution.
2. Resurrecting the Dead
A worker was electrocuted, and dead 18 minutes when the doctor arrived. Yet, after the doctor was encouraged by Maoisms, the victim received a shot of adrenaline, and against all medical history, this man’s heart started beating again!
The doctor on duty felt it his responsibility to save this worker, but he recalled that according to a
foreign medical journal, it was impossible for a patient to revive after the heart had stopped for six minutes. Could he save this worker after a much longer time? Raising his head, he saw members of the workers and P.L.A. Mao Tse-tung’s thought propaganda teams at his side. Their advice when they came to the hospital rang in his ears: “You must follow Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s teachings, join the side of the workers, peasants and soldiers, and serve them.”
3. Surrendering Manure Inspires Poem
One day, when I went to work in the fields. I saw the plants in one of the team’s plots turning yellow. My first thought was to fetch the manure we had at home and put it on this plot. But on second thoughts, I remembered that no fertilizer whatever had as yet been spread on my family’s own household plot. What should I do? I turned to Chairman Mao’s works for the answer. Chairman Mao says in his In Memory of Norman Bethune: “We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people.”
II Miracles of Obama
Do Barack’s great feats really belong in the same category as Mao’s Miracles? Yes, for several important reasons. First, they are supposedly epic in nature. Second, these are touted breathlessly by government-controlled leftist journalists who never allow for error. Third, they are so totally falsified as to bring comic absurdity into any discussion. Finally, they are the wallpapering over the perpetual failure of all progressive movements. And here are Barack’s greatest works:
A. Lowering Seas, Cooling Planet
This Obama Miracle© is reported by Planet Depot:
Obama declared in a June 3, 2008 speech, that this will be “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Climate Depot can now announce it is official. Earlier this month, the European Space Agency’s Envisat monitoring, global sea level revealed a “two year long decline [in sea level] was continuing, at a rate of 5mm per year.”
B. Causing Peace to Fall Across Middle East
This Obama Miracle© occurred when Barack decided to end despotism in the Middle East, one tyranny at a time. In “A Moment of Opportunity” (May 19, 2011), Obama took credit for the Arab Spring revolutions:
Shouts of human dignity are being heard across the region. And through the moral force of non-violence, the people of the region have achieved more change in six months than terrorists have accomplished in decades. That’s why, two years ago in Cairo, I began to broaden our engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect. So we face an historic opportunity. We have embraced the chance to show that America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator. There must be no doubt that the USA welcomes change that advances self-determination and opportunity. Yes, there will be perils that accompany this moment of promise, etc etc
The results? Charles Krauthammer claims Barack created the unthinkable: a Shariah law zone across the Middle East where were once American-friendly states existed. Further, world war now seems possible. For this, we say—Thank you very much, Barack!
C. Saving or Creating Millions of Jobs
This Obama Miracle© occurred as Obama sensed a new Great Depression on steroids coming, deciding to invest almost a trillion dollars in saving the world’s economy. Obama said,
We have a package of $775 billion currently under discussion. Absent stimulus, the economy could lose another 3-4 million more jobs. The report confirms our plan will likely save or create 3-4 million jobs. 90% of these jobs will be created in the private sector. The remaining 10% are mainly public sector jobs we save, like the teachers, police officers, firefighters and others who provide vital services in our communities.
So, Obama claims he created/saved 6-8 million jobs! Do experts agree? Unfortunately, no. Tellingly, the category “jobs saved or created” was officially retired in late 2010. But Pro Publica’s non-partisan website reports 9 million jobs were lost during the recession. Sadly, Forbes states the long-term unemployed (out of work 6+ months) doubled from 2.6 million to 5.3 million. Meanwhile, unemployment and disability numbers leap each month.
D. Stopping the World’s Greatest Economic Crisis
This Obama Miracle© occurred when Obama saved America from Great Depression II (GDII) admitting “we had to hit the ground running and do everything we could to prevent a second Great Depression.” Crazy Joe Biden said: “...day after day, night after night, I sat beside him as he made one gutsy decision after another.” Wonderful.
Yet many analysts disagree. IBD’s John Merline, in Did Obama Really Prevent A Second Great Depression?, claims experts did not predict GDII, nor does present data support this an impending GDII, either. Markets hit bottom in 2008, a month before Obama entered office. Amazingly, Barack claims when reelected he will take increased numbers of unilateral actions to help grow the economy, without the pesky Congress, stating:
I’ve told my administration to keep looking every single day for actions we can take without Congress, steps to save consumer’s money, make government more efficient and responsive, and help heal the economy. And we’re going to be announcing these executive actions on a regular basis.
Amazingly, Forbe’s reports: Barack released a plan for government to take over the entire US economy, in case of disaster: (this is not made up!)
President Obama is determined to continue pushing his “progressive” agenda, regardless of constitutional limitations on his power. He aims to have his way by issuing more and more executive orders. The most ominous sign of possible things to come appeared on March 16, 2012, when President Obama signed executive order 13603 about “National Defense Resources Preparedness.”
This 10-page document is a blueprint for a federal takeover of the economy that would dwarf the looming Obamacare takeover of the health insurance business. Specifically, Obama’s plan involves seizing control of:
“All commodities and products capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals”; “All forms of energy”; “All forms of civil transportation”; “All usable water from all sources”; “Health resources—drugs, biological products, medical devices, materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment”; Forced labor (or “induction” as the executive order delicately refers to military conscription); Moreover, federal officials would “issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources.”; Each government bureaucracy “shall act as necessary and appropriate.”
E. Saving Detroit
This Obama Miracle© occurred in motor city! While on 60 Minutes Obama reared back and brayed like a mule when asked about Detroit’s fiscal health. Yet he still saved them, stating, “The American auto industry was on the verge of collapse. And some politicians were willing to let it just die. We said no. We believe in the workers of this state.” So what was the result of government investing billions in Detroit’s car makers? Michael Moore claims Obama did not save Detroit, “...he just fired a lot of people.” General Motors itself tried to buy the government out. Obama refused, saying “So now I want to say that what we did with the auto industry, we can do in manufacturing across America.” One writer claims GM is worse for Obama’s bailout.
Conclusion
Obama’s “miracles” are only slightly more believable than Mao’s. Coincidentally, all communist leaders attempted major national tasks they were not trained for, or even suited to attempt. Mao had his Great Leap Forward agrarian revolution starving 40 million Chinese to death. Obama’s Stimulus, the world’s largest economic booster, also failed dismally. So much for the “miracles” of socialists and Marxists! (but, don’t forget the Obama Youth Regiment, the Mmmm Mmmm school corps, and Obama song children “spontaneously” composed in his honor!)
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