The conundrum of liberal politics, Obama's presidency, and the evolution of progressive politics in America revolves around the banking industry and the corporate world. Allow the business world too much power in government, and corruption sets in. Allow the government too much power in business, and tyranny sets in. President Barack Obama, like his hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is allowing both to happen. He agreed to allow the business world support his candidacy with money and influence, and in turn Obama would apply government control of the business world with bailouts, while secretly keeping them in business, despite their failed business model.
As a community organizer, Barack Obama is quite adept in getting groups together to discuss a mutual strategy, and then convincing each of the participants that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for each of them. He applies his Alinsky-style community organization skills to each issue, convincing everyone that it is "the right thing to do," despite the ultra-liberal plans of economic destruction behind it.
President Hoover was a high taxing, high spending progressive that believed in using government programs like public works projects to create jobs. His strategy, combined with manipulation of the market by bankers through the Federal Reserve, ultimately resulted in the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression. Nonetheless, though Hoover's progressive policies were flawed, he recognized the dangers of the business world becoming involved in politics, and government controlling the business world.
After the end of his presidency, looking back, his wisdom increased. In 1940 Hoover pointed out that "In every single case before the rise of totalitarian governments there had been a period dominated by economic planners. Each of these nations had an era under starry-eyed men who believed that they could plan and force the economic life of the people. They believed that was the way to correct abuse or to meet emergencies in systems of free enterprise. They exalted the state as the solver of all economic problems. These men thought they were liberals, but they also thought they could have economic dictatorship by bureaucracy and at the same time preserve free speech, orderly justice, and free government. They might be called the totalitarian liberals. Directly or indirectly they politically controlled credit, prices, production of industry, farmer and laborer. They devalued, pump-primed, and deflated. They controlled private business by government competition, by regulation, and by taxes. They met every failure with demands for more and more power and control. . . Then came the chronic unemployment and frantic government spending in an effort to support the unemployed. Government debts mounted and finally government credit was undermined. And then came the complete takeover, whether it was called Fascism, Socialism, or Communism."
Remember, Herbert Hoover said that back in 1940.
Sound familiar?
Hoover refused to support the goals of "big business," and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1932 campaign attacked him saying that in reality Hoover was associated with the international bankers, and pandered to the demands of big business. Roosevelt painted himself as being for "the little guy," or the "man in the street," during a time when unemployment and a financial depression was, as Roosevelt accused, "brought about by big business speculators allied with Wall Street."
Problem is, despite all of his demonization of Wall Street, FDR was a creation of Wall Street, and an integral part of the New York Banking Fraternity.
The 1932 presidential campaign strategy of Roosevelt basically laid out that big business wanted Roosevelt in office, but he ran as an "anti-big business" candidate to get elected. Hoover was actually anti-big business, but Roosevelt, and the biased media, convinced the American voters that he was "pro-big business."
Roosevelt defeated Hoover, the American People took him for his word and looked the other way when FDR bailed out big businesses, and they didn't realize what was hitting them when Roosevelt implemented his unconstitutional New Deal. The New Deal, however, was no deal at all. In reality, it was a move towards a fascist state.
American Communist Whitaker Chambers said of the New Deal: "It was a genuine revolution, whose deepest purpose was not simply reform within existing traditions but a basic change in the social, and above all, the power relationship within the nation."
The American People, under the onslaught of the Great Depression, was willing to accept any salvation. They were in a confused state of mind, and when a nation is positioned into such a position of "crisis," it makes a nation weak and ripe for some kind of drastic extremist action wrapped up in the guise of "change for the good."
Mass frustration, whether as a reaction to a real crisis, or a manufactured crisis by a political agenda and a collaborative media, can bring about just about anything.
Roosevelt proclaimed the economic situation to be a national emergency, and a crisis is exactly what he needed. This kind of crisis would enable him to do things he normally would not have been able to do otherwise, and eventually could have led to the progressive socialists taking complete control of the government, and the private industry through the machinery of the government.
Frances Perkins, Roosevelt's Labor Secretary, reported that, "At the first meeting of the cabinet after the President took office in 1933, the financier and advisor to Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, and Baruch's friend, General Hugh Johnson, who was to become the head of the National Recovery Administration, came in with a copy of a book by Gentile, the Italian Fascist theoretician, for each member of the Cabinet, and we all read it with care."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of Obama's heroes, and Barry desires to model his presidency after FDR's. Obama, however, believes he can get more done than Roosevelt did, and move the American Government into the area of Fascism, or government control of the factors of production. Obama is indeed the new Roosevelt, with the same radical agenda, but with one additional danger. Barack's plans also include the teachings of radical Marxist Saul Alinsky, as well as the ideas behind the Cloward/Piven strategy of destroying a form of government so that a new one can be resurrected in its place.
This is why the November elections are so important. We must take back the House and Senate. Otherwise, under the guiding hand of Obama and the Congressional Democrats, we could see the rise of American Fascism, and embark upon a journey down the one way road to tyranny.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Quotes from "The Unseen Hand" by A. Ralph Epperson, Chapter 24, pages 269-271.
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