Understanding President Barack Obama - 1 of 2

Understanding President Barack Obama – 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, November 28, 2009

The writer, William A. Borst, Phd.D. has a special insight in these matters:
Mindszenty Report: June 2009: --Many college textbooks describe American history as a conflict between individual freedom and government power. In the U.S. this theory has transcended all its wars and economic crises since the Revolutionary War.

The economic crash of 2008-09 has been one of the most potentially devastating events ever to happen to Americans as a perfect storm of high employment, a steep decline in real estate values & housing foreclosures saturated the airways & the newspapers with apocalyptic cries of the end of existing world.

A country’s basic freedoms are vulnerable during such times of distress. The best aid that unscrupulous politicians have during such times is ignorance and indifference. A recent edition of Investors Daily Journal wondered why more people were not worried about President Barack Osama’s escalating socialistic solutions for the country’s financial crisis…. The conclusion that most people had not idea of what was happening because of educational and media indoctrination which had effectively screened them from the truth.

Socialism in America has not just happened. It has evolved over a long period of time. It essential fallacy is that it cannot deliver on its promises because they run counter to the grain of human nature, which thrives on the personal incentive to better the condition while preserving individual liberty. No matter how noble socialism’s EGALITARIAN rhetoric, it can only deliver on its promises by using its substantial power to coerce the people to reduce their standard of living to the lowest denominator...

American Socialist Norman Thomas once said, 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 knowing how it happened. … creeping socialism has come true under a veneer of a liberal addiction to expecting eternal progress.

Socialistic creeping evolved into the baby steps of the Progressive Movement at the dawning of the 20th century. It began in the big cities as several progressive mayors enacted gas and water socialism where the cities owned the local utilities as a matter of public policy.

…many American progressives got their inspiration from studying at German universities where they came to appreciate the Hegelian theory of a strong state and Prussian militarism as the most efficient way of organizing modern societies.

Progressivism’s final product was more homespun. Early in American history political factions in America revolved around the political philosophies of Thomas Jefferson, who believed in small independent units of economic activity and Alexander Hamilton who saw the country’s future in a strong centralized government that fostered nationalism, manufacturing and export. Herbert Croly, the founder of the New Republic wedded the means of Hamilton’s Big Government with Jeffersonian welfare ends into a dynamic hybrid that has driven the American political engine for 100 years….

Due to the progressives, the American people have been conditioned to petition government in times of crisis. This idea ran counter to the American individualistic spirit until the Great Depression of the 1930’s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s massive intervention caused liberal historians to credit erroneously his New Deal with rescuing America’s free enterprise system from itself and its failed policy. This fallacy is a mirror of the true picture. FDR did more than any prior president to derail America from its free enterprise system. According to James Powell’s 2003 book, “FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and his New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression,” 13 years of Roosevelt conditioned the American people to call on Washington to solve all its economic and social needs…