Obama is a mysterious socialist

Let's be blunt, Obama is a Socialist with a well suppressed, virtually unknowable background. We've reached the point where an incumbent Socialist president with no history may rule with impunity, and almost half of America is OK with that.

If re-elected, I believe he will change our current state of partial freedom and liberty, to a state of certain serfdom. When the Government owns our property and controls our income, we become serfs. Once freedom is lost, it is lost forever.

So let's examine life under Obamic Socialism. At first, he will certainly increase taxes on “the rich” , increase taxes and regulations on industries, and cut our military capabilities to 2nd class status, endangering us and the world. Our children will continue becoming indebted wards of the state, evermore dependent on government for meals, daily activities, and indoctrination from womb-to-tomb, like “Julia” on Obama's website. Then, some emergency (riots against entitlement cut-backs, terrorist attacks, whatever) will cause him to “temporarily” suspend the Constitution. At that point we're doomed. We will then be assigned jobs “according to our abilities” . We will all be given food, housing, and health care “according to our needs” . Read “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer for firsthand accounts how Hitler accomplished this after his election to power.

Why does Socialism have such allure? Many Americans believe that having government bureaucrats controlling our personal resources will somehow be more just and fair than controlling them ourselves. That bureaucrats will execute this responsibility with altruism and benevolence. That pooling all resources together will allow fair and just re-distribution of wealth to all “according to their needs” . This is classical Socialism, and assumes we'll all be happy working for the common good. But because of human nature, it just doesn't work. People work for their own benefit first, and for others secondarily. In 1884 William Lecky said it best. “The desire of each man to improve his circumstances, to reap the full reward of superior talent, or energy, or thrift, is the very mainspring of the production of the world. Take these motives away, cut off all the hopes that stimulate, among ordinary men, ambition, enterprise, invention, and self-sacrifice, and the whole level of production will rapidly and inevitably sink.”

Unfortunately the imposition of Socialism requires force. This force will at first be threats and fines, but failing this, will evolve into real force – imprisonment, beatings, torture, and killings. It will all be legal since the Constitution will be gone.

“Oh you're exaggerating, that can't happen in America, we're educated and enlightened” you say. Think again. Our public school system has been turning out undereducated unenlightened Socialists for decades, and they're now in positions of authority.

As Socialism was imposed on Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and others, the inevitable results were that the economy collapses, and they ended up with bread lines, grey cinder-block cities, and universal corruption and destitution. And what did they do with their dissidents, homosexuals, intellectuals, mentally ill, and other misfits? They killed them, or interned them for “re-education” . Read “The Gulag Archipelago” for firsthand accounts of how this worked in Russia – the enlightened, highly educated, first into space, Russia.

So what's different about voting ourselves into Socialism under Obama? Only that it's peacefully self-inflicted instead of by violent overthrow. The end result is the same, universal serfdom, and worse, there will be no America left to rescue us. We are the only ones that can rescue anyone, but we must first keep ourselves free. Please vote to keep America free in November. It may be our last chance to do so.

DON CAGE
Longmont

Republicans have once again shown their true priorities, and—surprise—it's NOT "pro-life".

A bill being submitted in both houses of the U.S. Congress right now would allow pregnant women to receive protection from termination when their doctor recommends that they be temporarily given certain accommodations, much like those provided to people with disabilities.

The bill was prompted by the stories of two women. One was told by her doctor to stay hydrated to avoid bladder infections during her pregnancy, but she was told by Wal Mart, her employer, that only cashiers were allowed to have water bottles and she didn't qualify. When she continued to keep her water bottle with her anyway, she was fired. Another woman was in the later stages of pregnancy when she was warned by her doctor that to avoid miscarriage she must not lift heavy objects for the final trimester. Her employer, a nursing home where she worked as an activity director, fired her when she sought—and received— help to move some heavy objects. Both women sued their former employers, and both lost.

Last week the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was introduced in the Senate, matching one that was introduced last Spring in the House. It would allow women to receive accommodations for their medical needs when they are pregnant without having to worry about losing their jobs. The bill however, is not expected to pass. Why? Because NOT ONE "pro-life" Republican, in fact not one Republican at all, has expressed support for it.

And why won't the right-wing support such a life-affirming measure? They claim that allowing a Wal Mart employee to carry a water bottle is too onerous a regulation for business, and might cut into some of Wal Mart's monumental profits.

Anyone who is still under the delusion that the "pro-life" movement is about "saving babies" or "affirming human life" need only put that belief up against the all-consuming power of the almighty dollar for which the Republicans truly live and breathe. It's not about "life". It's about controlling women.