Nightmare, Paranoia, or a Glimpse of the Future?

Watch­ing the actions of the Obama admin­is­tra­tion has sev­eral times led me to sus­pect that its ulti­mate agenda was a night­mare Amer­ica, mil­i­tar­ily defanged, social­ist, bank­rupt, to be cre­ated  using a cou­ple of strate­gies from the 60’s, and that these strate­gies, refined by 40 years of per­co­lat­ing in the cul­ture medium pro­vided by the zeit­geist of anti-​​capitalism, nar­cis­sism, and bit­ter­ness reg­nant in the uni­ver­si­ties and intel­li­gentsia, might suc­ceed where they had failed earlier.

The two strate­gies were

1. the Black Pan­ther /​ Weath­er­man /​ SLA one of set­ting ele­ments of soci­ety at one another’s throats and then com­ing in to pick up the pieces and
2. the Cloward-​​Piven strat­egy, wherein a society’s efforts to help peo­ple are inten­tion­ally over­whelmed by arti­fi­cially inflated demand until the soci­ety col­lapses as a result of not being to honor its good intentions.

It seemed that effort was being advanced at every oppor­tu­nity by the left­ist academe-​​intelligentsia nexus which views every­day Amer­ica the way ants view aphids.

Ant tend­ing aphids to get the glu­cose they secrete

Nor­mally I could lift the grate in the floor of my brain and force such thoughts down into the Denial Dun­geon.  But today I read a post at Hot Air and a com­ment to the post.  When you put the two together that grate in the floor pops open and out swarm the monsters.

Obama demanded fis­cal aus­ter­ity this week … at the same time he lifted the cap on US debt from $12.4 tril­lion to $14.3 tril­lion.  The dif­fer­ence between the two is about what the fed­eral gov­ern­ment spent for all of FY1999.  It’s half of what Obama pro­poses to spend in FY2011.  Democ­rats have raised spend­ing by over a tril­lion dol­lars a year since tak­ing con­trol of Con­gress in 2007.

And you say to your­self, This can’t be an acci­dent. They are going to bor­row the entire 1999 bud­get and spend it on top of the bud­get they already have?  There is no way even mem­bers of Con­gress can be this thought­less.  This care­less.  This blasé about the debt and the deficit.

Then you read the comment.

All the build­ing blocks are being put in place to “nudge” Amer­ica into a finan­cial abyss. The resul­tant “cri­sis” will not go to waste, and dra­con­ian “emer­gency pow­ers” will be invoked. Extra-​​ordinary steps to “secure” Amer­i­can resources and means of pro­duc­tion will taken to “ensure equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion” of “vital pub­lic ser­vices” “dur­ing these try­ing times”. Obama’s monot­one, sooth­ing assur­ances will come across the air­waves, “…some might say these resposi­ble steps are unnec­es­sary,… that they rep­re­sent a rad­i­cal depar­ture from our con­sti­tu­tional norms,… Let me be clear…”.

If you have not made the pre­scient prepa­ra­tions, put in place the vital infra­struc­ture to “Go Galt“, you had bet­ter “Hope” you know some­one who has that is very, very fond of you, ’cause this is the “Change” that is in the cards. And it will “fun­da­men­tally trans­form America!”

Archimedes on Feb­ru­ary 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM

Cou­pled with Morrissey’s Hot Air post there is noth­ing in that com­ment that I can point to and say That’s wrong!

Read the whole post at Hot Air.  Might as well know the worst.

Way cool, Fausta! Thanks for the link!

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Tags: congress, debt, Obama Agenda, transformation