Chairman Obama

After seeing what Michelle Malkin calls “The Obama Children’s Chorus,” I thought about a class I took as part of my International Studies minor in college. It was a course in modern Chinese history. Of course, the Cultural Revolution was something on which we spent a good deal of time. I’m not sure if we watched Morning Sun, but I remember seeing children singing about Chairman Mao, and that was the first thing that came to mind, when I saw this:

China Pictorial, May 1969, Vol. 251, p. 31

The striking resemblance between Obama’s and Mao’s worldviews, political influences, ideology, economic policies and worshipful followers are too great for anyone who has studied the Cultural Revolution to ignore.

The radicalism of the 1960s has culminated in the viable candidacy of one of the most far-left ideologues in our nation’s history. The values his voting record reflects are not the traditional values of the founding fathers or the vast majority of Americans. Like Chairman Mao, Obama has used the fear of instability – global and domestic – to unite many people under his image in support of undefined “change.”

The basic idea seems to be: We don’t like what we have, and anything different would be better; this guy is as different as can be, so we’re going to go with him, and see if that works for us. The irrationality of this sort of thought is palpable. Just because someone is different, doesn’t mean they’re better. “Diversity training” which has been going on in this country since the advent of Affirmative Action often uses the phrase “different is good” or something similar. The general idea they put forth is that we should be, not just open but eager to embrace whatever is new and different. This is great, when it comes to marketing products in a capitalist free market economy… not so good when picking people to run the country.

Now, I’m not saying that we need “more of the same.” What I’m saying is that you have to rationally, thoughtfully examine your political candidates, their records, their associations, their ideas, their histories, their influences and the ways in which they claim they want to make changes in our society. We should try, as best we can, to uphold the traditional values on which our nation was built, and not undermine the rights and privileges afforded to us by the Constitution.

These are simple principles by which most people, I believe, would agree we should abide. Unfortunately, the current political trend seems to veer startlingly in another direction – a direction that will lead us away from traditional values, away from free market capitalism, towards socialism, towards bigger government, towards higher taxes, towards fewer protected Constitutional rights and towards an American Cultural Revolution. That’s what liberals wanted in the 1960s, and that’s what we’re getting with Barack Obama.

The irony is that children, who are nearly always heralded as “our future,” are singing the dirge as our nation writhes in the first hours of its death throes.