Besides questions about whether President Obama was born in the US and whether he is in reality a Muslim, Obama has been called a Socialist, a Communist and even a Fascist. The Left hoots with derision when any of these accusations is made, as if merely making the accusation certifies the accuser as having intelligence below that of a mollusk.
However, the reason these rumors persist is because Obama keeps doing things that make people doubt his Americanism, his Christianity and his devotion to economic freedom.
The reaction to cries of “Socialist” or “Communist” ranges from derision to contempt. I can’t help but think of the Left’s attitude toward “McCarthyism”, referring to the “Anti-American Activities” investigations of the 1950s. What is forgotten is that those investigations actually did find Communists and their sympathizers in the government and Hollywood.
The Left’s reaction to charges of Communism are very much like their reaction to belief in a literal Devil. But as someone famously said, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”. Communists do exist. So do Socialists and Fascists (Nazis) and they have ideology that can be defined and identified.
The Left often calls conservatives Nazis, but they usually don’t have a clear definition of what a Nazi is and they aren’t using the term to refer to Fascist economic or political policy. They just use it as an epithet: “Your mother wears combat boots and you’re Hitler.”
Conversely, I believe when conservatives say that Obama or members of his administration are Socialists, Communists or Fascists, they ARE referring to policies or statements of those people. In fact, it’s pretty easy to find admissions by people like Van Jones, who for a while was the “Green Jobs Czar”, that they are, in fact Communists. If you call someone a Communist after they say they are one, no one can call you crazy.
The dictionary definitions of Communism and Fascism show that they are both subsets of Socialism, the main difference between them being that Communists believe the government should OWN the means of production in an economy and Fascists believe the government should CONTROL the means of production. Looking at the policies of the Obama Administration, it’s easy to find examples of both philosophies.
Speaking of “Green Jobs”, one glaring example is the Department of Energy’s “investments” which are turning out to be expensive boondoggles. Surprisingly, some of the best investigative reporting on this has come from CBS News( ! ). CBS reports that the are no fewer than a dozen companies that the Dept. of Energy loaned taxpayer money to that are bankrupt or headed that direction (video).
This activity in providing funding to companies makes the Federal government look like a venture capitalist. But, asked the CBS reporter, is that a proper role for government?(answer: No! Duh!). Manipulation of the “free” market to this extent can only be called “Fascist”.
Another example is Obama’s involvement with General Motors and Chrysler, to the point of transferring ownership to the Feds and unions, leaving bondholders out in the cold, ousting GM’s CEO and requiring them to close dealerships. In the case of the government owning part of General Motors, that is, by definition “Communist”.
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