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If you were a socialist....

Posted by Reasonsjester on Monday, August 24, 2009 7:26:51 PM
If you were a socialist or even a communist looking to overthrow the United States government, what would you do?

You might:

1. Run a candidate for president with an obscure background

........(see here; here; here; here; and now here)

2. Select a candidate whose race deflects criticism from his (socialist) positions

........(see here; here; here; here; here and the follow-up here; relatedly, here; especially here and now here; and less seriously, here)

3. Make sure that the candidate is eloquent and articulate, but unable to think independently or "off-teleprompter"

........(see here; here; and most recently, here)

4. The candidate should be cool and confident;

........(here; here; and especially here)

but he should have malignant narcissistic personality should the public turn on him

........(see here; here; here; and especially here)

5. Obtain the support of communist organizations

........(see here; here; here; and additionally here)

6. Decry any labels of socialist ), communist, and Marxist as "unfair"

........(see here, here; here?; comically here and its debunking here and here; and especially see here)

7. Demonize and attack anyone who exposes your candidate as a socialist

........(see here; here; here; and here)

8. Use labor unions and community activists to engage in voter fraud if necessary to secure election victory

........(see here; here; and especially here)

9. Use the media to herald your "post-racial" and "post-political" candidate as a "savior"

........(see here; here; video here; books here, and here)

10. Have the media hide a radical voting record;

......(also here, here, and here)

history of attendance in a black radical church;

....... (also here, here, and here)

and describe him as a moderate(also here, here, and laughably here)

11. Surround the candidate with communist advisers;

.......(see here, here, here, here; and about his communist background here, here, and especially here)

and Machiavellian thugs

.......(see here, here, here, and here)

12. Procure favor from Wall Street, which is allowed to loot the public treasury upon election

........(see here; here; here; here; here; here; here; and especially video here)

13. Gain the support of strong labor unions like UAW by insulating employment from a market downturn through the nationalization of industry

.......(see here; here; and here)

14. Upon election, pass a huge spending bill that pays off political cronies

.......(see first here; then here; here; here; and especially here)

15. Move to eventually nationalize the banks so that the government directly controls the issuance (or non-issuance) of credit

.......(see here, here, and here and now here)

16. Have the Fed pump more currency into the money supply than the down market can handle; leading at first to a Wall Street stock rise, but eventually to massive inflation and the destruction of the dollar as the global currency of choice

......(see here, here, especially here and here and here)

17. Increase unemployment and government dependency to ensure a political stranglehold on the government

......(see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and especially here)

18. Put thousands of Republican-donating auto dealers out of business, protect Democrat donors

.......(see here, here, here, here, here, and here)

19. Pass a "cash for clunkers" program, which is corporate welfare (mostly for the Japanese!) and which puts thousands more Americans in debt, while adding to the budget crisis

.......(see here, here, here, here, here, and here)

20. Grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants to add a huge voting demographic

.......(see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here)

21. Pass a gigantic new government-run healthcare program that will eventually lead to control over nearly one-sixth of the United States economy and the life and death of each citizen

.......(see here, here, here, and especially here and here...etc....)

22. Give millions of illegal immigrants access to this "free" government-run (or taxpayer-subsidized) healthcare

.......(see here!, here?, and here)

23. Contract community organizers to perform the census and count illegal immigrants; this will give the Democrats de facto around 32 seats in the People's House

......(see here, here, here, here, and especially here and especially video here)

24. Propose more "voluntarism" to build up a "domestic emergency force" that is "just as well-funded and well-equipped" as the military

.......(see here, video here and here, and especially here)

25. Build a patron-client network of "green jobs," and appoint a criminal communist to head its administration

.......(see here, here, here, here, and here)

26. Pass climate change tax legislation that will strangle the energy economy and which will drive up costs in every industry

......(see here, here, here, here, and video here)

27. Raise taxes and let tax cuts expire to assault businesses that are left

......(see here, here, and video here and then here, here, and finally here)

28. Continue to forbid the drilling for oil and gas by American companies in domestic territory; even as the government allows China to drill off-shore;

.......(see here and here)

subsidize drilling in other nations (like a Brazilian company whose largest stakeholder is George Soros)

......(see here! and here)

29. Build ties with dictatorial regimes across the globe; including with socialists in Latin America;

.......(see here; here; here, here, here;here, here, here; here, here, and here)

Islamists in the Middle East;

......(see first here; then here, here, here, here, here, here; here and here; here and here; here and here; here, here and video here; and on Israel here, here, here, and now here)

and communists in China

......(see here, here, and here)

30. Keep American troops, which are the most patriotic and dangerous of Americans, tied up in expensive wars overseas

......(see first here; then here, here, here, a great article here, and now here!)

31. Demoralize them by refuting that the goal of the wars is victory

.......(see here)

32. Ask for even more troops to be sent overseas

.......(see here)

33. Mobilize "emergency preparedness" teams to dispense vaccines (that are patented well in advance of an "crisis") to treat an overhyped "pandemic" such as swine flu

.........(see most recently here, then here, here, here, here, here)

34. Authorize the government to build large detainment camps to hold criminals/terrorists/political dissenters

.......(see here, here, here, see video here; and for background here (warning: chilling))

35. Propose an amendment to make the socialist president dictator for life

.......(see here, and here)

***Using a question as a premise for a thought experiment is not an invalid way for a political analyst or other informed citizen to seek to string together events and policies to form a discernible and predictable pattern (though one must anticipate and consider alternative hypotheses and weigh contradicting evidence very seriously). In Politics Among Nations (synopsis here), Hans Morgenthau, a former Secretary of the Treasury under FDR, explains how one can gain insight into the actions of a statesman by thinking like one:
We assume that statesmen think and act in terms of interest defined as power, and the evidence of history bears that assumption out. That assumption allows us to retrace and anticipate, as it were, the steps a statesman-past, present, or future has taken or will take on the political scene. We look over his shoulder when he writes his dispatches; we listen in on his conversation with other statesmen; we read and anticipate his very thoughts. Thinking in terms of interest defined as power, we think as he does, and as disinterested observers we understand his thoughts and actions perhaps better than he, the actor on the political scene, does himself.
It would be irresponsible to consider the results of a thought experiment as proof of one conclusion of another. The results are often intuitive and tendentious. The thought experiment thus comes with an important caveat. The process of answering a hypothetical question, however, may shed light on the future actions of a government or statesman and may help us to anticipate future policies or events.
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