Is the Obama/Biden Ticket is Dangerous for America

It constantly amazes me that the Obama/Biden ticket do not get hammered hard by the GOP, and Republicans in general for their political leanings, especially when we need to call Obama out on his liberal and darn right socialist ideology, in light of his official website's call for a protest in Gov. Palin's event in Dallas today. Sen. Obama's message, and Sen. Biden's at times, is full of terms referring to his progressive, community organizing, taxing the rich and upper middle class, fair, equality, etc., only stopping short of using socialist terminology such as proletariat, bourgeoisie, and revolution. Note that whenever he speaks of change I cannot help it but to me it sounds as if he is saying revolution.

Although there are several distinctions between liberals and socialists they commonly agree on two things, of which Obama claims to hold true: freedom and organization (as in a body that acts on behalf and for benefit of others). Borrowing from the great political economist Friedrich Hayek, these two principles couldn't be more polar of opposites. For one, freedom doesn't care for organization (note Obama was a community organizer) because organization will, by its very hierarchical and anti-individualistic nature, will stifle freedom. Thus, organization, so beloved by socialists and liberals, diminishes individualism, the very thing we as Americans and free people hold dear, and it always tends to minimize freedom.

Which brings me to another point regarding the danger the Obama/Biden ticket brings. When you look closer to what a community organizer does, as was Obama who constantly reminds us, note that he holds fast to the basic principles of socialism. This is also reflected in his proposed tax policy, which is a socialist policy if you closely look. Now, it is not enough to say that this is a small matter thus it can be overlooked, but doing so is dangerous because he would apply these community organizer (socialist) principles on a national scale. At least in the Senate both, Obama and Biden, are checked by 98 others, and given his rhetoric the liberals who are now supporting him will eventually recognize the error of their support. Note that liberalism is more democratic than socialism and liberals for the most part do not always agree with the socialist progressive ideology.

And this brings me to my final point: Obama's obsession with change, or what socialists call progressivism. This term is also favored by liberals, as I have mentioned above, but leftist radicals love it just the same. As an ideology, progressivism is dangerous in that it proposes a Utopian vision and according to Obama only those with socialist tendencies can be trusted to carry it out - the rest of America, which clings to it's religion and guns, is to be reformed.

So why is progressivism in Obama's context dangerous? Looking back in history during the French Revolution, the progressives then with the motto of "Liberty, Brotherhood, Equality" -which sound familiar- caused major damage to the middle class and aristocracy, not to mention tens of thousands of dead who would not fall in line. But those who hurt most then were the poor and the disenfranchised the progressives were claiming to help. How about the progressive movement of the Bolsheviks during Lenin's October Revolution? Yet again the poor and everyone in general suffered by the actions of these progressives, holding Russia and half the world under a communist boot guised as socialism. Furthermore, the National Socialist movement in Germany, commonly referred to as Nazism, claimed to be progressive, and at one point Hitler claimed both his movement and Marxism have similarities and bear little distinction. Again, progressives as such caused millions of lives to be lost.

But I must warn that I am not convinced that Obama harbors such apocalyptic visions for our country, but consider for a moment what we, as Americans, can lose in terms of freedom. Consider the notion that if Obama wins, we will have a "democratic" President, liberal/quasi-socialist controlled House and Senate, and anti-constitutional Supreme Court and federal justices. What will we lose if that is the case? How about the fact that Obama's federal government will usurp the powers of the states, provide a socialist government, and eventually reduce our freedoms.

This is the reason why I used the word "dangerous" to refer to a possible Obama presidency.