Pravda: The sweet smell of marxism in America

Pravda: The sweet smell of marxism in America
By Michael van der Galien - Last updated: Sunday, October 11, 2009

You won’t believe it, I’m sure, but Russian newspaper Pravda (yeah, the former propaganda tool of the communist party) has zero appreciation for Barack Obama. Obama, the newspaper says, is trying to bring Marxism to America – and Americans are accepting it because he “radically transforms” their country with a friendly smile on his face.

American Marxists, Pravda says, are smarter than their ideological brethren abroad. They understand that you can’t ram marxism through voters’ throats the traditional way. No, you’ve got to take your time:

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years…

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights…

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another…

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

But there’s more:

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars…

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament)…

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs…

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too…

The newspaper proceeds to point out that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Obama and U.S. Congress not to follow the path to Marxism. ‘Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.’

Now, whether or not you believe that Obama is a Marxist – I don’t think he is – that’s not the point. The point here is that Russians and others who suffered under communism realize that what the U.S. Congress has done in recent months leads to disaster. There’s a reason Eastern Europe and Russia have become capitalistic; big government does not work. It has never worked, it doesn’t work now, and it will never work.

It’s that simple.

Even if you believe that Congress and the White House are acting with good intentions, you have to admit that these good intentions will produce horrific results. And politicians shouldn’t be judged on what they want the effect of their policies to be, but on the effect their policies have.

No matter what his intentions may be, Obama has set the U.S. on a dangerous path towards collectivism and Big Government. In that, Pravda is correct.

Cross posted at Hot Air.