The Party of McCarthy just loves to wave the red flag, and all the ugly demons of the conservative right are coming out to play at the end of their era.
Bill Kristol contributed to this meme early, but it never took off. He and Rover tried to paint Obama as a Marxist through the “religion as opiate of the masses” loop early in the campaign to no effect.
But with a new opening provided by Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment, the desperate puppeteers of McCain’s campaign are willing to give it another go.
And with nothing else to write about except Obama’s growing lead in the polls, the MSM is giving it oxygen. What an insult to socialists!
Not only is Obama not a socialist, he’s not even a great liberal, if his votes on FISA, his modest health care reform proposal, and his silence on Proposition 8 are any examples.
So if this cautious and careful man is labeled as Socialist, then the entire concept of liberalism is un-American and socialistic.
I have labeled a radical feminist by people trying to silence or diminish my arguments, and always laughed to think of what the accuser might do if ever confronted by a real radical feminist, as I routinely was! It’s tempting to shrug off the ridiculous face of the label.
But we shouldn’t. The Republican Party has successfully shifted the center of this country dramatically rightward through just such successful branding. A growing aristocracy was said to be over-burdened by “death taxes”; tax breaks for the rich became “economic incentives”, and “big government liberals” have been the bogeymen preventing us from joining the rest of the developed universe in providing health care to our citizens.
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Power doesn’t give up easily. And we must push back on these memes before they strangle what hope there is for a truly different tomorrow.
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