The Obama response to any discussion of his involvement with a former
Weatherman leader, engaged in radical revolutionary tactics in the 1960s,
has been that he (Obama) was only eight years old at the time of the Ayers
involvement in acts of overt sedition, and that he has since denounced
those
actions. This, of course, is irrelevant to the issue of whether or not
Obama and Ayers share a common Marxist ideology--a common vision of a new
monolithic totalitarian Socialist America. Ayers may have changed his
tactics, that does not mean that he has changed his goals.
When Lenin and Trotsky left Russia, at a time when they were unable to
manage a successful uprising, that did not mean an abandonment of their
loathsome Marxist ideology. They were simply biding their time for the
right moment. When Hitler abandoned the tactics of trying to launch
violent
revolution in a beer hall, after serving a jail term over the incident, it
did not mean that he had abandoned his ultimate goal of a Monolithic
Socialist Germany. He simply changed his tactics and bided his time.
Conservatives need to stop worrying about Ayers earlier tactics and focus
on
Ayers' & now Obama's continuing objective. For half a Century, too many
have been dazzled by the ideological sleight of hand, that some of the few
actually clever Leftists employed at the height of the Legislative
investigations of conspiratorial Communism in the 1950s, to gradually
desensitize Americans to what had actually been going on. The tactic has
been simple but effective. Always focus on the "conspiracy" aspect at the
expense of the actual ideology that the conspirators employed. Always
imply
that those discussing Leftist activity are paranoid--"Conspiracy
Theorists"--that they see Communists "under people's beds." The tactic
took
a while to really gain traction, but in time it did, and lately to an
extent
where even Conservative radio talk show hosts are often very careful to
distance themselves from any one who might be labelled a "Conspiracy
Theorist."
Whether one wants to call the Obama association with known Marxist
activists
a "conspiracy," or not, is wholly irrelevant to the question of the
direction that an Obama Administration would take! Would Lenin and
Trotsky
have been more acceptable to Americans, had they like Hitler in Germany,
changed tactics and sought power through political manipulation? Was
Hitler more acceptable to Americans, because he had forged the biggest
voting block in Germany in 1933? Because he, like Obama, could draw vast
cowds, filling great stadiums, cheering hypnotic, sloganized rhetoric,
rather than firing into a beer hall ceiling and shouting "freedom?" Are
we
more concerned with the tactics of the moment or the future of the free
societies that the Founding Fathers vindicated in the Revolution and
sought
to protect in the Constitution?
There is little doubt but that the "Changes" Obama wants for America are
the
same ones that his mentor William Ayers has been pursuing all his adult
life. Obama made it very clear, when he was distancing himself from Rev.
Wright, where he stood. He told us that while Wright had embraced the
Conservative value of self-help--personal responsibility--that would never
work until we "changed America." Self-help, personal responsibility, has
always worked in America. It is the fundament for our history, for all
our
success, all our prosperity, all our hopes. Moreover, even from the
standpoint of Black America--which is no part of Obama's roots--Booker T.
Wa****ngton demonstrated to all who were paying attention, that the same
ethic worked very well indeed. The decline in the well being of the Black
inner cities of America, since the New Deal and Civil Rights movements,
can
be directly traced to the later rejection of Booker T. Wa****ngton's
American
values. (See our October Feature on Obama:
http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/obama.htm.)
William Flax
October 26, 2008
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