Repeating history

George Santyana famously commented that “those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This observation cannot be applied to our President because he remembers and embraces the past Utopian dream of communism (phased through socialism). His liberalism equals as Santyana also wisely observes, “the genteel tradition’s political expression.” Obama rules with the trident of liberalism, gentility and communism held firmly in his left hand.

A “Black Book of Communism,” published in 1997 chronicles in 800 pages the horrors and deaths as the result of communism under such dictators as Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot in China, Ethopia, Russia and Cambodia. No matter this to the true believer. The dream of a new order (which Obama calls the way the world should be in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech) just was not pursued with sufficient vigor. Just not enough support was rallied for the cause. Well, our new President is seeing to that with the expansion of federal employees at a rapid clip. Though Obama merely continues the trend in Washington to perennially expand government jobs, since 2007 the numbers have doubled; the salaries have virtually tripled. Those marching to the false tune of his revolutionary drummer are now being paid, not $30,000, but over $100,000. The Obama administration adds 10,000 new jobs to its payroll each month with the hope of adding many new comrades to its loyal army. Talk about waging an unjust war. Little talk of this unjust war against common sense in America’s economy will ever come from Obama’s TOTUS.

Almost a century of living was not sufficient for Santyana to find the truth. His observations about the intellectual needs of a religion to combat secularization in American culture were right on but his embrace of Fascism reflects his left-leaning roots. Once a liberal, communist snob, always a person dangerous to personal freedom.