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The Audacity of Big Brother
No, it’s not a Photoshop. That’s an Obama tapestry at one of his campaign headquarters. Creepy, huh? I guess they got tired of the Che Guevara flag and decided on the new, improved Marxism poster boy. (h/t: Slublog)
This all fits a very disturbing pattern. Indulge me a moment.
I was reading an article in Rolling Stone this weekend (I wouldn’t normally, but I got the rag sent to me somehow after buying Ozzfest tickets online). And while I wasn’t surprised that they were unapolagetically in the tank for the Democrat nominee, I was struck by the author’s accidental honesty in describing the brainless support for Obama being expressed by many of his followers:
“All of this saccharine talk of “change” is so transparently a mechanical come-on that if it were anybody but Barack Obama uttering the word, you’d want to throw up at the very sound of it. And yet, as I watch Obama deliver the same hackneyed act I’ve seen hundreds of times before, I feel against my will that I am actually watching something different at work.”
“I ask a woman named Melanie Threatt why she thinks her life would improve under an Obama presidency. “It just will,” she says. When I press her for specifics, she says, “I just think doors are going to open.” You hear stuff like this a lot on Planet Obama, and it makes you wonder just what it is you’re encountering. Obama’s followers implicitly believe in the things he says, and the fervor of their belief is more religious than intellectual, closer to faith than to reason.”
“But even I find myself being seduced by Obama, despite everything I know about the party he represents, its record and where it gets its money. There’s just something about the guy; he has that effect.”
Yeah, there’s something about the guy, alright. Let’s take a look at the accusation leveled most often: that Obama’s supporters are more like a cult.
cult – noun
- a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
- an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers.
- the object of such devotion.
- a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
- Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
- a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
- the members of such a religion or sect.
- any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
