Maggie's Farm

I have to admit, during my college days, I dabbled a bit (limited, to be sure) in the Marxist groups which were so "socially popular" at the time. I never jumped ship, I was merely looking for a social connection which the groups on the right were severely lacking (and still are!!).

I have no issue with Obama's college ideologies. I have many friends who were Marxist in college. It was hip, it was trendy, it was cool.

In fact, so was PJ O'Rourke...and he's as unabashedly right wing as they come now (as are many others, including some interesting Yippies back in the day).

Point is - we only antagonize supporters of Obama who hope to switch sides by talking about this stuff. They see this kind of talk and, rather than admitting they were wrong to support Obama, they say "I'd love to disown him, but for THIS???"

The heroin connection story and Marxist rantings? I mean, really? Is it worth it?

Far more useful to keep attacking his supposedly "practical solutions to difficult problems", which are not practical and neither are the problems difficult.

As I said to my father yesterday "It's less an issue that he's pushing Socialism. If he is in fact doing that, I'd be more comfortable because I'd know what he's doing. What he's REALLY doing is pushing a political agenda of dependence on political solutions for the taxpayer - a machine. He's essentially Boss Tweed with a smile and a handshake. Tweed was well liked, until he wasn't anymore."

Machine politics are what make the income redistribution so "practical" - the make a dependent class totally devoid of ambition and completely in rapture of the political class that will provide for them. It's a vote winning procedure.