Via David P. in NC...
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President
of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States.” –Article II, Section 1,
Constitution of the United States (1787)
No president since
Franklin
Roosevelt has mastered the art of the “Big Lie” as effectively as
Barack Hussein Obama.
In my last
Memo to
Demos, I outlined Obama’s litany of lies to win passage of ObamaCare, or as
an increasing number of Democrats
now
prefer to call it, the “Affordable Care Act.” Having supported this
catastrophic behemoth, they now hope that their refusal to utter the word
“ObamaCare” will provide them a measure of political protection. The truth,
however, is that they are now irrevocably linked to Obama’s
repeated bald-faced lies.
I concur with the assessment of political analyst
Jonah Goldberg that Obama’s lies
are “the biggest lies about domestic policy ever uttered by a U.S.
president.”
As politically vulnerable Demos in the Senate are scurrying away from the
ObamaCare train wreck, their intrepid leader, Sen. Harry Reid, yet again
repeated Obama’s Big Lie: “What he said was true. If you want to keep the
insurance you have you can keep it. The problem is, we did not put the bill into
effect that way.”
In other words, you can keep your insurance and doctor, except “we did not
put the bill into effect that way.” This must be why he exempted some of his
staff from ObamaCare.
I was as stupefied by Reid's reiteration of this now-infamous lie as was
the reporter who asked him about it. Is Reid suffering from acute dementia? Has
he been imprisoned in some sensory deprivation tank for the last two months? Or
is he, like Obama, thoroughly accomplished in the art of the Big Lie? Recall
that this audacious technique is a staple of the biggest deceptions propagated
by
Leftist cadres since the rise of Marxism and its murderous
manifestations in successive regimes, most notably the National Socialist German
Workers' Party from the 1930s through the end of World War II.
Some reading this will question: Really Alexander? Obama and Hitler?
Is this another histrionic example of Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies: "As an
online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis
or Hitler approaches 1"?
If you're among those who'd rather dismiss such associations because they
seem too strident -- or because you want to help maintain Obama's deception --
then your answer is yes. But the fact is, Obama's lies fit neatly into the Big
Lie framework defined by another
pathological narcissist, Adolf Hitler.
Reid's repetition of Obama's lie invokes the need to review the origin of
Big Lie theory, as well as the proliferation of Big Lie propaganda today.
Adolf Hitler defined the Big Lie in his 1925 autobiography, Mein Kampf,
writing that it must be so "colossal" that the public would be confident that no
national leaders "could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously."
"In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the
broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata
of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the
primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big
lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little
matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never
come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe
that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even
though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their
minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may
be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces
behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all
expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of
lying."
Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, affirmed that "the principle
that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. ... It is the absolute
right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion."
If you still have trouble making the Big Lie connection, perhaps you can
make the Socialist connection.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler also wrote of his Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party, or NAZI), "The party
... must not become a servant of the masses, but their master." With respect to
the socialist state and individual Liberty, he wrote, "The unity of a nation's
spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an
individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must
here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the
individual."
Hitler's regime was founded on his premise, "We are Socialists, we are
enemies of the capitalistic economic system ... and we are all determined to
destroy this system under all conditions."
"To be a socialist," Goebbels affirmed, "is to submit the I to the thou;
socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."
For those who still find the Big Lie comparison too strident, I refer you
to Jacob Hornberger's paraphrase of the esteemed classical liberal economist
Friedrich von Hayek: "There is no difference in principle, between the economic
philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American
welfare state and regulated economy."
British historian Dr. John Joseph Ray followed, "The Big Lie of the late
20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism
of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism."
As for Obama's Biggest Lies, it's difficult to pick just one, given that
his entire presidency is a lie. Indeed,
his whole life is a lie. Even his
official White House bio begins, "His story is
the American story -- values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a
strong family..."
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Surely one of Obama's Biggest Lies was his 2008 election night assertion,
"The dream of our founders is alive!" Does any right-thinking person now
seriously believe that his agenda to supplant
Rule of Law with
rule of men is consistent with our nation's founding
principles of Liberty, "
endowed by our creator?" Of course not.
His sycophantic constituents, however, are another matter. They were too
dullard then, and most are still too ignorant to realize they've been lied to.
The Big Lie remains so big that, cascades of facts not withstanding, they
adamantly cling to hope that there is another explanation.
More accurate would be Obama's victory night declaration, "At this defining
moment, change has come to America," which reaffirmed
this infamous claim from a week earlier: "We are five days
away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Indeed, that
transformation is well underway -- though by no means does it still have enough
momentum that it is unstoppable.
But in my assessment, Barack Obama's Biggest Big Lie was uttered twice,
when he took his
constitutionally prescribed oath of office. If memory serves,
it went something like this: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute
the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my
Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States."
For now, at least, Obama has been snared by his own Big ObamaCare Lies.
Let's hope he stays caught.
Pro Deo et Constitutione -- Libertas aut Mors
Semper Fortis
Vigilate Paratus et Fidelis
Read the rest at The Patriot Post.
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Poor obama. Everyone is turning against him. The sad thing is that "the next one" will probably be as bad as he is. Why? Because we allow it. Since we allow it, we deserve what we get.
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