Chilling: Obama’s OFA Indoctrination Squads
It has been just over two months now since Barack Obama ascended to the presidency of the United States of America. Since then, we’ve heard and seen the president at news conferences, on Jay Leno, 60 Minutes and other shows. His image seems to be cropping up almost everywhere; one neighbor still has a huge poster of Obama plastered to their living room window with the word “hope” underneath it.
Clearly, these are interesting times. Interesting as in weird.
Obamaism v. Nazism
People get angry when any sort of parallel with Hitler’s Germany is offered when mentioning Barack Obama and his magnetic appeal to the masses, but I cannot help but see them. Well before Germany’s turn to national fascism (Nazism) the country was a fractured, but rising power which came together in 1871 to form what historians call the German Empire.
Stretching from France to Russia, the new German state was an industrial powerhouse with Chancellor Otto von Bismarck holding sway until 1890, a man widely credited with rolling out national health care and old-age insurance plans during the 1880s. The country was also fairly tolerant to foreigners, including Jews, whose numbers topped 500,000 as the Nazis rose to power.
When Adolf Hitler took office he unified a defeated, demoralized country which was still reeling from its humiliating loss in The Great War (World War I) fifteen years earlier. Hitler was instrumental in imposing “Gleichschaltung” which was a way of getting rid of individualism in favor of have people adhere to a unified way of thinking, in order to exert totalitarian control over the masses.
A Successful Grassroots Campaign
People rightfully credit Barack Obama’s grassroots organizing campaign for his victory last fall. Certainly, the collapse of the economy ensured his triumph, one that was threatened when Sarah Palin emerged as John McCain’s veep choice just weeks earlier. Obama immediately blamed Bush for the country’s economic woes, easily associating McCain with the sitting president’s policies.
The organization that Obama established was called Obama For America (OFA), with millions of Americans giving their financial support (and email addresses) in a bid to form a strong base. In January, Obama took the unusual step to encourage the organization to continue, renaming it Organizing for America, keeping the trademark campaign logo and tasking its members to help transform American society.
Run By The Democrat National Committee
Specifically, the OFA is a political group run by the Democrat National Committee tasked with supporting and advancing the Obama legislative agenda. Now, I’ve learned that the OFA has mobilized its members to go door to door in a bid to sell the president’s health care, energy and education agendas to the American people. That first campaign launched this past weekend; we weren’t home so I don’t know if we were paid a personal visit or not.
I don’t have a problem with people campaigning, obtaining signatures for a petition, asking for financial support, etc. If the OFA wants to do that, it is within their rights unless local laws forbid door to door solicitations.
What I don’t like is that this campaign is under the OFA umbrella, a DNC group with a clear political agenda, one which I do not support. While campaigning, Obama rightfully took George W. Bush to task for spending hundreds of billions of dollars and running up our national debt but is hypocritically spending trillions more himself in a bid to implement his plan for America. Our country is being hit with a social agenda contrary to what many Americans believe in while burdening us with a level of debt that won’t easily go away.
What are those parallels to Nazism that I see with Obama devotees? It is their blind support for a charismatic leader who has stumbled early and often as he attempts to lead this nation. If people can support initiatives that promote abortion, increase spending, attack free enterprise and push an undefined social agenda without question, then those seeds will take root, changes which will mold America much in the way that Germany was reshaped prior to the second world war.

By LarryJackson, March 24, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
During the campaign, I tried to draw attention to some of these same tendencies Obama had shown and was told I was coming to conclusions that were not valid. It is beginning to appear they were more than valid and he is attempting to bring some of the to fruition. The fears I had of Barack Obama are being realized and it truly is a scary thing.
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By Matthew C. Keegan, March 24, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
Larry, much of what President Obama has hinted at is unfolding before our eyes. We knew that he had a strident left wing agenda, but we weren’t sure how exactly it would unfold. We’re seeing the first fruits of it and, like you, I don’t like what we’re seeing.
By Flash, March 25, 2009 @ 10:06 am
It is beginning to appear they were more than valid and he is attempting to bring some of the to fruition. The fears I had of Barack Obama are being realized and it truly is a scary thing.
By Robert Adcox, April 8, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
You referred to “gleichschaltung” -an attack on individuality. I’d like to add a persective from social psychology which will serve as a vehicle by which for such to occur. In the 1960s a woamn named Kitty Genovese was murdered stabbed repeatedlyby an assailant who, to this day, has failed to express any remorse for his actions. What allowed this tragedy to occur waw the lack of response to the killing taking place. Her neighbors -some 37, according to police record- reported witnessing the attacks (they were multiple assaults). Yet no one lifted a finger to help Miss Genovese. Her neighbors were doing what anyone lacking training in such a situation would do: they were spending valuable time trying to figure out what to do, how to get involved, how to control their fears, etc. This came to be known as the “bystander effect”.
Okay, here we are, facing what appears to be a rigid and authoritarian Executive branch of the federal (feral?) government. And once again, people are standing around, wringing their hands and wondering what to do, how to get involved, how to control their fears, etc.
The bystander effect/diffusion of responsibility among the masses is exactly the type of vehicle a tyrant exploits when seizing power.
Fortunately, all it takes to foil such arrogance is simply to say, “screw it”, and resist with appropriate counteractions. For example, organizing a taxpayers’ revolt these days would be far more appropriate than advocating violence.
Tyrants never have more power than that given them by the masses.
By Matthew C. Keegan, April 9, 2009 @ 4:31 am
Robert, I remember the Kitty Genovese case well. It was something that we studied in sociology class, the worst example of humans standing by idly without taking action.
You are right: wringing our hands just doesn’t do enough. Taking action, in the form of a taxpayer revolt, is something definitely worth doing. I think people are willing to act, they’re just trying to find the most effective means in sending a strong message to our leaders to cease and desist.