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.

Civil Disobedience, One American At A Time

The resistance against Barack Obama's radical agenda has begun. Seeds of discontent have been planted by Americans of a variety of political stripes, backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups, etc.

Its the 1960s all over again. Well, not exactly. There won’t be flower children frolicking through the meadows and cannabis won’t help people to turn on and tune out – at least for the fair minded among us.

Instead, I believe we have the makings of an American revolution of sorts on our hands, one that will seek to repudiate the policies of the Obama administration and our free wheeling, deal-a-day Congress. Policies that are bringing unbridled government spending our way, stem cell research involving aborted babies, reset button diplomacy, you name it.

And it won’t be something embraced entirely by conservatives – the seeds of disobedience will be sown by Americans of varying political stripes, except those from the far left fringe.

Two articles I read within the past few weeks have convinced me that change is on its way, but not the change that candidate Barack Obama espoused. Instead, this sort of occurrence is one that ordinary Americans will be bringing about one citizen at a time, perhaps over a lengthy period of time at that.

But change is coming.

Robert L. Dilenschneider shared some poignant thoughts about power in his article titled, “How to Be More Powerful Without Putting People Off,” which appeared in a February 2008 issue of Bottom Line / Personal. What stood out for me was this statement: “True power is not the same as running roughshod over other people or getting ahead at any cost. This form of power is temporary. People see through it and look for ways to undermine it.”

Ah, yes! Dictatorial power is always destined to fail, because as soon as it rears its head up the resistance begins. In our nation’s early days, before independence was declared, weary taxpayers rebelled against the British system by staging a tea party in Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation.

It was a long struggle for colonialists who had nothing to lose, but everything to gain including their freedom. Britain wanted to exert its authority over a faraway land while Obama today wants to roll out his radical agenda on a sleeping American populace.

Unfortunately for the president, people are beginning to wake up from their slumber.

Michelle Malkin published the other piece which got my attention: “Going Galt”: America’s Wealth Producers vs. Wealth Redistributors. Malkin cited the character John Galt in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” novel where Galt led the entrepreneurial class to to cease productive activities in order to starve the government of revenue. That sort of thing is happening right now as small business owners — who are the target of Obama’s pending tax increase on the “wealthy” — have decided enough is enough.

The Obama tax increase will hit businesses who pull in at least $250,000 annually, even if the owners take out just a fraction of the funds for themselves. Plundering the “haves” to aid the “have nots” sounds like a Robin Hood scheme, but that is what happens in a fairy tale — America is not some sort of social experiment playground.

I cannot say for sure how everything will come down, but I know it’ll be an individual movement first followed by a grassroots campaign that will openly challenge Obama. Small business owners, concerned citizens, young families, middle aged managers, retirees and the aged will be among those pushing back, people who understand that the radical transformation unfolding for America is something that they do not want nor can the nation afford if it is to survive as the land of the free.

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