The Cult of Obamaism
President Obama campaigned on a message that he’d be the agent of change for America. And he’s shown that in full force in his few weeks in office. But when voting for change, how many Americans figured they’d be voting for the implementation of the Obama cult, the new, apparently required religion the President and his staff have for America?
One of the hallmarks to any cult is the requirement that there is no dissension. No contrary views are tolerated and if you speak against the cult leader that is considered a threat, not just to the leader but the cult community as a whole and those dissenters are quickly eliminated.
In this writer’s opinion, the Obama administration has adopted a cult mentality. They rode in on a wave of optimism and took every opportunity to blame every ‘bad’ issue on the prior administration, whether there was any truth to it or not. Well that’s not so surprising I guess, you could call that business as usual in our Nation’s captial. I found it interesting, however, to see the Wall Street Journl come forward questioning who’s really to blame for recent events (read that article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html) but this article will, not doubt, be labeled as wrong by team Obama.
What is most frightening is that the tactics adopted by the Obama team to stem any negative feedback continues to grow. President Obama has taken every option to try to publicly ostracize republican congressmen and senators who do not agree with him (which would, of course, be most of them as Obama’s policies lean heavily towards socialism). Then there was this weekend’s incident where Rahm Emanuel publicly labeled Rush Limbaugh as the official voice of the republican party. Most of us republicans who heard Ralm’s comments sat back and asked “since when did the Republican party anoint Rush as it’s party spokesman?”
Well, folks, here’s the plan. Rahm knows (as so does President Obama) that Rush does NOT represent the party. Mr Limbaugh is an outspoken member of the Republican party, no doubt, but to say he represents us as our party spokesman would be crazy unless your plan is to make being a republican a matter of public embarrassment. Look with Rush’s personality, it’s easy to demonize him. By labeling this outspoken, far right, now demonized person as the party’s ‘voice’ you create public hatred of all republicans.
Moreover, the current socialistic Obama agenda creates labels treating those who have worked hard, seen success and, as a result, have accumulated a little wealth as greedy, perhaps unethical individuals who should now be punished with much higher taxes. The socialistic agenda focuses on providing national healthcare (certainly we all want affordable healthcare - it’s just how we get there that should be debated) over tax breaks and clear incentives that would keep small businesses afloat.
If one wonders why we need all this spending, do it quietly as any public dissension is quickly squashed. The American public should be clearly told just how big Obama’s budget will grow the deficit. The deficit will grow by many many times what it was under Bush and there is no funds to cover it. Obama’s administration must hope that sales of government securities will close the gap over what Obama wants to spend and what is likely to be covered by tax collections. Did you know that nearly half of the proposed budget is not going to be covered by normal tax collections? How long do you think it will take before the view of who are considered wealthy drops to much lower levels. It’s easy to snub our noses over those making $200,000 getting taxed more heavily but what happens when that threshold drops to $100,000 or $75,000 or lower? How long do you think it will take before we are all paying much higher taxes?
Mark my words, when any of this is mentioned in the public media, the Obama administration will act quickly and promptly to not only criticize alternative points of view, they’ll demonize those folks.
So beware. The new era of socialism is at hand and being mandated as our new creed. Wave so long to the era of policial debate. Wave so long to a true two party system of government. If you are not with Obama, you are against America. The cult of Obamaism is winning.