To a very studious lack of notice and curiosity by their wholly bought MSM, it looks like the Obama administration has, one by one, quietly eased out of command, demoted, forced out, or dismissed for cause (one wonders whether such “causes” were manufactured or made much more serious than they actually were) those generals that it doesn’t like, that it apparently deems too independent and difficult to deal with, and perhaps too “warlike,” and these generals–true to tradition–have gone quietly. See, for instance, the still unexplained shuffle and demotion/promotion of key commanders during and after Benghazi. Meanwhile, Obama had appointed generals much more to his liking to top administration posts.

Simultaneously, there has been a purge of any terminology or concepts that have to do with our current “main enemy,” Islam–and especially any that link Islam with terrorism–from the training manuals and courses used to train our military, intelligence, and foreign affairs establishments, all intended to make the conception, identification, discussion, and analysis of Muslim terrorism and terrorists and their ideology of Islam much more difficult, and the formulation of strategies against them even harder. Unless you toe this ideological line, my guess is that you will not advance.

Finally, the last piece of the puzzle is the strange enthusiasm that many Democratic members of Congress–in latter decades no friends of the military– have suddenly conceived for returning to the draft. Inexplicable, it seemed to me, until I placed it in the context of Gramsci’s and the President’s plans for the “fundamental transformation” of the U.S.

What better way to “fundamentally transform” a currently all volunteer and deeply conservative U.S. military than to purge certain recalcitrant generals, conduct an ideological purge as well, and then fill the ranks with conscriptees who are–the majority of them–the highly propagandized products of two or three generations now of Leftist dominated education, and whose basic knowledge set, attitudes, and orientations are far different from that of today’s volunteers. That would, indeed, be a “fundamental transformation.”

Well written…

Of note: ALL of the worst tyrannies zoned in on the youth — the tyrants were to transform the world to the advantage of the next generation:

Nazis (Hitler)
Soviets (Stalin)
ChiComs (Mao)
Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot)

The college crowd needs to be informed that ANY political movement that travels down that road devolves into oppression.

The other trait: tyrannies are NOT nations of the lawless; far from it. They suffer from laws in every direction. Tyranny is the State unchained.

The current US Federal Government has devolved into a soft police state. So much so, that criminal gangs have been caught warping the statutes to establish their own police forces — badges and all.

Drudge reported one locality that established its own police force — which then was perverted into a tax authority, de facto. It was clipping through traffic — in the classic speed trap way — and taking a 60% cut — farming out the dirty work to a private firm. (!)

Regulations, statutes, laws, case law; they’ve reached cancerous over reach. Even then they can’t trigger enough employment for the legal drones hatched all over the land.

Stepping back — and up — there is a general failure to recognize that much of today’s government is PURE parasitism. As in nature, the infestation does not help the host.

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While talking up the next generation, Black empowerment, etc. the Wan is causing massive job losses for his devotees.

Obamacare — as an above the line wage tax — has caused the visible hiring wage to drop 30% ( inflation adjusted ) hereabouts.

With time, it will entirely blow up the Federal budget. At that inevitable time, Barry will have utterly destroyed his backers. Without currency exports, hundreds of thousands of high dollar parasites will be cut off: Attorneys, professors, bankers and physicians will be at the head of the list.

I call your attention to the British professors who lost their positions when Whitehall trimmed student finances.

Dennis Prager devotes considerable energy to the problem of the left’s incessant and often vicious demonization of the right and right-leaning people. Here are a few recent articles:

http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=44f26fde-6a87-4802-a6df-2a4614481937&url=roberts_blankenhorn_and_the_power_of_liberal_intimidation

http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=a37803be-c876-4337-9d86-d259c7ff2d3a&url=for_the_left,_opponents_cannot_have_decent_motives_the_ground_zero_example

http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=40b03316-f48a-4deb-9d80-315055397c33&url=why_i_now_vote_party%2C_not_individual

http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=09e30fe0-ab17-4d11-bb26-2a6aad76fca6&url=if_you_are_not_a_leftist%2C_why_are_you_voting_democrat

You remind me that some of the young idealists of the 60’s thought they were oppressed by a monolithic, hypocritical, stifling, greedy culture that enforced a cruel conformity.

Somehow, they have created and become the masters of a monolithic, hypocritical, stifling, greedy culture and harshly enforce a cruel conformity. (And they’ve managed to profit handsomely as the “more equal” Champions of Compassion.)

One of our greatest challenges, and greatest opportunities, is to find better ways to recruit one of the natural constituents of Liberty — the young and idealistic.

A vote doesn’t have to be strictly for someone. It can be against something, too.

Remember, the chief election strategy for Obama in 2008, which was the culmination of the propaganda campaign the Democrats had carefully nurtured throughout the Bush administration and ramped up after their 2004 loss to Bush, was to convince voters to vote *against* the vilified Bush and GOP, not (only) *for* Obama.

Rehabilitate Bush’s legacy in an Obama v Bush frame and you will remove the lynchpin of the Democrats’ political advantage, castigate the Dems, and flip their positions.

The people need to be convinced to be for the GOP as well as against the Dems. The Tea Party is the best hope. They should drop their elected office focus and focus on changing the social-political landscape by ranging aggressively beyond their comfort zone in-groups with an activist populist movement. That’s what will give them power to change the GOP and then government. Trying to elect Tea Partiers at step one is a lazy ineffective shortcut. The Tea Party needs to be activists first and politicians as a second-order effect.

The Constitution is a social contract, not a religious document.

To educate young Americans, I recommend they learn the Western canon of modern social theorists – Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Durkheim, etc. – as well as the Founding Fathers, in order to understand the formative influences on the founders and the social-political-philosophical theorists who have influenced our course since the founding.

For reliable open-source subject materials, I suggest the course materials that top universities have placed on-line, including even lecture videos.

You learn, for example, that Obama is a textbook example of charismatic authority in Max Weber’s typology. And that Marx 1.0 social theory on alienation is spot on, a must read for activists of all stripes, while Marx 2.0 caused generations of pain with his attempt to build a revolutionary application for his theory based on economic reductionism.

The collectivists are very skilled in their use of language to seize the high ground. Opponents of Smart Growth would favor what? Yep, we’re Stupid..

A Link to an image of that piece is here (use your zoom function to enlarge the text, as needed):

http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmSpectator-1987dec-00014

If you haven’t read this classic example of writing by a great writer (and I believe it’s on topic here), you should do so. [IMHO]