Red Turns Green

Obama has some strange bedfellows. He is not some raving Marxist though his policies coincide in many ways with the old red agenda. It is over-simplistic to say he intends a merely statist program. Obama is more like Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler than he is like Trotsky or Lenin. Barry doesn't want to simply seize all the companies, he wants to co opt the executives and management of many of them, and he is succeeding. What should be natural opponents of Obamaism are often embracing a "partnership" between their corporations and government, welcoming environmental regulations and other measures that in the past would have been termed onerous interference in private enterprise. Energy companies and their advertising agencies and IBM and its public relations crew are falling all over themselves in their ads to show how environmentally-friendly and socially concerned they are. Many so-called public-private efforts are being undertaken often for a anti-global warming objective. Vaclav Klaus, the Czech leader and a survivor of Communist oppression, was amongst the first to issue the signal warning that the Greens were the new Reds, seeking to increase their own power to restrict our rights and freedom under the guise of environmental protection. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex manipulating US power to its own benefit in much the same way as German companies like Krupp and IG Farben advanced Hitlerism to reap its financial rewards. We now have some of America's larger companies making common cause with Obama to enrich themselves at the expense of our precious liberty.