THE MORON VOTE IN AMERICA; The Manchurian Electorate

From the Freedom Fighter's Journal comes this column by J. D. Longstreet about what he refers to as "America's Brain Washed Voters". He begins with this quote from the UK Telegraph:

"So Europe got the American president it wanted – the one who would present no threat to its own delusions. The United States is now officially one of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic Balkanisation, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite. And it is locked into the same death spiral of high public spending and self-defeating wealth redistribution as we are. Welcome to the future, and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the West." ... Janet Daley, The Telegraph

"I find it ironic that a news organization, Pravda, which was formally the mouthpiece for the Soviet Union's Communist Party government is able to see Obama for what he is when Americans were -- and are -- too dumb and/or too dense to see the Marxist agenda of Mr. Obama. (Frankly, I don't think Americans even understand, anymore, what Communism, Socialism, and Marxism really is/are. I mean, think about it. Americans don't even know we used to have a constitutional representative republic. Most think we had a democracy. Now that we are a socialist state -- they don't know -- and can't tell (can't discern) -- the difference. Such is the ignorance of the average American about his government today.)"

Who was it that said we get the kind of government we deserve? I regret to say there are some cliches that we must now retire, resolving never to use them again. Here are three:

"America is the greatest country in the world"
"America is a center-right country"
"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American voter"

I challenged a leftist, gloating nephew to list every reason why Obama should be president and I would respond by listing every reason the man should not have been allowed near the capital. His response? "There are 50 million reasons why Obama should be president".
Longstreet concludes this chilling column with these words:

The only question remaining, then, is how will those of us who desire freedom extract ourselves from the corpse that America is quickly becoming?

In case you wonder what the "Manchurian Electorate" derives from, I direct you to this synopsis in Wikipedia of the 1962 film, "The Manchurian Candidate":

It is revealed that the Communists have been using Shaw as a sleeper agent, a guiltless assassin subconsciously activated by seeing the “Queen of Diamonds” playing card while playing solitaire. Provoked by the appearance of the card, he obeys orders which he then forgets. Shaw’s KGB handler is his domineering mother Eleanor, a ruthless power broker working with the Communists to execute a "palace coup d’état" to quietly overthrow the U.S. government, with her husband, McCarthy-esque Senator Johnny Iselin, as a puppet dictator.

Forget about the 2004 remake which replaces the Communists with the usual inversion of good and evil where private interprise and corporations become the evil ones. If you think about it, it has been this latter sort of propaganda that has set the stage for the election of  Obama and the current species of Democrats.