Ideological Stupidity

This is really only the beginning of how stupid our political discourse has become in this country. We have one of the most liberal politicians ever, Joe Lieberman, telling Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano that the presumed Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, might be a Marxist. Where does the former Democratic candidate and former Democratic VP nominee and new right wing hero warrior get his talking points? Well that would be from none of other than neocon Bill Kristol.

Kristol, a liberal by ideological definition, suggests in his latest op-ed that Obama's statement that people have become bitter with government and cling to religion and guns is similar to Marx's writing that religion is the sigh of the oppressed. Let's review, shall we, what exactly our Grand and Exalted Leader George Bush has done to contraire any thought that Marxism is not an attribute of Conservative Republicanism.

Bush, answering the call by frightened and clinging citizens after the most devastating attack on American soil, created the largest restructuring of the federal government since FDR. In doing so, the very conservative and very small government Republican increased the size and power of the federal government more so than any president of the last 70 years by creating the Department of Homeland Security. No mention from Bill Kristol about Marxism then. When the masses were clinging for government, religion and guns in 2001-2002 Republicans had no problems using Marxism to their advantage.

More recently, after seeing the fifth largest banking lender in the country default on its payments, the very small government and laissez faire president used an old time FDR law to bail out that bank with tax payer money. Not a single mention by Kristol or any so-called Republican about how Marxist it is for the president to use tax payer money to subsidize people who can't pay their bills. It's only when a Democrat talks about struggling people or about people fed up with how things are in Washington do we see the neoconservative-controlled Republican Party mention Marx. All the while intentionally forgetting that George Bush has done more for Marxism than any president since 1932.

Republican Marxist behavior is nothing new and not uncommon at all. There is no reason to believe a single word that is spouted from Kristol or any other neoconservative talking head when it comes to matters of Marxist policies versus political behavior. If they were really concerned with Marxism they would not have voted for George Bush twice.