The world needs post-Cold War thinking. But Obama is stuck in a world of parochial clichés. Obama is just one of millions fooled by the anti-American propaganda planted decades ago by the KGB. “Change” is not change at all, but rather a regression to a mythological past, which impedes the real change the world so desperately needs. Generated in the depths of KGB think tanks, the Cold War-era propaganda template is comprised of the following linked axioms:
1. Socialism is “progress.”2. Aversion to “progress” is a sign of outmoded backward thinking.
3. All forward-thinking people are leftists.
4. Leftists always speak for all people.
5. People always unanimously support leftist leaders.
6. Leftists are always under assault from the well-organized capitalist enemy.
7. All workers and peasants hate capitalist exploiters.
8. Armed resistance to a leftist government can only conceivably be staged by CIA agents in the service of American imperialism.
9. Capitalists engage in relentless anti-socialist propaganda, subversion, and sabotage; they will commit any crime in order to kill hope and prevent the masses from liberation.
10. The dying non-socialist sector of the world is run by a criminal conspiracy of capitalist oligarchs operating from the United States (and sometimes from Israel when appropriate).
One’s perception of America as a hero or a villain in this case depends on whether one thinks that socialism is indeed “progress of mankind.” For believers in the leftist version of “progress,” America will inevitably come off as evil, arrogant, or at least misguided. The workings of the leftist template are such that when a single axiom is accepted all other axioms follow, being links of one chain. The Soviet non-presence is also an axiom, an invisible and unspoken part of the template that allows deception to advance leftist causes — the end justifies the means. (...) (from Part I)
(...) Using this template is like riding a bicycle — once you learn, you never forget. It is simple and easy to work with. (...) it’s impossible to disprove the leftist “history of American imperialism” without knowing that just about every Cold War conflict began as a premeditated KGB operation. Ridiculing “red scare” while withholding information about the Soviet involvement has proven to make the opponents tongue-tied and feeling like fools fighting with a shadow. That is why the substitution of facts with a revised history that minimizes or airbrushes the Soviet role in the Cold War is of such a crucial importance, helping the left to prevail in the larger propagandistic argument and win the hearts and minds of the general public. (...)
If anti-American lies were anthrax, one might say the USSR had left behind enough stockpiles to exterminate all life on earth many times over. Strategically positioned in all corners of the world and left unattended, some of the accumulated deceptions deteriorated naturally over the years, some were moved in bulk for recycling to countries like Iran and Venezuela, and the rest were looted by ragtag bands of anti-American enthusiasts with varying degrees of professionalism. (...) (from Part II)
The former chief of Romania's espionage service sees an American president fully invested in the lies he helped disseminate along with the KGB. (...) The important fact about modern-day anti-Americanism is that it spreads almost exclusively among impressionable cultural elites who are most exposed to ideological clichés delivered through media and educational channels (...) people must be reminded of it every day to keep it alive. That is the burden that radical intellectuals have taken upon themselves, dispensing daily quotas of leftist clichés to the “unwashed masses” down below. (...)Our sensory organs may perceive the same reality, but our knowledge of the world depends on how our minds interpret our perceptions and connect the dots. A successful propaganda campaign modifies that process by inserting, in a manner of speaking, a prefabricated optical lens that redirects incoming information and rearranges the existing dots. (...) lies suddenly become perceived as the truth, right as wrong, good as evil, enemies as friends, and so on.
(...) even today Barack Obama believes in these insinuations strongly enough to apologize before the world for the perceived history of “American arrogance.” (...) And since such views are part of the ideological template that vilifies America and lionizes its enemies, Obama’s instinctive reaction was to back Zelaya and throw a lifeline to Ahmadinejad. (...) President Obama may be acting in good faith, but his processing of reality is just as impaired by the same “metaphorical deformation.” As a result, the leader of the free world strays across the frontlines and joins the Marxist leaders (...)
The Soviet Union may have self-destructed in 1991, but the seeds of intellectual deception it had planted gave such a bountiful crop that seventeen years later America has elected a leader who is guided by received notions designed to subdue and destroy this country. Apparently, the rumors about America’s victory in the Cold War appear to have been greatly exaggerated. (...) (from Part III)
(...) no distinction is made between a democratic state and a tyranny. Obama's policy on Iran and Honduras is to respect the sovereignty of the dictator, not the people. (...) In theory, Obama’s position amounts to moral equivalency between a democracy and an autocratic rogue state. In practice, it gives the roguish Iranian regime added legitimacy and protection, while leaving the democratic Honduras exposed to threats from Ortega and Chavez (...)
The idea of unconditional sovereignty is, in fact, a clever ploy used time and again during the Cold War to advance leftist dictatorships and undermine free democracies. The trick is simple — it takes advantage of the decency of those who honestly abide by international law, preventing them from interfering in the affairs of tyrants who abide by nothing except the expansion of their ill-gained power. (...)It’s foolish to expect a fair game from forces whose moral code is limited to “the end justifies the means.” That is why the implication that “all sovereignties are equal” is a loss for law-abiding democracies and a win for leftist expansionists, whose only measure of legitimacy is the advancement of their perverted idea of the “common good.” (...) In the end, national sovereignty cannot be unconditional. Its condition is simple: the presence of an elected government that acts in the interests of its people, maintains the rule of law, and respects individual sovereignty of every one of its citizens. (...) (from Part IV)
Obama and his ilk continually fall for the myth that those living under dictatorships are united against American "aggression." (...) Statist regimes need unanimity to justify their existence. If a government’s survival depends on unanimity, it will inevitably end up repressing free speech. That alone makes statism an unacceptable form of government. Any government’s claim to speak for all people automatically makes it a suspect, just as unanimous voting is a symptom of tyranny. (...)
(...) Iranian dissidents expected to receive support, or at least encouragement from the American president. But the “warmonger” Bush is no longer in office, and the “peace-loving” Obama isn’t interested in rocking the boat, flexing American muscles, or doing anything else that might upset the established leftist narrative and pigeonhole him together with Bush, Reagan, and other “imperialist villains” of yore.Stuck in the parochial past and learning about the outside life from myths, Obama prefers his Iranians sanitized and united behind their own America-hating government, as the old leftist legend says they should.
(...) the “unanimity” trick is still being played against the Hondurans — not from within, but from outside its borders — as leftist leaders and sympathetic media are trying to present the handful of local Marxists as ones who speak for all people. A pretense that, to them at least, provides a moral justification for their demands to restore Zelaya. (from Part V)
- Part I: "Obama Regresses to Cold War Mythology … and Switches Sides" (tags: Mel Zelaya, Iran, KGB, Cold War, Bush Doctrine, Hillary Clinton)
- Part II: "Obama’s Quest into the Magic World of Anti-American Mythology" (tags: KGB, Afganistan, Iran, The Unholy Alliance (Islam), Yemen, Cuba, Chile, Grenada, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Vietnam, Islamic terrorism, South Africa, Mandela, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat)
- Part III: "A U.S. President, Raised on KGB Propaganda" (tags: cultural Marxism, anti war movement, Andropov, Vietnam, Soviet foreign policy, demoralization, disinformation, psyops, information warfare, metaphorical deformation)
- Part IV: "Whose Sovereignty Is Obama Respecting?" (tags: Honduras, talking points, Soviet foreign policy, the Central Committee, Iran, all-sovereignties-are-equal, North Korea, Venezuela, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Mel Zelaya, relativism in international law)
- Part V: "We Are the Children: Sing in Unison to Save a Dictator" (tags: democracy, Russia, Soviet Union, Sting, bait-and-switch trick, Iran, stooges, statism, individualism, information warfare, metaphorical deformation)
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