Monday, March 8, 2010
Love And Hate Of America
Socialism piece by
Leon A. Weinstein
It is my personal opinion that President Obama and his inner circle hate America. I am not talking about landscapes and folk songs. Those they might love. But they dislike what America represents and has been for the last two centuries. I love in America exactly what Obama hates. In other words Obama hates MY America. I also do not like some things here, but I would emigrate here even if the weather everywhere in this country was like in Chicago. I emigrated to and loved this country because this country cherishes each individual more than it cherishes the state. It is quite difficult to understand for Europeans, Asians or Africans who grew to believe that a beehive is more important than a single bee. In America the bee is more important. I love this country because it didn’t demand anything from me. Because I didn’t have to sing hymns to any leader or movement or fate. Because words “do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” were wonderful colorful and inspiring… words. I have heard same words from the Soviet Leaders and every socialist organizer that ever was.
In essence America was built by individuals and for individuals. It wasn’t built because of the founders’ love of the country, but because of their love of freedom. In this country we gave when we wanted to, not when the state decided that we shall give. Because when we wanted to give we gave more. This was a country of free, strong, arrogant and selfish individualists. The best by any account place in the world. Was.
A hundred years ago there was a similar story. Vladimir Lenin and his inner circle didn’t like Russia. In effect they hated everything that Russia represented. Not folk songs or landscape, this they liked. They seized an opportunity given by an unpopular war and by collapsing economy and began fundamentally changing what they didn’t like – changing everything they could lay their hands on.
They of course said that they love the country. They expressed tons of love for the people of the country, said that everything they did was for the good of the country. And maybe even it was for the good of the country, but definitely not for the good of people who lived in the country. If old people are not given proper medical care, the country has more resources to build military might for example. Russia added territories from east to west, from north to south and became a huge empire, one of the biggest in the history of humankind. If Josef Stalin would have his way, the Soviet Union would be the only country in the united under the red banner world. Intellectuals in Europe at that time used to say “Better Red then dead” throwing hands in the air giving up their freedom even before they were asked to.
The new tsars of Russia were saying “You can’t make omelets without breaking eggs”. And they broke eggs by millions; all that was done for the good of the country. Millions of lives lost, millions of dreams gone, Gulags and killing fields everywhere. This is the cost of the change, they were saying. If those bad people who resist the change could die or be isolated, the country would live better.
I personally do not care if the country would live better or not – they killed my grandfather for their greater good! I can’t forgive or see beyond that. Sorry, I am probably not a good Christian. I am actually Jewish, like Jesus.
God forbid something like that will start happening in the United States of America. God forbid. I have already heard that Obama is not Stalin, he doesn’t want any hard tyranny… he wants a soft one. Beware my brothers citizens, the seeds are sown into this blessed land, once being the truly best place for humans in the world. It is done for the good of the sick, and for the good of the oppressed, and for the good of the tribe, and for the world peace… To cure the sick, to feed the hungry… Now you are not doing it because you want to, but because you are told to and soon you will be obligated to. For the good of the country let’s take a trillion from the old who are not producing anymore, who will soon die and it is really not important, they die tomorrow or a year from now. The younger ones need the money, the ones that will do good to the country. Which part you didn’t understand? May it is the part that we are talking about your mom and dad?
Obama hates MY America. He wants to destroy it. He calls it “change”. He tries to introduce his change with all his might. Equality is weakness. There is no equality, and can’t be. When people will start realizing that they had been conned, than time for guns might come. God forbid! The corporations will be blamed again. They will be seized and given to the workers. We will hear from our leaders that it only just since the workers are the ones who gave their sweat and blood to those companies… The wealth shall belong to all – and the state shall take it and keep on our behalf we will be told. And all profits shall be divided among all of us, and the government will divide them most efficiently and honestly. From everyone according to their might, to everyone according to their needs.
If you believe this is possible, why wouldn’t you believe in Clinton not inhaling marijuana or Obama not knowing what his pastor was preaching in his church. Bad times, bad. But we can still fight and get out of this mess. We need people in Congress and the White House who love this country – this country, not a dream utopia that never was and probably never will be. The person whom we will vote next can hate the sunsets and birds singing, but he has to love what we are standing for. Otherwise we will become one more banana republic with nuclear warheads.
Leon Weinstein
http://LeonWeinstein.com/
Copyright ©2010 Leon A. Weinstein
Leon was born in the Soviet Union in 1949, during the Stalin era. Emigrated to the USA in 1984 and became an American citizen in 1995. The Author of “Looking for Hugh: The Capitalist Guidebook”
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