the Democrats need a really, really good messenger to sway the rubes and make them see the light. Thus the excitement over Barack Obama.
Agree. Barak Obama is their great hope. He is Black, and he is White, and he is Christian, and also had Muslim influence in his childhood. He is the best that "Multiculti" can offer -- live, in flesh and blood. The man is very bright and charming, he's a great public speaker and communicator.
In my youth I read Hegel, Lenin and "enough" of Marx. I think I have a fairly good understanding of the Collectivist mindset. (I think Dostoyevsky is a fine source of such an insight, and far more readable). It is incorrect - and unfair, really, in many cases - to think that they want power for the sake of power. They want power because they believe that they know how to use it to the benefit of the majority of human beings. They feel that they know the path to salvation, and they need power in order to be able to pursue that path.
Regrettably -- since this belief operates on a level of faith and archetypes and other such dimensions -- they are not able to acknowledge that the salvations which they propose will be far worse than the problems which they hope to cure. They think that their brand of "positive, warm, humane" collectivism will be more successful than its previous incarnations. But in the end, nice oppression is still slavery. |
