Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (46437)	10/14/2010 10:24:18 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Perspectives Of A Russian Immigrant By SVETLANA KUNIN Posted 06:24 PM ET I have a hard time correlating the word "elite" to the supporters of the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress who vote for his agenda. Old egalitarian economic theories that advocate increased state control continue to feed power-hungry opportunists and brainwashed intelligentsia, many of whom do not even know the source of their "new" ideas. They condescend toward "unwashed" critical and independent thinkers, entrepreneurs, concerned parents and common-sense Americans. These supposedly educated people view their social and historical myopia as a sign of sophistication and intelligence. Those who value uniquely American individual liberties are regarded as stupid and backward. But for many of us who escaped from centrally planned societies, these elites are an ignorant bunch, brainwashed by the brainwashed, with an astoundingly narrow vision. Preoccupied with their status and image, these blinded sophisticates are ungrateful for the blessings they enjoy due to the simple fact that they were lucky enough to be born in the USA. It is hard to believe Americans would blindly follow their political leaders, teachers and agitators into transforming this country toward a society similar to where I came from, where people are locked into a vision imposed onto them by the state. In closed, authoritarian societies, the brainwashing of the population is achieved by subordinating schools, media and arts to an officially approved ideology; suppressing dissent; jamming of outside sources of information, and sealing the borders to citizens inside the country. These same citizens are taught to believe that their country is the most compassionate, superior society on the planet. In the USA, information is available for those who are curious and can think. Obama is replacing America's economic system with state control and reliance on the government. He is doing this because his supporters are brainwashed into believing that their country is inferior, intolerant and unjust and must be transformed. Was it Michael Moore and his movie about the great Cuban health care system who convinced millions of Americans that their country needs to be transformed? Or Thomas Friedman, writing columns in the New York Times about China's great engineering projects, built by slaves to the state, as they were in ancient Egypt or Rome? Was it the university professors, living in their tenured comfort, preaching to their students an imaginary reality, pining for a European welfare model that is in the process of disintegration? I've seen the future Obama is talking about, and it is hopeless. Our main motivation for emigrating from the USSR was the desire to protect our children from discrimination and a hope for a better future. Americans who care about future of their children don't need to emigrate — they need to vote in November to stop Democrats from transforming free people into subservient masses