Does Anyone Get It Yet?, Part I

By Robert Ringer

I didn’t watch much news for a couple of weeks, because I found it frustrating that almost no one — not even the staunchest conservatives – seemed to get it. Today, however, I am happy to see that a handful of commentators are edging closer to acknowledging what is really happening to America.

Even Bill O’Reilly is now using the term socialism (though he still claims that BHO has “good intentions”). O’Reilly, you will recall, is the guy who, back in the good old days when Rev. Wright was entertaining us nightly, insisted “I don’t believe for a second that Obama shares the reverend’s radical views.” (If the latter is not a precise quote, it’s a close paraphrase of statements about Obama that O’Reilly has repeatedly made.)

Now that I’m back to watching the news, I’m happy to see that Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, and Newt Gingrich have begun to openly accuse BHO of lying. The other night, Hannity even used the word
Bolsheviks in reference to what the Obamacrats are doing to this country.

But Dick Morris is even closer to zeroing in on the BHO endgame. He has frequently stated that BHO is well aware that his policies will destroy the U.S. economy. And he’s right. BHO knows exactly what he is doing. Morris believes that transforming the U.S. into a socialist country is more important to BHO than winning a second term. Pretty good insight – but on that one, he’s still a step away from fully getting it.

I’ll get to what I mean by that in a second. But first, I feel compelled to say that in the Getting It Derby, Glenn Beck is ahead of the field by a solid margin. Beck just may be the most talented commentator in television history. Amazingly, he managed to overcome his drug and alcohol addictions, and is now one of the most well-informed and brilliant voices in the media.

What sets him apart from his equals is his ability to entertain and his fearlessness when it comes to speaking the unspeakable. However, since Beck switched to his natural habitat (Fox News), events in Washington have forced him to transition from an emphasis on humor to an emphasis on anger.

He is the only person on TV who talks openly about communism in the U.S., and yesterday he referred to BHO as “the master of misdirection.” I don’t know how long the government is going to sit by and allow Beck to feed raw truth to the public, but he is saying things that honestly make me fear for his life.

Even so, I’m not 100 percent certain that even Beck has taken that last step – the one Dick Morris is so close to taking. The step I am referring to is talking candidly to the public about the “D & W Factors” – the factors no one wants to think about, let alone discuss out loud.

For purposes of this article, I will zero in on the D Factor only: Dictatorship. This is the one area where I disagree with Dick Morris (i.e., that BHO is willing to be a one-term president in order to implement his socialist agenda). I don’t believe that BHO has any intention of being a one-term president. Quite the opposite, in fact. I think he much prefers the Hugo Chavez model: Take control, then move swiftly to create economic havoc and use it as an excuse to establish a dictatorship.

Now don’t go giving BHO credit for originality. He is the ultimate no-change president, but a very clever copycat. Getting elected and then using your powers to eliminate all competition is an old trick used by power-hungry thugs in countries large and small.

In Part II of this article, I’ll discuss just one example of where the transition from democracy to dictatorship was pulled off quite smoothly – and quickly – and the masses cheered as they marched happily down the road to serfdom.

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