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John Aglialoro and David Kelley on the ElectionSubmitted by Lindsay Perigo on Fri, 2012-11-02 22:39
http://johnaglialoro.blogspot.... Producer John Aglialoro and Atlas Society founder David Kelley discuss the election ... Aglialoro: It's no surprise that, after 55 years since Atlas Shrugged was published, Ayn Rand is still being attacked with total disdain by the socialist left. Kelley: John, we knew up front that the movie reviewers, who overwhelmingly subscribe to the socialist left ideology, would trash Atlas Shrugged Part 2, despite the obvious improvements in cinematic quality. They hate the message, and that takes precedence over the artistry in their eyes. You wanted the film to come out before the election because you felt it has an important bearing on the political choice the public faces. Do you think that the critics felt the same connection? That they want to see Obama re-elected? Aglialoro: Yes. The question I have is: Why does the public continue to embrace the political class, who provide nothing but unemployment checks, over the entrepreneurial class, who provide the opportunity for prosperity? That's not what America is about. Ultimately, this election is a referendum on capitalism. Kelley: You remind me of something Ayn Rand said in 1972, about the McGovern-Nixon election. Watching the Democratic convention that year, she noted that the older politicians still believed in capitalism, even though they wanted to hang regulations and welfare programs around its neck, but that McGovern was deeply anti-capitalist. He wanted to redistribute income on a massive scale, with his proposal for a guaranteed income regardless of work. It looks as if we have the same issue in 2012. ...
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The Democrats
If you feel so strongly about that, why don't you go to the nearest police station and open file against Democratic party? America is still a lawful society, isn't it?
The Democratic Party proved its thug nature with the passing of ObamaCare. It broke every rule in the book to get that passed. Look at what it is doing in Benghazi. Yes, America is still a lawful society but the laws are so manifestly unjust that soon enforcement of all the laws will mean dictatorship. What form that will take is open to debate.
The Left is starting to drop the pretense at being "Democratic". Their totalitarian essence is starting to show.
"Democratic Party is a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION."
"Democratic Party is a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION."
If you feel so strongly about that, why don't you go to the nearest police station and open file against Democratic party? America is still a lawful society, isn't it?
Weak statements
Obama cannot bring himself to say that he is a capitalist, and it would be a lie if he did. And that means he has abandoned the vision of the Founding Fathers.
This statement tells me all I need to know. It reveals yet another Objectivist who does not understand what he is dealing with; that the Left is a murderous, totalitarian movement and that the Democratic Party is a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION. To treat them as anything less is ignorance on a massive scale. I swear, most Objectivists I read sound naive, unworldly and just plain uninformed.
There is no fire and no power in anything I read from these two. Imagine if I were to give an interview about 'Atlas Shrugged' and what it meant (and yes I would not mention the racialist stuff). You could rest assured that every Left-liberal reporter would feel threatened by what I said. I would water down nothing and I would make it explicit that the Left's entire philosophy was evil and that the Conservatives shared pretty much every essential premise. I would name the LEFT as the enemy of civilization and their jaws would drop. That's what we need; a goddamned warrior.
Relevent?
I copied this from sodahead
"Throughout
history Communist leaders have seized power by promoting themselves as
populists, and often completely hiding their own ideology. Indeed in a
poll taken after Communist Hugo Chavez' first election victory in
Venezuela, only 3% of the electors believed Chavez to be a Socialist,
let alone a Communist. Currently 32% of Americans believe Obama to be a
Socialist.
The initial stages of Communization of a country invariably begin with seven basic steps:
Seizing Control Over The Free Flow Of The Nation's Money
Obama has stated that he wants to convert the stock the US government
now owns in the nation's banks from preferred stock, which is the case
currently, to common stock. This modification in type of stock may seem
irrelevant at first glance, but under further analysis it is the single
greatest communist policy the US government has ever adopted: It means
that the federal government will control all of the currently publicly
traded major banks and financial institutions in the nation which are
currently in the hands of individual shareholders. Not only will the
current shareholders' rights be trampled, but the control of the
nation's flow of money is the first keystone of communism.
Stripping Capitalists Of Their Assets
According to US bankruptcy code, secured creditors such as the ones
who have outstanding debt against Chrysler and GM, have to be paid
before unsecured creditors. That is the law. Obama has ignored this law,
and seized the vast majority (89% in GM's case) of all "asset value" of
the automakers and taken direct control or given it away for free to
the unions. Karl Marx's theses were all based on the workers owning the
means of production, and thus communism takes hold in America.
Changing The Structures Of Government To Suit
Obama has given the GOP until October to approve his health care plan
which many experts have shown, would be as socialized as Cuba's. If the
Republican Party does not meet his demands, the Democratic Party will
simply change the very rules of the United States Senate to pass their
legislation through simple majority, instead of the 60% which has been
required by the Senate through history. Changing legislation to suit the
leader is another common tactic of communist leaders from Chavez to
Castro.
Taking Advantage Of A Crisis To Impose Communism
Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel published a book entitled The
Plan which would require (yes, require) young Americans regardless of
their political stripe to serve in a direct copy of Hugo Chavez'
red-beret local militias. The Plan also promotes massive taxpayer funded
programs as universally free university tuition and health care as well
as a tax reform to ensure that the middle and upper classes are crushed
by the enormous new government expenditures. Obama has already admitted
such a "soak anyone making over $250,000/year" punitive tax policy.
Emanuel is famous for his quote "you never want a serious crisis to go
to waste…(it’s) an opportunity to do things you think you could not do
before," which is the prototypical process whereby communists seize
power, witness Lenin, Mao, Castro, Tito, et al.
Controlling Higher Education
Obama has already launched legislation to remove private lenders from
student loans which would now all be provided by the federal government
directly, so that it could choose in a totalitarian manner who receives
the loans and who doesn't. Many educational institutions are up in arms
over this legislation as it essentially shifts admissions policy from
the colleges and universities to the federal government. Control of
higher education as in Obama's Pell Grant entitlement is an universal
characteristic of communism to ensure that the young are properly
ideologically indoctrinated.
Punishing Residential Property Owners
Obama's enormous mortgage bailout legislation is little more than a
full blown entitlement program. The plan forces the 92 percent of
responsible home owners to heavily subsidize the irresponsible "ARM-ATM"
mortgage holders who didn't read their ARM mortgages and used their
home equity like ATMs. These taxes would be so overwhelming that many of
the "responsible" majority of mortgage holders could lose their homes.
The punishment leading to the elimination of property owners in favor of
the state is a fundamental tenet of Marxism, as Karl wrote "the
middle-class owner of property: This person must indeed, be swept out of
the way, and made impossible."
Demolishing The Economy To Replace It With State Control
Obama has:
deferral, placing them at an enormous competitive disadvantage against
corporations based anywhere else.
the wealth of this country through taxation," which is a paraphrasing
of Marx's "from each according to his ability, to each according to his
need."
pharmaceutical corporations pay high rebate fees to Medicaid and
promoting the importation of foreign drugs which could include low
potency or outright counterfeit drugs into the nation. The financial
outlook for US pharmaceutical companies has been decimated.
reserve fund, which is the tip of the iceberg in the expectations of the
cost of fully socialized medicine in America. USA Today has stated that
every household in the United States would be on the hook for over half
a million dollars.
All of these policies represent time-honored Communist policies
specifically designed to devastate the free market economy as well as
impoverish and punish the upper and middle classes leading to their
elimination so that the Communist "Dictatorship Of The Proletariat" can
be introduced. It is important to note that in each and every historical
instance Communism has been introduced into democratic countries and
they were all swiftly changed to totalitarian dictatorships of a single
leader benefiting from a "Cult Of Personality."
Policies virtually identical to these were implemented by:
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917 Russia
Josip Broz Tito in 1945 Yugoslavia
Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) in 1949 China
Fidel Castro in 1959 Cuba
Hugo Chavez in 1999 Venezuela
and now they are being implemented by
Barack Hussein Obama in 2009 United States of America.
That is why Bloomberg.com has called Obama a "Manchurian Candidate" set to destroy the US economy once elected."
Perhaps I should have just supplied the link?
They have some interesting surveys
http://m.sodahead.com/united-s...
Christ
Aglialoro: "Obama cannot bring himself to say that he is a capitalist, and it would be a lie if he did. And that means he has abandoned the vision of the Founding Fathers."
Has there ever been any suggestion that Obama could bring himself to admit he's a capitalist? Actually, has Romney? Maybe I missed it.
Fact is, neither are. Romney at best is third-way lite. But you vote for him because he's far less repugnant than Obama by a country mile.
Actually, that may not be fair. Obama is a new phenomenon in US politics: the truly anti-American president. He fundamentally believes, by his rhetoric, that the US system is bankrupt. He's fully beholding to the left agenda of class, race and gender.
But if Romney can reverse the demise of America, I'll convert to Mormonism. No bad thing: they have very nice choirs.