Michelle Obama Describes American Gleichschaltung
April 9, 2008
Michelle Obama is a window into the soul of the Obama campaign. While Barack Obama is a sophisticated and skillful orator with a unique ability to pander without substance, Michelle tells it like it is. No doubt she and her husband see eye-to-eye on social and economic issues, but only Mrs. Obama reveals the true nature of the Obama campaign. Yesterday in North Carolina Mrs. Obama spoke at Harrisburg preschool.
After law school, she and Barack were beset by loans they’d still be paying had her husband not written two best-sellers, “The Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams From My Father.”
Those debts early in their marriage, she said, equips her husband to better understand the problems many Americans face.
It seems every time Mrs. Obama speaks, she feels the need to lament her student loan payments. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and secured government subsidized debt to pay for her education. Mrs. Obama views the government subsidized loan that allowed her to receive a better education than 99% of Americans as oppressive. Mrs. Obama feels that, since she had to pay for her advanced degree, she is a victim. No doubt she believes that degree should have been paid for with the tax dollars of the more than 99% of who will never attend Yale Law School.
“If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership…for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care,” she said.
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
She is quite explicit here. Her husband is going to use the power of the state to take property from some and give it to others. She laments that she was required to pay for her own Ivy League law degree with subsidized loans and then goes on to explain that in order to get “a revamped education system” the Obama Administration will take from some citizens to pay for others. In Obama’s America, the state will decide what you will be allowed to have and to keep and what should be taken from you and given to others. There is nothing about the America she describes that isn’t socialist. This is a plan to nationalize the economy.
It isn’t just the economy that Obama will nationalize. Mrs. Obama explains that they will also nationalize the people. In a speech at UCLA last February, Mrs. Obama had this to say:
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
In other words, you will serve the state. There is no place for individualism. You will be required to work. He will demand you put down your divisions. You will become better. You will join the movement. You will not be allowed to resist.
In German the word for this is gleichschaltung. Gleichschaltung is a compound word; “gleich” means equal, ‘schaltung’ means switch. Gleichschaltung, therefore, means switching on to the same track or program. It implies alignment or co-ordination. When Hitler assumed power in 1933 gleichschaltung became the specific word used to describe the process for the Nazification of Germany. Gleichschaltung was the Nazi system in which individualism was eliminated. Work was required, all divisions were eliminated, and better Germans were created. When you became gleichgeschaltet, you joined the movement. Michelle Obama perfectly describes American gleichschaltung when she tells us that Obama will demand that you conform to his agenda.
When Michelle Obama describes her husband’s socialist and cultural vision, she is describing an objectively fascist vision. Michelle Obama openly and proudly proclaims her husband’s plan for a socialist nation and a uniform cultural, social and economic America. Under Obama, socialist America will become gleichgeschaltet. Pay attention when she speaks. She is telling it like it is.
Jeffrey Nihart :
Date: April 9, 2008
So what happens if people refuse to be part of the “progressive” liberal Borg collective?
Jeffrey Nihart
R.D. Walker :
Date: April 9, 2008
What happens in any fascist state when individualism raises its anti-progressive, anti-collective head? It is chopped off. Will America have gulags and concentration camps? Doubtful but those who refuse to become better, to be less cynical or who want to go on with their lives as usual will find that their access to the increasingly government controlled economy is problematic. Can it happen here? It already has. Read the chapter on war socialism and Woodrow Wilson in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. It can happen… again.
R.D. Walker :
Date: April 10, 2008
Victor Davis Hansen at NRO:
van-a-gram :
Date: April 10, 2008
As I’ve said before, everyone should re-read “Animal Farm” then listen with a keen ear to the Obama camp. (I say ‘re-read Animal farm’ because apparently most Obama supporters are young and dumb and need the socialist maifesto of B. Hussein put into a context they can grasp.)
Pat Hash :
Date: April 10, 2008
Yes, Obama supporters are young dum phucks that are getting an orgasm over him. The danger is that they could put him in the White House.
God Help Us.
R.D. Walker :
Date: April 10, 2008
Hey Susan43, it took me about 20 seconds of Googling to find the transcript of M. Obama’s entire speech.
Let’s look at some of that speech I didn’t quote in the boddy of the post.
Mutual obligation to one another? Where in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is my obligation to be my neighbor’s keeper? It isn’t. There is nothing in the American republic or the Constitution that mandates a socialistic obligation to one and other. Michelle Obama’s warped view of the state and culture are based on typical progressive nonsense. She is pursuing the progressive desire to subordinate the individual to the collective; it is obvious to all who want to see it. The context of the entire speech is that Barack Obama wants revolutionary change in which individualism will be limited, individual liberty will be subordinated to the needs of the collective and participation in The Movement will be coerced. Michelle may not be a fascist, but she repeats fascist talking points like it is second nature.
LisaP. :
Date: April 11, 2008
Oh, that Michelle, such a silly witch. She’s apparently unaware that the average IQ of those of us who are paying attention to her little speeches is not in the mere double digits. I look forward to the inauguration of President McCain.
pet :
Date: April 11, 2008
I came across your site today… and it is so weird. Some people praising Bishop, and others critisizing Obama…
No where mentioning that if the US were to redirect the trillions of dollars they are spending on the invasion and occupation of the soverign nation Iraq – we could have free health care and education. Even if we don’t redirect it – we need to stop the war and SAVE the money and the lives.
McCain said he would keep the war going for 100 years “if necessary”. And you are OK with that?
If you are – you are as scary as him.
R.D. Walker :
Date: April 11, 2008
Pet, is English not your first language? Here is what McCain said…
Where in that does McCain call for 100 years of war? Have we had 60 years of war in Japan? 50 Years of war in Korea? So Pet, are you just propagating a lie or do you not understand English well?
Bishop’s partner in crime was Bernard Coard right up until the month Coard and his cronies put him against the wall and killed him. Then, as a young paratrooper, I went to Grenada and helped take out Coard and his RMC goons. I am proud of that and don’t see much difference between Coard and Bishop. I salvaged the photos and posted them on this site for their historical value. There are people praising Bishop for the same reason your post is here. I don’t delete posts here unless they violate the written terms. None of the people who run this site will EVER praise Maurice Bishop.
As for your fantasies about free health care and education, if those things become “free” they will be worth about what you pay for them. Socialism doesn’t work. Never has. Never will.
John :
Date: April 14, 2008
Btw, “sovereign” Iraq does not equate “democratic” or “free” or “prosperous” or “free-choice” Iraq.
Not all war costs are sunk costs. Thinking merely in economic terms and other numbers, the US shouldn’t have gone to North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Okinawa, Korea. And ofc. they could’ve skipped the fight against British rule and the Civil War…
R.D. Walker :
Date: April 14, 2008
John
Good catch. The only thing “sovereign” in Iraq prior to 2003 was Saddam Hussein. There wasn’t a damned thing sovereign about the Iraqi people.
neal5x5 :
Date: April 14, 2008
Hitler was “sovereign” in a lot of Europe in 1944 when the Allies invaded. Japan had a lot of “sovereign” lands in Asia and the Pacific. In fact, the “sovereign” Axis nations “sovereigned” about 72.7 million people to death. Posession may be 9/10ths of the law, but it don’t mean a damn when compared to right and wrong.
Robin Corkery :
Date: May 19, 2008
When I was a boy in Germany, I understood gleich to mean right away,
as in “make it snappy”. Perhaps when used as a prefix to schaltung the meaning changes slightly.
Eldon Braun :
Date: November 12, 2008
Good for her. Ever been to France? Health and dental care are universal, and higher education is free depending on which school you qualify to attend. The United States can learn a few things from Europe, and hopefully soon will.
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 12, 2008
Eldon, I am not willing to sell my freedom in liberty out for dependency. You may see free shit from the government as a good thing. I recognize it for what it is: the wages of slavery… feed and veterinary care for human livestock. I don’t want forced dependency on the government. I don’t want a “benevolent” bureaucracy doling out and withholding necessities as it sees fit. I don’t want a mommy state that treats me like a child. I don’t want the permanent adolescence of the French.
If I knew for certain that socialized medicine was going to cost less and be superior to what we have now, I still wouldn’t want it. I don’t want the United States to be a nation of dependent children. Suckling at the teat of the state is a foul activity for adults.
You can beg for handouts from your fellow citizens and grovel for largess from the treasury if you want, but I am not like you. I respect myself.