''The left's love for Mao, Castro, Chavez and the rest of these murderous despots should serve as a window into their view of America and the Constitution. For one cannot hold Mao and the Constitution in high regard simultaneously.''
White House communications director Anita Dunn's comments regarding her unabashed admiration for Mao Zedong seems to have conservatives scratching their heads in disbelief. Once again, we have another left-wing radical who loves a mass-murdering dictator. Indeed, Jamie Glazov's column in WND
, "Why Obama's lieutenants love Mao," attempts to analyze it and come to some conclusion to explain it. But the reason is very simple and logical when considering the breadth of the contemporary left-wing approach to politics.
The left loves mass murderers and dictators like Mao, Che, Castro and Hugo Chavez for one simple reason: These barbaric individuals were able to do to their opposition what the American left wishes they could do to conservatives and anyone else who disagrees with them. The problem the left faces in America is that they still have some remnants of the Constitution remaining in effect that's keeping them from that goal. But all one has to do is just listen to the vitriol and foaming-at-the-mouth hatred spewing from some of these left-wing talkers, commentators, bloggers and politicians. Combine that rhetoric with their love for mass-murdering dictators and their insatiable desire to do away with the Second Amendment, and it's by no means a stretch to assume that, given the power to do so, the left would be subjecting conservatives to political persecution that would make Josef Stalin feel like he was too soft.
Now we have the Obama administration, starting at the very top, declaring war on a particular news organization, Fox News, while simultaneously issuing a veiled threat to the rest of them that they better stay in line. Calls for the revival of the Fairness Doctrine, local diversity in radio and other free-speech-eliminating trial balloons being floated are the left's way of getting a foothold in their effort to regulate the First Amendment out of existence (at least for the opposition). Once that happens and Fox News and talk radio are silenced, the flood gates will open and the final collapse of the America we once knew will commence very quickly.
Know this: All dictatorships have a state run media propaganda machine (a monopoly established by forcible elimination of dissent) that is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the party in power. The curious thing about the American media is that 90 percent of it has willingly positioned itself as a mouthpiece for this administration while simultaneously attacking the remaining media outlets for not being on the lapdog bandwagon. Many years ago, the thought of a president threatening a major news organization would have had the entire news media in a frenzy about abuse of power, but not today. WIth the news media in lockstep with the administration, they have voluntarily abandoned their First Amendment rights, for the First Amendment was not established to protect individuals and organizations when agreeing with the government, it was established to protect them when disagreeing.
The left's love for Mao, Castro, Chavez and the rest of these murderous despots should serve as a window into their view of America and the Constitution. For one cannot hold Mao and the Constitution in high regard simultaneously.
Mike Michaelian