NRB Archives: Top 7 Facts From Obama’s Background That Prove He’s a Socialist
Conclusion
In his chapter on Obama’s presidency, Kurtz writes:
Given all that we’ve learned of Obama’s history, I believe the best way to understand the president’s policies is to see them as a series of steps designed slowly but surely to move the country closer to a socialist ideal. Yet precisely because Obama moves gradually, without an announced ideological plan, the ultimate meaning of his policies will always be subject to dispute. The danger, in fact, is that we will be irreversibly down the path toward socialist transformation before we recognize as a nation what’s at stake.
Knowing what we now know about Obama and his past, it’s easy to see his administration in a whole new light. Viewing the Obama presidency this way, it’s easy to understand why he has concentrated on economic concerns. Kurtz writes:
Obama views just about all social welfare spending as a principled good. Laid against his internal socialist template, these expenditures seem like tiny steps toward a more just and comprehensive form of government largesse.
Obama has framed foreign policy and social matters within a broader context of progressive change:
Obama’s stance toward foreign policy and cultural issues combines quick and easy progressive changes with a still stronger desire to hold political conflict at bay. The point is to keep side issues stable enough to permit Obama to focus on structural changes to the economy.
For Obama, slow motion economic transformation (in a socialist direction) is the key to every other change.
Now we know that, without exaggeration, we can truly call our president socialist. Socialism has been a primary part of his belief system from his college days, and it has not abated on his path to power. Rather, with each mile marker, we can see how Obama has deftly attempted to hide, spin, reframe, and deny his socialism, all the while clinging to it when the rubber meets the road.
For me as a writer, Radical-In-Chief has refined the way I think about Barack Obama and his politics. I’m grateful to Stanley Kurtz for his painstakingly researched, eye opening look into President Obama and his sneaky, modern brand of socialism. Hopefully, the Right can bring light to the truth of Obama’s socialism in time for the 2012 elections. Reading this book is a start.
