Mark Levin has prominently shown us the many strands of utopian links between our current President and those held by such past presidential utopians as Wilson & Roosevelt, whose radical egalitarian actions we're still feeling today. But a few days ago he shared with us another of Obama's redistributive predecessors, Huey Long. And although more akin to mixture of Wilson and Roosevelt in tone (i.e., less conspicuous), Obama's language certainly has a lot in common with that old Louisiana kingfish.
Doesn't this from 1934...
(Or Levin's audio reference from Tuesday's show, via History Matters website.)
...sound eerily similar to our Harvard 'Huey' of modern times?
2001: "the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change"
(This was among his earliest political arguments tying the SCOTUS and civil rights together into a redistributive discussion. Here's Levin's comments back then on an extended portion of this interview.)
2008: "spread the wealth around"
(Again, Levin's comments back then.)
He also uses those similar local hypotheticals to enduce emotion, inciting class envy, to justify the promotion of wealth redistribution, whether it's Huey's 'barbeque' and numerical limitations on wealth, shared by Obama (somewhere between $200K & $$250K, depending on the month) or Barack's comparison of his wage to that of the 'waitress' for the 'roof over her head' and 'her kid to go to college' (they always USE the children).
2009: "those who are more fortunate are going to have to pay a little bit more" (i.e., 'tax the rich')
2011: "millionaires and billionaires"
2011: "fair share"
Now, although his latest attention lies between protecting his unlawful healthcare law from an unconstitutional ruling (and thus inciting a political struggle between the branches of gov't, which I may talk about later), lashing out at Republican budget proposals with none of his own, and promising the moon to gain reelection, the redistributive argument is infused within all of these instances. It's who they were (Wilson, Roosevelt, Long, and scores of others, past and present), just as it's who he is. And of course, the facts are always omitted for rhetoric and ideology...
And like Long, Obama is a promoter of redistributive utopianism...but also like Long, he denies his Marxist tendencies, even though they're patently obvious.
