In a statement that reveals one of the key strategies of the Obama administration – and indeed of the Left as a whole, Arne Duncan, Obama's new secretary of education, recently defended the inclusion of “education” funding in the “stimulus” bill by stating that improvement in education is the only long-term stimulus.
As Nicholas Gramsci maintained (as Rush so astutely pointed out in his first book so many years ago) and as Obama's close associate William Ayres (who surely knows the new secretary well) came to realize, getting control of the minds of the young is the surest way to underpin a revolution.
Since the radicals of the sixties “grew up” and melded into the woodwork of our education system, this process has already been moving inexorably ahead for decades, and the results can already be seen in our historically and morally uneducated young who voted in droves for Obama. The Left now has the power to crush the opposition that has struggled against it all these years and complete its hold on the the education system, guaranteeing its power far into the future. And power, not an electorate educated to "stimlate the economy" is indeed the goal. This may not be secreatary Duncan's personal goal, but then again the Left has always employed useful idiots.
The process is a slow one because it grows with the growth of generations and because its workings must be subtle and not attract attention. Changing the U.S. internally is Obama and the Left's primary goal. The goal of their foreign policy will be to do what has to be done to keep power at home, even at the cost of sacrificing his sympathy for Leftist regimes by making war.
Once America is secured for the Left, then it can unite with the world Left. With the help of an incompetent and gullible media, the administration will distract the electorate with seemingly conservative ideas here and there, and with flowery and vague platitudes, all the while plodding towards their long-term goal.
I am reminded of a favorite line uttered by Tom Selleck in the movie “High Road to China” - “The ox is slow, but the earth is patient.” This could easily be paraphrased to capture the Obama/Left philosophy and resolve: “Revolution is slow, but the left is patient.”
Some parting comments.
Will the Leftist legislators in the House and Senate show the same patience, or will they give the game away in their eagerness?
Is the Right also patient and steadfast, or has it given up?
If the Right will not be a force to confront Obama's Left, there is another force at work in the world that also has great patience to achieve its goals: “Jihad is slow, but Islam is Patient”.