Suckers for Obama

May 08, 2009
Suckers United for Change
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
Now that we're more than 100 days into the Obama presidency, the 
handwriting is on the wall regarding our new leader's game plan for 
America.  Spend other people's money like a Madoff on steroids.  Let every 
enemy on the planet know there's a wimp in the White House. Let every ally 
know the wimp in the White House will do nothing to help them when push 
comes to shove.  Let the 50 states know there's a power coup in play that 
strips them of constitutionally guaranteed liberties.  Let every company 
know that neither they nor their non-union employees are safe from 
Chicago-Way thugs and their mouthpieces in the media.  Let the 300 million 
American citizens know that the rule of law, applied equally to all, is 
about to be replaced by special favoritism in the form of "empathy."

All in all, one would need to be a numbskull not to see banana republic 
written all over the current administration and its intent.

If asked for a word to describe an Obama voter, there is only one that any 
sentient person could offer:  SUCKER.

These are folks who buy a used car from a slick-suited, smooth-talking, 
salesman of the decade who laughs every step of the way to the bank. 
These are folks who agree to 25 medical tests to find out they have a 
planter's wart.  These are folks who call immediately to buy the $19.95 
super deal on an under-bed storage box they could buy any old day at 
Wal-Mart for a buck.  These are the folks who think day old bread will 
make you sick.

They're the kind of voters that every crooked politician has drooling 
dreams about every night of the year.

So, the next time that college kid or one of his professors beams that we- 
were-united-for-change malarkey at you, laugh in his face.  The next time 
that brilliant-beyond-brilliant Gen X or Y business executive gloats on 
his liberal-white-guilt vote, just shake your head and send him a sympathy 
card.  The next time that giddy woman with an Obama crush fawns over The 
One, roll your eyes and stay clear; she has a defect you don't want in a 
future mate.

Has ever a bigger lot of fools been assembled on planet earth?

Could any of these folks work his way out of a wet paper bag?

Now, the silly thing in all this is that anyone with a single grain of 
common sense saw right through the man with the postage-stamp sized resume 
the first day he announced his bid for the presidency.  And as exit 
polling demonstrated beyond any doubt, Obama voters were so 
swept-off-their-feet they didn't even know the basic facts about the 
candidates last year.  They voted with their feelings, their fancies, and 
their fools' gold blinders.

Were they just old fashioned ninnies?  Or were they actually brainwashed? 
Now, this is a very good question.

Brainwashing and the Obama Cult

Brainwashing has a pretty sordid history and has been a stock in trade of 
totalitarian regimes for a century.  Here is a good description from How 
Stuff Works:

     In psychology, the study of brainwashing, often referred to as thought 
reform, falls into the sphere of "social influence." (snip) For instance, 
the compliance method aims to produce a change in a person's behavior and 
is not concerned with his attitudes or beliefs. It's the "Just do it" 
approach.


     Persuasion, on the other hand, aims for a change in attitude, or "Do 
it because it'll make you feel good/happy/healthy/successful." The 
education method (which is called the "propaganda method" when you don't 
believe in what's being taught) goes for the social-influence gold, trying 
to affect a change in the person's beliefs, along the lines of "Do it 
because you know it's the right thing to do." Brainwashing is a severe 
form of social influence that combines all of these approaches to cause 
changes in someone's way of thinking without that person's consent and 
often against his will.


We tend to think, as Americans, that any form of brainwashing among a free 
people, not under the threat of physical harm, would be impossible to 
employ with success.

However, during this election season, we saw a generalized favoritism for 
the Obama campaign among influential media people, on university campuses 
and even in K-12 education.  We saw a prolific hagiography campaign that 
plastered billboards and sides of buildings in major cities.  We saw 
manufactured "news" that ogled over crowds for Obama, but failed to 
mention the free rock concerts that immediately preceded Obama's 
best-attended speeches.  We saw Hollywood celebrities in full-thrall mode 
for The One.  We saw religious imagery hijacked for ephemeral "change," 
which was never defined, yet had mesmerizing effects.

This was a classic case of the brainwashing techniques of persuasion and 
education models, as described above.

So, who were indeed the biggest suckers for Obama's ubiquitous kumbayah 
rhetoric?  Hands-down the sucker prize goes to those most prone to 
groupthink brainwashing techniques of persuasion:  the young.  Barack 
Obama carried the 18-29 year olds by a whopping 66% majority.  According 
to Pew's analysis, this vote chunk was perhaps the biggest deciding factor 
in 2008.  Obama also garnered 52% of the 30-44 age group.  These were the 
only age groups that voted in majorities for Barack Obama.

This makes perfect sense, when one acknowledges that universities and 
public education institutions have been leftist indoctrination centers for 
the past 30 years.  The vast majority of American Universities subject 
entering freshmen to Sensitivity Training seminars as part of orientation.

In 2000, Reason published an in-depth article on university brainwashing 
seminars, euphemistically called "sensitivity training."  The author, Alan 
Charles Kors, provides an in-depth look into the Orwellian programs 
offered at nearly every American university.  It is a frightening 
overview, entitled "Thought Reform 101," which notes:

Tony Tillman, in charge of a mandatory "Social Issues" orientation at 
Dartmouth, explained in the Journal that students needed to address "the 
various forms of `isms': sexism, racism, classism," all of which were 
interrelated. Oberlin "educated" its freshmen about "differences in race, 
ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and culture," with separate orientations for 
blacks, Hispanics, gays and lesbians, and Americans of Asian descent. 
Columbia University sought to give its incoming students the chance "to 
reevaluate [and] learn things," so that they could rid themselves of 
"their own social and personal beliefs that foster inequality." Katherine 
Balmer, assistant dean for freshmen at Columbia, explained to the Times 
that "you can't bring all these people together...without some sort of 
training."

American universities are unashamedly using brainwashing techniques, and 
have finally produced a generation willing to vote for an "acceptable" 
cult leader for president.

If the words, "I've been had," are not at this juncture forming in the 
mind of nearly every Obama voter, I would give terrific odds that he has 
been brainwashed and needs to reclaim his common sense before the clock 
strikes 12 on the United States of America.

We live in a dangerous world, where no quarter will be given those whose 
brains have been turned to mush.  If you were an Obama Cult follower, the 
time to wake up and smell the coffee is right this very minute.

**Inspiration for this column from reader, Lee Hazel.  My sincere thanks 
to him.**

Kyle-Anne Shiver is a frequent contributor to American Thinker.  She 
welcomes your comments at commonsenseregained.com.

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