House of Eratosthenes

Robin of Berkeley writes in The American Thinker. Get ready for something dark, dark, dark. You can only agree with this if you’ve seen something in human nature, something that will rob you of your faith in it, however incrementally, forever.

And I do agree with it. Every last word.

It’s a chilling moment when the light goes out in someone’s eyes. A once-radiant child hardens from abuse. A woman’s heart shrinks after her husband’s abandonment.

The person looks the same, maybe acts the same. But something is gone, and what’s lost is irretrievable. It’s like when a person dies: in a heartbeat, the soul vanishes.

I witnessed this alteration recently when I visited my goddaughter, a radiant girl. Her mom, a hardcore progressive, has started exposing her to the darkest elements of the left. And the last time I looked in the girl’s eyes, the light had gone out. Disappeared. Just like that.

I see this phenomenon every day: a light dimming. The friendly shopkeeper snaps at me. My cheerful neighbor seems flattened.

And you hear it in the news: people acting strangely, going off the deep end. The most bizarre behavior becoming the new normal.
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Why now? This may be the most important question of our time. Why are some people reaching the boiling point? Why do many others look vacant, like an Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The shootings at military bases, from Little Rock to Fort Hood — why now?

It’s Obama, of course.

Liberals will excoriate me for writing this. They’ll insist that bad behavior is not Obama’s fault. He’s a man of peace.

But study the phenomenon of cults, and the dynamics are always the same. The leader can incite violence without ever getting his hands dirty. Obama is controlling the marionette of the masses.

If Obamamania is a cult, then Obama is the cult leader. Cult leaders routinely pull the strings of their followers. The most extreme example is Charles Manson. He rots in prison for murders he never committed. He didn’t have to do the dirty work. His brainwashed charges did his bidding.

I’m not saying Obama is a Charles Manson. There are varying degrees of manipulation, from using sexy blondes to entice men to buy cars all the way to hypnotizing them to drink poisoned Kool Aid. But there’s a common denominator in all mind control: manipulating people through mind games.

As soon as Obama came on the scene, the programming began…
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First, the vultures starting swooping down on Hillary. Obama chose not to call off the dogs.

Then thugs invaded caucuses. Again, silence.

Which led to vicious misogyny against Sarah Palin and threats on her life. From Obama: not a peep.
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Obama’s greatest magic trick? Brainwashing the masses to believe that racism is a greater danger than radical Islam, and that Obama himself is in constant peril.

Opposing health care means you oppose Obama. Oppose Obama and you’re part of a vast right-wing racist conspiracy.
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Mother Teresa was once asked how she coped with serving the poorest of the poor in Calcutta. She responded that what she saw in the cities of the United States was much more disturbing, because it was a “poverty of the spirit.”

Poverty of the spirit. No truer words can be spoken of the progressive Left.

Oh, I don’t know about all that. They say the same thing about Rush and Beck … that they’re inciting hatred and violence … though I must admit, the manifestation in violence seems to be hard to come by on our side.

It’s not Obama’s fault. Well not directly. It is the whole freakin’ progressive culture he sprang from. He’s just the current figurehead … ok, he’s a little more. He’s also their “salvation”.

Ok, it is a cult. 😉
- philmon | 11/17/2009 @ 19:36
Reading the first sentence of the quote, I thought you ought to go look at tvtropes.org and search “Break the Cutie”.
- Tom The Impaler | 11/18/2009 @ 01:13
I gotta spend more time at that site. They’ve been building up that database like mad, and if you’re not there during the building of it and you suddenly wade into it…it’s like a ninety-year-old man being suddenly dropped into a world of his great-granddaughter’s text-speak and l33t.

About a third of the way into Fountainhead, Ayn Rand goes into detail in the back-story of Elsworth Toohey, the villain. Toohey spends his childhood teaching himself how to be a communist. By the time he’s in college, everybody he knows is completely dependent on him because their souls have been crushed.
- mkfreeberg | 11/18/2009 @ 07:28
This is sad. Really, really sad.

The light goes out. Yes. Especially in children. You tell me which side of the aisle is bent on making sure kids have all the fun stuff taken away from them in school – dodge ball, for instance. You tell me which side is bent on sexualizing them from an early age, taking away their innocence, making sure they hear all the doom n gloom about the environment when they’re only in fifth grade? Making sure they hear early-on how this country is unkind, unfair, mean-spirited, racist, and will never give them a fair shot (especially if they are non-white)?

Hint: It ain’t the Right.
- cylarz | 11/18/2009 @ 13:36
That was a good piece.

I hope, but am somewhat doubtful of, that America can pull back from the brink and go the other way. Will enough people wake up in time? How much pain will it take for that to happen? What level of unemployment, how many 9/11s?

I am not optimistic about the ability of the country as a whole to do so. Certainly there are a lot of those like us, the march on DC proved that. There are tens of millions of us, but there are tens of millions of the dupes and fools too.

Then there is the problem of Republicans. Specifically that they are cowards, they don’t fight for principles and any “opposition” they muster is merely like using a net as a dam. If they won’t fight for us in the political arena, who will? Can we count on there being enough Hoffmans, Palins, and Rubios coming out of the woodwork in the near future?

Damn, maybe it is time to stock up on survival stuff.
- KG | 11/18/2009 @ 14:01
Once again, I like Philmon’s comment. He’s probably my soulmate in another life . (God, that sounded sixties dippy.)

There’s something lacking in this piece, Morgan. She’s getting close, but not quite finding the center. I’ve been having the same problem trying to write about this very topic. There is something squishy about progressive liberalism that defies, for me, hard tacking. It is evil and insidious, nailing down the exact why is difficult. I want to call it soul sucking, but that sounds so silly.

Being unable to define its vileness in easy terms, without sounding cartoonish, is probably why it has spread and is now considered normal, rather than the warped perversion of reality it actually is.
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 14:40
It is soul sucking, literally. If there is something being destroyed, or something being perverted, then you can bet the Father of Lies will be there.

If you believe in Satan, it’s not hard to find the common theme in all of this. If you do not believe in him, then it is more difficult to define and understand the underlying rationales.
- chunt31854 | 11/20/2009 @ 09:33
Daphne, it is intentionally deceptive, and the brilliance of the deceptiveness is that it is contagious to the point where people will repeat the deceptions — without even knowing they are deceptions in many cases, because it “feels” right.

So chunt31854 … you may have a point there.
- philmon | 11/20/2009 @ 09:43
Once again, I like Philmon’s comment. He’s probably my soulmate in another life . (God, that sounded sixties dippy.)

Awww. I am flattered and honored, Daphne. I am likewise a fan of you, as you probably know.

Besides. I have a bit of sixties dippy in me. Which probably only further underscores what you said 😉
- philmon | 11/20/2009 @ 09:48

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