We Are Being Played; It's Time We Learned 'The Game'
The Socialist Mind Game: A Brief Manual -- Oleg Atbashian, American Thinker
We are being played; it's time we learned the game.
Conservatives have their Constitution. Progressives have their Narrative. The current battle for America is between these two concepts, and each side uses different rules to fight it.
One set of rules is consistent with an unchanging objective: limited government and individual freedoms. The other side's rules are as fickle as their goals, which are never fully disclosed beyond the equivocal references to fairness and hyphenated forms of justice. They will have to remain vague and deny their true allegiances until a time when American voters will no longer squirm at the word "socialism."
And yet spotting them isn't that hard. As a bird is known by his feathers, socialists are known by their Game.
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My Comment: I am not surprised on who wrote this commentary .... it takes someone like Oleg Atbashian .... a former Communist propagandist from the old Soviet Union to understand how this White House (and I can argue to a lesser degree other White House administrations) works when it comes to laying out their media game-plan to push their agenda and policies. While I am from Russia (grew up in the Ukraine) .... and Oleg Atbashian is from the Ukraine .... we both had the same experiences of growing up in a society where the government knew how to use "the media" to promote their causes/positions/policies to a public that were skeptical but not knowledgeable enough to appreciate that they were being lied to. Even when I reflect on it (like today) I cannot help but be impressed on how the Soviets were masters at playing 'The Game'. It was only when dissent and alternative points of views were becoming public that the communist system started to buckle. In my opinion .... the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl was the tipping point that finally destroyed the credibility of the state and their media organs .... nothing was the same in the Soviet Union after that incident .... and their 'Game' was finally dead.
When I look a the United States and I am asked for my opinion as an outsider on where do I see things going .... I tell all my American libertarian/conservative/and progressive friends that for the U.S. the tipping point will be it's fiscal/debt crisis. There will come a time when the bills can no longer be paid and that the services that everyone relies on can no longer be covered or provided. In short .... we will end up like Greece/Spain/Argentina/Ireland/etc... and the message that both Republicans and Democrats have always use in conjunction with their allies in the media to justify their uncontrollable spending and growth of government will no longer hold for the simple reason that the fallout (like Chernobyl in the old Soviet Union) can no longer be contained.
I do hope that I am wrong .... but I doubt it. I have been to places like Ireland (2007), Greece (2009), and Spain (2010) .... and what I saw happened there is happening right now in the U.S. .... and while the U.S. is a far richer country than any of these three countries .... I am also a person who lived in the Soviet Union when it was at the height of it's power .... and today it is in the dustbin of history.
In conclusion, this post by Oleg Atbashian should be bookmarked and read once in a while .... just to remind oneself on how 'The Game' is played by many in Washington ... as well as in other countries.
