Maybe too close to socialist

Obama the Socialist? Not Even Close - Milos Forman, New York Times

“They falsely equate Western European-style socialism, and its government provision of social insurance and health care, with Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. It offends me, and cheapens the experience of millions who lived, and continue to live, under brutal forms of socialism.” 

Can we agree that Obama’s is not the “brutal form of socialism”?  Can we agree also that Obama is a socialist of the European variety? Could it be that suggesting that the Obama’s critics are “equating Western European-style socialism, and its government provision of social insurance and health care, with Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism.” Is a straw man to obscure the face that Obama’s form is a disaster for this country.

“Marx believed that we could wipe out social inequities and Lenin tested those ideas on the Soviet Union. It was his dream to create a classless society. But reality set in, as it always does. And the results were devastating. Blood flowed through Russia’s streets. The Soviet elite usurped all privileges; sycophants were allowed some and the plebes none. The entire Eastern bloc, including Czechoslovakia, followed miserably. ”

I believe Obama is on this same course, and for the same reasons. He, of course, doesn’t plan to fail but given the chance, he will take  the power so the U.S. can be forced to “improve” in the manner he imagines.

“Today, our democracy, a miraculous gathering of diverse players, desperately needs such unity. If all participants play fair and strive for the common good, we can achieve a harmony that eluded the doctrinaire socialist projects. But if just one section, or even one player, is out of tune, the music will disintegrate into cacophony. ”

This is just not true.  Our countries political is designed for bad actors.  Capitalism is the invisible hand that keeps things coordinated. It is the central planners who’s ideas “disintegrate into cacophony”.  And it is well they should.  All the central planners should follow the very rich, out of this country, so the rest of us can prosper on automatic pilot.