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Mar. 24, 2012 11:15pm

Wayne Allyn Root is a Capitalist Evangelist, entrepreneur, and Libertarian-conservative Republican. He is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. […]

Wayne Allyn Root is a Capitalist Evangelist, entrepreneur, and Libertarian-conservative Republican. He is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. Wayne's latest book is out on April 15, 2013: "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: Secrets to Protecting Your Family, Your Finances, and Your Freedom."

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Liberals of course deny that President Obama is a Socialist. They laugh at that idea. They call it silly, comical, absurd, ridiculous. But they know that the word “Socialist” is toxic in American politics. So it’s important for them to deny that Obama is a Socialist.

What bothers me is when conservatives go along with that argument. Virtually every conservative I know believes that Obama is a Socialist, but they’re afraid to say it in the media- for fear it might sound “extreme” and make them look silly.

I have no such problem. The key is not to just call Obama a Socialist. You have to prove the label is true and accurate.

The reason many ultra-liberals and actual Socialists deny Obama is a Socialist is because he doesn’t go far enough for them. To them, he is a moderate uniter, compromiser, and appeaser. Obama is simply too nice and too willing to compromise his principles to be a Socialist. But they miss the brilliant strategy. Obama is achieving what they never could. Obama understands how to play the game. He understands how to disguise his intentions and compromise to achieve incremental success. To move the ball down the field towards the eventual goal of Socialism. It doesn’t happen with one Hail Mary pass. It doesn’t happen if you admit you are a Socialist. It happens slowly, with patience and discipline. That’s what makes Obama the most dangerous Socialist this country has ever seen.

First, let’s prove that Obama is a Socialist. To do that we must examine Socialism.

One of Socialism’s central tenets is demonization of the wealthy. Sound familiar? Obama plays the game of class warfare like no politician in history. His entire agenda is about targeting, demonizing, denigrating and punishing the rich. For Obama hunting the rich is a sport. It’s like shooting rich people in a barrel.

Another central tenet of Socialism is redistribution of wealth, accomplished in several ways. First, raise taxes to outlandish levels. A socialist thinks what’s yours, belongs to the state. If Obama has his way we’ll all be paying tax rates in the range of 70% or higher, while losing all deductions. Obama’s answer for every problem is taxes. Every speech is about taxes. Every State of the Union is about taxes. Some people play golf, others play tennis. Obama’s hobby is raising taxes.

But, if a Socialist President is blocked from raising taxes by a Republican Congress, there are other ways to skin the taxpayer. He can erode the lifetime savings and assets of Americans by asking the Fed to print trillions of dollars of fake money. Inflation is a stealth way to bankrupt anyone with income and assets (i.e. the rich) — without ever raising a tax.

Just as effective is spending the country into bankruptcy. Obama has added over $5 trillion to the national debt in only three years (primarily to buy votes) in the form of stimulus, green energy “investment,” entitlements, food stamps, supporting illegal immigrants, free cell phones, free healthcare. That debt overwhelms the system and cripples the economy. Obama is enslaving our children and grandchildren to big government and big taxes for years to come. Sound familiar? Obama is busy overwhelming the system right now.

Socialism is assured when a majority of citizens become dependent on big government and are “bribed” to keep voting for the candidates that promise to keep the goodies and bribes coming. Sound familiar?

Or, government can just pass so many new rules and regulations that it’s impossible to do business anymore, thereby wiping out small business, jobs, and the U.S. economy. For all intents and purposes, we become slaves and our master is the EPA or National Labor Relations Board. With business failing, we all become dependent on government jobs or entitlements to put food on the table. Sound familiar? Obama has enacted 60,000 new rules in only three years. A private company (Boeing) was stopped by Obama’s NLRB from opening a plant in a non-union state. This sure sounds like government control over the economy to me.

Socialism is about government control. It doesn’t have to be a direct takeover. Government can bail out Wall Street, banks, mortgage providers like Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, insurance giants like AIG, and automakers like GM & Chrysler. The result is government control through intimidation and coercion. Soon government is demanding student loans be forgiven, contraception be provided for free, people who don’t pay their mortgages be allowed to stay in their homes, and electric cars be manufactured — even if no one wants them. Sound familiar?

Socialists also violate private property rights. Obama did that when he stole GM and Chrysler from its investors and shareholders and awarded ownership to his auto union buddies. He’s doing it again by demanding private insurers provide free contraception.

Socialists discredit the opposition. Obama had Homeland Security put out directives to law enforcement declaring Libertarians, conservatives, and Tea Partiers as possible domestic terrorists.

Socialists take away civil rights. Obama extended and expanded the Patriot Act to listen to our calls and emails without warrants. He signed legislation to allow for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charges. And, his Obamacare bill allows for the creation of a civilian defense force on U.S. soil that answers to…guess who? The President.

Socialists want to control and censor the media. Obama supports the Fairness Doctrine, which would cripple conservative talk radio. Meanwhile his bailout of newspapers and GE, parent of NBC, CNBC and MSNBC, allows government to manipulate and intimidate the media. And of course Obama has Hollywood under his thumb.

Yes, Obama is definitely a Socialist. But he’s a stealth Socialist. He believes in achieving his goals slowly, subtly. He believes in hiding and disguising his intentions. He believes in incremental success. If this was football, Obama would run a “3 yards and a cloud of dust” offense. Just keep moving the ball slowly towards the goal line. He’s smarter than any Socialist we’ve ever seen. He understands you can’t destroy America by making it clear your intent is to destroy America.

And you can’t be re-elected if voters can clearly see that you are a Socialist. So you bob and weave, lie and deceive…put on a $2500 suit and silk tie…smile at all times…kiss babies and hug middle Americans…play with your dog Bo…trot out your two sweet daughters…and talk about “fairness” a hundred times a day.

Four years ago Obama slipped up and said “I just want to spread the wealth around.” Just days ago he slipped up again, when an open microphone caught him telling the Russian President to just be patient. “I’ve an election to win then I’ll have more flexibility.”

This is the Obama plan. A second term so he can finish off what he started. Make 12 million illegal immigrants – disproportionate recipients of government programs – into voting citizens. Ban all oil drilling and watch gas soar to unimagined heights. Ban gun ownership. Raise taxes to levels that will destroy entrepreneurship and starve his political opposition. Make unions the most powerful force in the economy. Intimidate big business into supporting his agenda. Silence conservative talk radio. Give our military secrets to the Russians. Without having to ever face another election, Obama is free to be the real Obama for the first time.

Liberals, Obama defenders, and even Socialists are right about one thing. Obama is no ordinary Socialist. Obama is a hybrid. He is a Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/and Corporatist all rolled into one. And that, my friends, is the deadliest breed America has ever seen.

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee.

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sbenard
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 1:47am
Another sign of socialism — it transforms the working class into the welfare class.

Socialism doesn’t just fail. It DESTROYS!

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blazing scriptures
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 3:01am
With big government comes great power with access to massive wealth. Great power and massive wealth will always attract the most corrupt with the greatest ability to take advantage of great power to steal massive wealth, such as George Soros. Such people are truly evil and heartless. They will kill anyone who gets in their way. And they will always strive for greater power and greater wealth. They know the biggest government possible would be a one world government, the New World Order. It would have the greatest power possible with access to the most massive wealth of all, the wealth of the entire world. The New World Order will have the most corrupt oppressive government in the history of the world. There’s not much time to stop it, if it’s not too late already. God, help us all.

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betterthantv
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 7:29pm
Wayne nails it once again!

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groobiecat
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:10am
This was a pretty entertaining–if completely apocryphal read. To understand the right’s approach you polemics, you must understand first that they make only assertions. they do not use specifics or facts, but they *do* use a lot of hyperbolic adjectives to make their case while ignoring inconvenient facts. Let’s look at the assertion that obama is a socialist vs. the facts.

ASSERTION: “One of Socialism’s tenets is demonization of the wealthy.” First, no, it isn’t a “tenet.”
FACT: The UK is a socialist country. This is not arguable. It is headed by a conservative who decidedly does not demonize the wealthy. Second, per usual, you neglect to mention that Obama passed the Bush tax cuts in 2010–cuts that, again, inarguably, favor the wealthy.

ASSERTION: “Raising taxes to outlandish levels…If Obama has his way we’ll all be paying tax rates in the range of 70% or higher.”
FACT: Taxes are lower now than they have been in decades.
FACT: Reagan raised taxes many times during his presidency–was his “hobby” raising taxes?
FACT: Obama wants to raise taxes only on the wealthiest (see “Buffett rule,” which this “analysis” fails to mention) by a minimal amount–back, in fact, to levels where they were decades ago.
FACT: The deficit, which ballooned under Bush requires additional revenues to address–revenues which the Bush tax cuts that Obama continued to contribute to the deficit.
FACT: The disparity between the richest and the poorest is the highest i

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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:09am
  @groobiecat,
  
  “ASSERTION: “One of Socialism’s tenets is demonization of the wealthy.” First, no, it isn’t a “tenet.””
  
  Does Socialism believe that income disparity is the result of exploitation by those who own capital?
  
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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:14am
  @groobiecat,
  
  “FACT: Obama wants to raise taxes only on the wealthiest (see “Buffett rule,“ which this ”analysis” fails to mention) by a minimal amount–back, in fact, to levels where they were decades ago.”
  
  See here.
  
  The truth about rising gas prices, the stock market, & Warren Buffett’s taxes
  (at 10:46; on Warren Buffet)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYy25kLijA#t=10m46s
  
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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:02am
  @groobiecat,
  
  “FACT: The deficit, which ballooned under Bush requires additional revenues to address–revenues which the Bush tax cuts that Obama continued to contribute to the deficit.”
  
  The deficit requires less government spending, not more taxes.
  
  Bush indeed helped crash the economy, but not because he was doing free market stuff, but because he was pushing government interventions. And Obama is pushing government interventions even more than Bush.
  
  See here.
  
  Continuing on the Road to Ruin
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiInauovWDc
  
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KarlFNMarx
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:16pm
As someone who is a Marxist Socialist, I can assure you that Obama is not a socialist and Wayne Root has no idea about socialist ideas. If Wayne has ever read anything by Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky he really missed the point.

The number one main goal of socialism is taking over the major means of production (the large factories, offices, and farms) under democratic worker, farmer and community control. And I haven’t seen “Comrade” Obama talking about workers taking over the factories, but I have seen Wall Street and corporations giving him billions in private donations.

You really think that socialists would just hands TRILLIONS over to capitalist Wall Street to cover their bad gambles, send 30,000 more troops to fight for oil interests in the Middle East, do nothing while Gov. Scott Walker ended collective bargaining for public sector unions, and continuing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy?

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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:19am
  @KarlFNMarx,
  
  “You really think that socialists would just hands TRILLIONS over to capitalist Wall Street to cover their bad gambles …”
  
  Yes, because … “state capitalism … is nothing more nor less than state socialism turned on its head. In either event, … the result is the bureaucratization of the economic activities of the nation.” – Benito Mussolini
  
  In fact, Crony Capitalism begins with the collectivist belief that everyone that wants to make a living at a particular business SHOULD be doing so, whether people want that particular person to do it, or someone else who can do it better or cheaper.
  
  This leads to anti-trust laws, which provides the means for businesses to get political benefits through lobbying. Wealthy businesses like anti-trust laws, because they create barriers to entry and allow them to sell at higher prices.
  
  You might find these interesting.
  
  See here.
  
  Anti-Trust and Monopoly (with Ron Paul)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4gRRk2i-M
  
  And here.
  
  How to Reach the Left | Roderick T. Long
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hjO1ak4_M
  
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- sbenard
  Posted on April 9, 2012 at 1:52am
  Do you honestly expect anyone to read your drivel and pablum? Just thought I’d let you know that I didn’t! You wasted all that time writing it uselessly.
  Obama is the Master of Marxism! We recognize it! You foolishly don’t!
  
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A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:12pm
As Mussolini noted, Corporatism (State Capitalism) is essentially State Socialism, because it bureaucratizes production.

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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:45pm
  Wayne Allyn Root recently wrote an article for Fox News, saying:
  
  Understanding the Ron Paul phenomenon
  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/02/04/understanding-ron-paul-phenomenon/
  
  “If I was Mitt Romney I’d be looking at harnessing all that excitement and passion by offering Ron Paul either Treasury Secretary or Federal Reserve Chairman – and announcing it to the world. Embrace Ron Paul, bring him and his son Senator Rand Paul into your inner circle, and give them an important role at the GOP Convention. Sure, just being the anti-Obama could win the election, but having the enthusiasm and passion of Paul’s supporters will ice the victory. Embracing the Ron Paul phenomenon is the key to beating Obama in November.”
  
  As a Ron Paul supporter, the passion I have is based on Paul’s commitment to the Constituiton and his understanding of Austrian Economics, which favors a hard currency such as our Founders envisioned, and which allowed him to see the housing collapse coming in 2001.
  
  Romney is NOT a Constitutionalist, and in spite of his business prowess, he remains a Keynesian, so he would fumble his role as President with regards to the economy in such a way as to seem to discredit the free market.
  
  He has considered a VAT Tax, as well as automatic hikes in the Minimum Wage. So, he doesn’t have a clue what to do with the mess that Obama will have left him.
  
  Ron Paul 2012, or bust!
  
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Stupid Windmill
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:36am
Honestly I skimmed over most of this as all I needed was to read the end to realize that this article is a complete waste.

Even though Obama is not a Socialist by any measure which Liberals correctly say, he is still a Socialist, BUT WORSE!!!!!! That is all that this article is saying.

Oh yeah, Socialist is a bad word the same reason Liberal is a bad word. Clever think tanks and political language users.

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- kc4freedom
  Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:18pm
  So you skipped over the article, disregarding any of its contents,
  But claim its wrong,
  That Obama isn’t a Socialist,
  But don’t bother to say why he is not a socialist or even attempt to dispute any of the points within the article.
  Sure that makes sense.
  How so typical of you.
  Thanks Mr. Windmill for proving the article as factual and further legitimizing the arguments as presented by Mr. Root.
  Since you admitted to not reading the article you wouldn’t have known that.
  Question,
  If reading the article was a waste of your time,
  What do you call your efforts to post such an uninformed opinion?
  
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