Obama's art workers already tended to put out Soviet-like productions, but I imagine we'll see more of this!
Today, my Facebook has a poster from the White House: LET'S GET TO WORK!
For all the world, truly, like a Soviet propaganda poster:
I hadn't realized BTW that Occupy Wall Street used Soviet propaganda posters as well -- this one from the famous statue by Vutetich -- the Communist Party USA used it to join Occupy:
Of course, all through the campaign, Obama demonized the rich -- it was as if he was visualizing the Daddy Warbucks evil rich man of Soviet propaganda posters:
Then there's this fine bit of collectivism up on the whitehouse.gov site today, taken out of Obama's acceptance speech:
America has never been about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That's the principle we were founded on.
Of course, this accomplishes a number of disruptive thing that acts as Bolshevik-like displacement:
1) It confuses the mind about what socialism is by pretending that it's "not what can be done for us" as if socialism is about the empty hand outstretched for the handout. But it then introduces the notion of "by us" without ever first affirming and validating the individual. "By us" is the collective that then gets reified.
2) Note the sleight-of-hand that invokes the notion of "self-government" as if the individual is validated, but what is meant here is that collective "by us" working "together".
3) This quotation is a corruption of JFK's famous line: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." In JFK's speech, it was about telling people to individually work on behalf of their country -- there was a "you" but not a "by us". JFK was also warning any from demanding the handout, but his path was through the individual "you", not a collective.
4) It's also a corruption of the famous Lincoln idea of "government of the people, by the people and for the people". But note that by picking out only "by the people" and leaving out "of" and "for," some important checks and balances to collectivism are missing.
In other words, the net effect is a Soviet bureaucratic subbotnik -- a "volunteer" work day when everybody has to turn out and work for the state.
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