Obama Worship

My Obama Cult thread was closed before I could make my point.

Unless we take it that seriously, we will lose. I bought a set of documentaries for home school, and the units dealing with Hitler's rise to power could have taken their material from the 2008 campaign. It was uncanny.

 

Going from memory to name a few.

• The economic situation
• The messages, (The narrator emphasized that Hitler's speeches were vague and simply made promises of hope for the nation.)
• The civilian security force
• The cultic loyalty of his followers

 

[May want to reread: I had to edit to tighten up some cumbersome wording.]

I watched the unit on Hitler's rise to power again, and took some notes. The documentary is called March to Victory: Road to Berlin.

Describing his first political campaign strategy. The authors called it a "modern whirlwind campaign:"

1)Speeches focused on encouragement with "heaps of vague promises."
2)Huge propaganda effort
3)Appearances were carefully staged, theatrical and with grandiose entrances and much pomp
4)Crowds were a "wide-eyed, frenzied, screaming mass that surrendered to his will and looked upon him with pseudo-religous admiration."
5)He offered something to everyone

• National pride restored
• Work to the unemployed
• Prosperity
• Social Harmony
• End to class distinction (fairness)

His campaign didn't win him the election, but it won the virtually unknown National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI) 107 seats in the Reichstat, and made them the 2nd largest party in the nation.

Prior to this, to rise to the position of the supreme leader (fuhrer) of, and to build support for the NAZI party, he created youth organizations much like the BSA, all busy doing community and national service. And to preserve his positition, he organized a staff guard (S.S.) responsible directly to him. (Apparently, as head of a party he could do this.) Compare this to Obama's "call to serve" http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=54994 , and his stated desire for a civilian security force equal to the military and responsible directly to himself, http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=54550 .

Then the market crash of 1929 hit. Things got tough everywhere, and the Socialists seized their moment. Under tremendous pressure from the public, Paul von Hindenberg appointed Adolph Hitler as Germany's Chancellor in January 30, 1933. His reception was described as follows:

The rest is history. Things to watch for:

• The systematic intimidation of businesses and other organizations that don't buy into The Great Sellout (my term for the Bailout)
• A revision of the oath of allegiance required of the military
• Measures taken to solidify the power of the party and increase its scope and power (Bailout, Census grab, elimination of the term limit on the President)
• Bold usurpations of his authority
• Shows of placating political opponents in a front to get them to yield ground.

 

It's done to mock the cultic mindset of his followers, a mindset obvious to the most casual observer.