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Obama vs. Stalin

Tue Oct 28, 2008, 2:17 PM

Mood: Angsty

"Stalin still needed to convince the people that he was the best choice as leader of the USSR. To do this, he entered into an intense campaign to have the people recognize him. Huge portraits of Stalin were place all over the country, upon walls of large buildings and on small posters everywhere. Every store had a small statue of him on display, movies were made about his life, poems, and books even plays were written to celebrate his great leadership. His presence was everywhere, but the truths about his atrocities were well hidden."

On my campus, posters of Obama are given out for free. These full blown, color, epic posters of Barack Obama, labeled VOTE at the bottom, are around 3 feet tall, 2 feet wide. Students place them on every single bulletin board, covering up their entirety. They are placed on walls, every single window on some buildings, blocking light from coming in. Here are some examples: [link] , [link] , [link] . All of the flyers I put out, about the College Republicans meeting and wanting you to come, have Obama stickers placed on them. Every single day it gets worse. Right now, all I can think of is Socialism, Socialism, Socialism. My campus looks as if it was in the USSR, with only Obama propaganda on its walls, and any opposition silenced.

I pray that whatever happens it's the best for us. Obama winning would not be the best for us, it just wouldn't. I could scream 'WAKE UP AMERICA,' but people would just laugh and shake their heads. What's next? He's covered Stalin's similar socialist propaganda, similar socialist economic system, so let's look at what's bound to come our way. It is what frightens me the most.

"Marx had clearly identified organized religion as a threat to the worker because the loyalty of individual workers should be to each other, not to a supreme being. As a result, Stalin took steps to limit the power of religion in the USSR. Churches and mosques were closed and converted into schools or movie theaters. Religious icons were melted down, and meetings were banned throughout the country. Religion was forced to go underground, in order to hide from the prying eyes of Stalin's police."

Frightening or not, it's inevitable.

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~iterate Oct 28, 2008, 7:01:45 PM

I want to be convinced why I should vote for McCain, not why I shouldn't vote for Obama. And vice versa.

I'm Canadian, but im really interested to know why people are voting for who they are.

I think it is highly unlikely Obama would ever try to oppress religion. It's been proven in history that this doesn't work, and I don't think either candidate is that stupid, or arrogant. People need faith in something, and there would be such a massive shitstorm that the white house would be burnt down by its own military. /exaggerating for the sake of a point.

I do think the Obama/Stalin comparison is a stretch, with their only common trait being Obama's interest in social systems.

No one has given me a convincing argument as to why a private health care system is better than a social one. And having experienced canadian universal healthcare, and never EVER paid a dime for anything but dental and optometry, I don't understand why one would want otherwise. I'd rather pay a small amount of money every year than a one time fee of 10,000 dollars for a life threatening medical condition. And that is to say nothing of social implications.

whats your opinion? craving mature discussion.