Obama Administration: Fifth columnists and useful idiots
by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD February 25, 2015
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Never in the course of American history has so much harm been done to so many by so few.
A fifth column
is any group of people who undermine a larger group such as a nation
from within. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or
clandestine, using sabotage, disinformation or espionage conducted to
undermine a government or a country by agents or sympathizers, who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy.
A useful idiot
is someone who supports one side of an ideological debate, but who is
manipulated by the leaders of their faction or is unaware of the
ultimate agenda driving the ideology to which they subscribe.
The term has been used
in a similar sense as fellow travelers, communist sympathizers in
Western countries, who blindly supported Lenin, Stalin and the
totalitarian aims of the Soviet Union. The implication was that,
although the people in question naïvely thought of themselves as
standing for an altruistic socialist cause, they were actually held in
contempt and were being cynically used by the Communist Party of Soviet
Union for subversive activities in their native Western countries.
Today, useful idiot or "Obama groupie" largely refers to
naive, misinformed or willfully ignorant liberals, leftists or Islamist
sympathizers dominating academia, the media and Hollywood.
Together
with the assistance of fifth columnists, useful idiots and compliant
Republicans, Barack Obama is succeeding to fundamentally transform the
United States of America and reshape our position in the world.
Obama's
fundamental transformation is simply a euphemism for the age-old
revolutionary goal of undermining the existing order by fostering and
exploiting uncertainty and instability.
The
foreign policy of the Obama Administration has been one punctuated by
the withdrawal of American leadership from the global stage ("leading
from behind"); regime change in secular Egypt, Syria and Libya in favor
of Islamic extremism; supporting Iran over Israel and passivity in the
face of Russian and Chinese expansionism; all of which contributes to
instability and the ultimate transformation of the existing world order
at the expense of western democracy.
Obama's
domestic agenda of economic and social instability has included the
massive growth of government and national debt; policies that increase
regulation and lessen personal liberty; greater racial and ethnic
divisiveness; scorn for American values and traditions and an illegal
immigration strategy meant to permanently change the demographics of the
American population; all of which ostensibly calculated to produce a de
facto oppressive one-party state.
It
is not just Obama's leftist and Islamic personal history or that he
surrounds himself with people of similar beliefs, but it has been his
actions in office that lead many American to conclude that the Obama
Administration, seemingly infiltrated by fifth columnists and buttressed
by useful idiots, pursues policies that facilitate rather than oppose
the aims of our enemies.
More
shocking, however, is the extent by which members of Congress and the
media have shielded Obama and his acolytes from any serious scrutiny,
demanded any meaningful accountability or mounted any sustained
opposition.
Those
who raise legitimate questions or identify potential wrongdoing are
presumed racist or mentally unbalanced misfits, in a situation where the
truth is casually sacrificed by Democrats and Republicans alike in
order to preserve a corrupt political status quo, as Obama drives the
country off the cliff.
Similar to the Soviet Union or an Islamic state, the Obama Administration need not fear
that any of its agencies will do anything about the lies or misconduct.
Nor need it fear that there will be objections from the elected
representatives of the people. Nor need it fear that the media will
raise any but polite questions.
Not a day goes by when I don't shake my head in disbelief.
We are indeed transformed.
Lawrence
Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US
Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is
the author of "Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution ". He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
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