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October 28, 2008
Exclusive: Why Obama’s Young ‘Yes, We Can, Can, Can’ Disciples Should Disturb You
As a freethinker, I wonder what Americans see, when they watch young American subjects – many of them children – chanting Obama’s non-specific words over, and over again, on YouTube. Personally, I’m disturbed for them and disturbed for America.
These singsong rituals, to be clear, are important to examine, because they give one a taste of how the “Family of Change” operates.
In one video, you’ll see liberal Californian guardians surrounding their children, with approving looks, as they sing Obamaholic songs on a Sunday. The subjects are wearing t-shirts for their leader as they chant, “Yes, we can, can, can.” New Age musicians utilize their gifts too, to create a spiritual atmosphere for the cathartic happening.
There’s a fine line between propaganda and indoctrination. Team Obama’s propaganda machine, for example, also uses their mysterious “body of knowledge” (with the help of campaigning reporters) to persuade the masses that “change” is on the way. It’s very 1984. Music is a tool, and so, apparently, is every “groomable” Californian child.
The indoctrination process kicks in when the knowledge is explicitly designed to inculcate the Party’s “change” values. In extreme cases, the “body of knowledge” centers on changing children’s minds without their knowledge. College students are soft targets too. This is thought reform. Still, isn’t mommy proud when Junior praises The One? Don’t her eyes just light up? (“Good little boy, good.” “Mommy likes it when precious obeys.”)
I hear defensive liberals asking, “But aren’t all political parties using the same strategies as Team Obama?” No. And, since when do “two wrongs” make a right?
While one can point to concerns within, say, Nader’s green plans, Hillary Clinton’s old campaign, and John McCain’s, the many ways in which the elite media enables The One to sell his gospel creates a highly toxic faith environment through saturation coverage.
In this context, some debates can run, but the communication tends be one-sided when so-called watchdog organs filter information. Seriously. Thus, the media tells you how to interpret the debates viewers watch, and how to think. Experts claim that Obama wins. Unscientific polls (stacked with liberals) reinforce groupthink. In many cases, however, only limited exchange occurs. And, in extreme cases, the communication is one-sided. Again, this is media indoctrination, in black and white.
“Yes, we can, can, can. Yes, we can, can, can.” In Cults in Our Midst, the late Margaret Thaler Singer, a leading cult expert, made this excellent point (p. 18):
Many former cult members report that certain classes they took late in high school and early in college contributed greatly to their bewilderment. They commonly describe classes, teachers, and experiences that they felt destabilized their views of the world, leaving them frightened by the complexity of making seemingly endless decisions. Feeling lost and alone, they felt a need to find affiliation and some simple ways to make their lives work.
A further concern arises when middle school pupils march in paramilitary gear, and make “positive prophecies” about their futures for The One. In some toxic faith environments, Obama is the “alpha” (beginning) and the “omega” (end). In short, he is like a god.
Again, I refer you to visual evidence. See the students march. See them praise The One.
Singer’s groundbreaking text talks too about the power to change people through propaganda, indoctrination, and thought reform:
Propaganda/Breadth of learning: Targets large political masses to make them believe a specific view or circumstance is good.
Indoctrination/Breadth of Learning: Stresses narrow learning for a specific goal: to become something or to train for performance of duties.
Thought Reform/Breath of Learning: Individualized target; hidden agenda (you will be changed one step at time to become deployable to serve the leaders).
But, what happens when the subjects are children? In black, welfare-majority voting districts, where fatherless children hunger for male role models, Obama is in a very powerful position (and I know he knows it). Is he setting kids up to sink?
Revealing too is Obama’s 20-year membership with the cultic Trinity United Church, a haven for Leftwing peanuts, liberal walnuts, and far-Left cashew nuts. After years of whitewashing the obvious, the elite media is still downplaying the elephant question. “Is he a black racist?”
In many ways, Team Obama is “changing” children through new mediums.
Healthy kids don’t worship leaders. In the end, Obama can take himself out of Trinity United, but will he take Trinity United out of his Orwellian campaign?
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ben-Peter Terpstra, an Australian-European satirist, is a contributor to a number of websites, from On Line Opinion (Australia's e-journal of social and political debate) to American Thinker. His pieces are also posted on his blog, Pizza Trays and Beer Bottles.
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