This first appeared here. I would like to thank Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK
In October last year I included a book by B.K. Eakman in my monthly report, Bookviews.com, and recommended it, having perused it sufficiently to know it was quite extraordinary. “Agenda Games: How Today’s High-Stakes Political Combat Works” ($17.95, Midnight Whistler Publishers, softcover). As someone who has been a reviewer for over fifty years, I receive fifty or more books every month and I often have to return to a book to read it completely.
B.K. Eakman’s columns and speeches have appeared in The Washington Times, National Review, the Washington Post, Insight Magazine, Crisis Magazine, Vital Speeches, and many comparable publications. She has authored a number of books that include two award-winners, “Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education” and “Educating for the New World Order”, and an aptly named “Walking Targets: How Our Psychologized Classrooms are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks.”
An educator, researcher, and a Voice of America and Justice Department writer, she has a professional background that has culminated in an insightful and frightening analyses of the nation’s educational system that has produced several recent generations of Americans who are ill-equipped to understand what is happening to the nation—the steady infiltration of the system designed to create the kind of voters who elected and have reelected the nation’s first Marxist President.
In “Agenda Games”, she says that “today’s political contests bear no resemblance to the post World Wars I and II eras. Rather, there exists a calculated effort, by all sorts of demagogues, to sow dissention—to alienate, demoralize and, if possible, neutralize entire pools of voters, with all the negative energy such a scheme entails: coercion, ostracism, intimidation, loss of status or job, and outright censorship. In this scenario, the agenda becomes all-important; the individual recedes into expendability.”
The agenda “is nothing less than a replacement of the Founder’s vision of an independent, self-sufficient nation, based in individual resolve and grit, and minimal interference from government, with a super-State based in Old World notions of dependency, maximum government intrusion, crushing regulation and regimentation.”
If this sounds like America today, you’re right. This agenda has been advanced, knowingly and unknowingly, by the presidents of the past century, starting with the “progressive” Theodore Roosevelt with brief interludes of men like Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan who knew socialism when they saw it. The result has been government “entitlement” programs like Social Security and Medicare, the complete takeover of the nation’s educational system, and most recently the takeover of the nation’s healthcare system with Obamacare.
There was so much opposition to Obamacare it was only passed with a straight Democratic Party vote in Congress late night on Christmas Eve 2009. Senators were bribed and coerced into voting for it. Obama’s first term included a failed “stimulus” bill that wasted billions, oddball programs like “Cash for Clunkers”, and programs that wasted more billions on “renewable energy” companies—all heavy donors to Obama—most of which were bankrupt within a short time.
“Another red flag,” wrote Eakman, “is a president or high-level member of Congress who says something, with great conviction, to one audience, then turns around and declares the opposite to an interviewer weeks or months later (“political posturing”). Another bad sign is a town hall-style meeting which has been ‘packed’ in order to build a predetermined consensus.” This explains how Obama could tell people that he only wanted to raise taxes on “millionaires and billionaires” while all the time crafting legislation that has raised taxes on all Americans—especially the middle class whom he declared he was seeking to protect. Throughout his first term, Obama ignored or excused an unemployment rate that only rarely dipped below 8%.
“From pundits to porters, people from all walks of life,” wrote Eakman, “are noticing an uncomfortable shift in government priorities. From federal agency decrees, to Appeals Court verdicts to high-profile U.S. Supreme Court decisions an increasing contempt for the rights of average citizens is evident. Many of the issues in dispute are quite different from one another; and yet…there is an elusive similarity to all of them—primary among them being a demand for ‘compliance’. Failure or outright refusal to ‘comply’ comes with untenable fines and nonstop harassment by officials.”
This is the America in which we live today and, to understand why, the one book you need to read this year is “Agenda Games.”
The one election that may save Americans from complete submission to the agenda will occur in 2014. If the same men and women who imposed Obamacare on America and failed to heed the warnings of the Simpson-Bowles commission are reelected, we are all headed into a Marxist and economic abyss.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
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