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gengwall -> Obama Channels Marx in "Bitter" Remarks (4/14/2008 1:40:19 PM)
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Analysts are beginning to draw parallels between Sen. Obama's remarks tying the bitternes of small town Pennsylvanians over job loss and their alledged, subsequent, reliance on religion (amongst other things) and Karl Marx's famous quote: "religion is the opiate of the masses."
USA Today (amongst many) has the original story on the remarks here:
Were Obama's words about folks in small towns controversial?
I find the remarks incredibly disturbing. Consider that the list includes a thinly veiled reference to homophobia and racism, ("antipathy to people who aren't like them, anti-immigrant sentiment"). We would all agree that those are social ills at best, and immoral, evil, predispositions at worst. It seems unlikely that he proposes a list, but only considers one of elements of the list to be the really "bad" thing, and the others good. It is far more likely that he sees ALL of the items on the list as something between social ill and immoral predisposition. In that case, a general mistrust of the state (which leads one to "cling" to gun ownership rights) is immoral; a fundimentalist Christian belief system is immoral; homophobia and racism are immoral (I agree there); American isolationism, both in regard to economics and immigration, is immoral. I frankly believe that Sen Obama views all of these issues in the same light, as unacceptable social ills that must be eradicated in order for people to see reality, and subsequently stand up and revolt. Karl Marx would have been proud.
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