It's a Braindead New World, or Buddy, can you spare a Soma?

You remember those Tea Party rallies? According to the media, hardly anyone showed up, and those that did were mostly racist kooks, "right wingnuts," Klan types prone to violence. So the media basically stayed away, and the op-ed pieces comments were full of what Tea Partiers "probably" said, "probably" wanted, "probably" intended. Conservatives were vilified, and although the public gave the Republicans victories in the midterm Congressional elections, they were vilified and marginalized.

That's not the case with the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests. Or not quite. Here, the media seems to be doing its best to present OWS as a well-organized movement with a rational, well-organized agenda to bring down corruption on Wall Street. It is not that.

In Atlanta, the OWS branch is called "Occupy Atlanta." They have adopted a logo: the raised clenched fist of solidarity on a background similar to the War Flagof the Japanese Imperial Army , surrounded by the olive branch. The fist has been a symbol of the SDS, the Black Panthers, the United States Communist Party, and the French and Soviet revolutions.  Occupy Atlanta's demands, which you may read here, are classical Marxist rhetoric.

The book, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was published in 1932, and posited the world as it might be in 2540 A.D. The citizens, or perhaps inmates is a better term, are given "Soma" to keep their minds dull enough to stomach living in such a world, and rights are sternly delegated according to class status.  Brave New World, if you haven't read it lately, is a frightening commentary on what the future might be if we do not take care.

The "progressives," the liberals and the Democrats are bringing America perilously close to the Brave New World in a much shorter time. Sadly, America's socialist "progressives" don't seem to have a clue how a republic or a democracy works, or even socialism for that matter. At a recent "Occupy Atlanta" meeting, Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights hero, sought an opportunity to address the crowd. He never got the chance; you should watch the video, because you won't believe it. 

It's not a Brave New World looming before us, it's a Braindead New World.  Rational thought seems to have little place in the world of the "progressive." If we allow this nonsense to gain political momentum, we will all be saying, "Buddy, can you spare a Soma?"