Let me answer your questions, dragonwriter. First of all, I am aware than Engles was involved, but it was Karl Marx who slaved over this document and ideology

Let me answer your questions, dragonwriter. First of all, I am aware than Engles was involved, but it was Karl Marx who slaved over this document and ideology to the detriment and devastation of his wife and children. It was Marx who was the self-centered megalomaniac behind this concept, and he who pictured a future where people would worship him as a god. Engles's most important contribution was really money. 1. As I said, Obama has used the state to block the development of domestic energy over vast amounts of land. Furthermore, Obama upholds the notion of public domain, which means our property rights are subject to the whims of the state. How does this NOT fit? Just because the state hasn't confiscated all land yet doesn't mean this shouldn't be a concern and a type of things to come. 2. I never said Obama introduced the progressive tax in America. I said he fully supports it and has expanded it. His obsession with taxing the rich is well documented. I don't believe Marx was the original inventor of all of his ideas either. Does a pre-existing art doctrine prevent us from pointing to the state of our union today and accurately declaring what is wrong with it? 3. Confiscating wealth via a death tax, regardless to what extreme you do it to, places us directly on the path of Marxism, does it not? How can you claim that the federal government's confiscation of up to 45% of your wealth upon your death isn't just slightly under halfway there when it comes to Marx's goal? If I only forcibly molested you half way, would you feel as if it hadn't happened at all? 4. You have obviously never worked abroad. The federal government absolutely rapes you in taxes, especially if you are a software engineer, successful sales person, or an executive and make more than the standard overseas deduction. Furthermore, have you ever lived overseas and held money in a financial institution? Obama got the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act passed in 2010, which gives the federal government the ability to order foreign financial institutions to provide information to the IRS regarding Americans' offshore holdings. Then, if they feel like it, the federal government can confiscate your off-shore property. Fits quite nicely into number 4, really. 5. Yes, number five was going on before Obama. I never said it wasn't. However, Obama embraces this centralization and accelerated it via Dodd-Frank, which drastically increased the federal government's control over financial firms; as I already mentioned. 6. Regarding communications, Obama wants to revive the "fairness doctrine." He upped the Patriot Act's spying on American citizens for the last 6 years. He has expressed hostility towards free speech on numerous occasions. Regarding transportation, Cap & Trade. He also keeps trying to push America into the government's high-speed rail system. He keeps trying to compel Americans into "green transportation" by attempting to get laws passed that outlaw things like coal, pipelines, domestic energy production, etc. Has he centralized it yet? No. But, I don't believe those things happen overnight. They are slowly introduced in order to minimize backlash. Is that what Obama is doing and are we on that path? I believe so. 7. Obama has made every attempt to inject the federal government into the health care industry, housing industry, auto industry, and energy industry. Again, he has us on the path. 8. What do you think Obama's ramping up of federal employees in the IRS, Americorps (or "corpse," if you're Obama), and his Serve America Act are? 9. Obama used the Department of Housing and Urban Development to relocate people in order to make America more evenly distributed, racially speaking. Additionally, Obama's cap & trade would severely limit our ability to commute. This has a very high potential for forcing people to live in urban hubs. 10. The purpose of this point in Marx's Communist Manifesto was to control what people think. Don't you believe that is what Common Core is all about? In his State of the Union Address in 2012, Obama called for more funds and new federal education programs, and talked about mandatory federal schooling for everyone under 18. Also, what purpose does Obama have for wanting to give Associate degrees away for free? Did that answer your questions? In conclusion, I never said that Obama implemented all of the Marxist problems we now have. I simply said, and proved, that he supports Marxist ideals. Just because we have had other Marxists in our country's leadership before now doesn't negate the fact that Obama is indeed a Marxist. This isn't a talking-point. It is simply a fact.