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They're Here! Democratic Takeover Like Scene From 'Poltergeist'

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By DON WALTON, Guest Columnist

Hernando Today

Published: November 6, 2008

On Election Night, I felt like the little girl staring at the television in the movie "Poltergeist." Little Carol Anne announces the arrival of scary specters boding pending disaster by uttering the movie's most memorable line: "They're here!"
Of course, the pending disaster I saw while staring at the television on Election Night had nothing to do with scary specters, but everything to do with scary socialists.
I've been convinced personally for a long time that the biblically predicted one world system of the end time would ultimately prove to be democratic socialism. Yet, I've often wondered when and how America would end up adopting European-style democracy. Well, I'm not wondering anymore.
With Barack Obama's election to the White House, Democrats firmly in control of both houses of Congress, Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader, our nation's courts packed with despotic judges and the nationalizing of our economy already begun by the lame duck Bush administration, I can safely say with little Carol Anne of Poltergeist fame, "They're here!"
That Democrats are socialists at heart is undeniable. When Obama slipped and divulged his desire to "spread the wealth" to "Joe the Plumber," he exposed the Marxism that forms the core of his and his party's political philosophy. The Democrat's idea of spreading the wealth was artfully articulated long ago by Karl Marx in his famous axiom, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Obama's idea of spreading the wealth is the very soul of Marxism.
Like the gay rights activists that their party unabashedly backs, Democrats are starting to come out of the closet. Up until recently, you could always count on Democrats to deny the obvious, namely, that they are socialists. Then came our nation's financial crisis, which Democrats immediately seized upon as an opportunity to belie our capitalist system. Suddenly and brazenly, Democrats are now raising their voices in unanimous chorus to lay the blame of our country's current credit crisis at the feet of failed capitalism.
A question that every American needs to ask is: What is the alternative to capitalism? The unmistakable answer is socialism. If the promised change of the Obama presidency is to lead us away from failed capitalism, then where will it lead us? Besides capitalism, the only other possible destination that a Democrat-controlled federal government could possibly be plotting for the future of our country is socialism.
Although done by stealth up until now, the Democratic Party has long desired to lead our nation into the bowels of socialism. Thanks to a politically advantageous economic meltdown during this year's presidential election, unprecedented low approval ratings for a Republican president who has unwarily started the ball rolling toward the nationalizing of our economy and a supposed mandate handed to them by the American electorate, Democrats are no longer socialists incognito, but beginning to brazenly crow about and strut toward their illusionary socialist utopia.
Obama is an enigma. He is without doubt the least known and least vetted politician to ever be elected to the Oval Office. In fact, one could argue that the media — whose job it is to vet presidential candidates for the sake of an informed electorate — deliberately kept the American people in the dark during this presidential election by purposely suppressing pertinent information about Obama, refusing to strenuously question him and blocking any serious investigations of him.
What was it that the Obama-friendly, mainstream media was afraid of discovering about him or averse to divulging to us? What secrets were kept under wraps or left undiscovered in the life of this man who is soon to wield all of the powers of the most powerful office on Earth? Am I the only one who is ill at ease about handing over such power to someone about whom we know so little?
It's not just all of the unanswered questions about Obama that make me apprehensive, but many of the answered ones and so many unasked ones. No one seems to know who Obama is, much less what he'll do or how he'll govern in the most powerful office in the world. Still, in spite of this fact, he received more votes from the American people than any other president in American history. To me, this is an extraordinary and inexplicable thing.
Only time will tell what an Obama presidency will prove to mean to this country. It may well be one of the final pieces to the prophetic puzzle; a piece that helps set the stage for the scripturally predicted end time scenario. Whereas Franklin Delano Roosevelt failed to replace our capitalist system with a socialist one, Obama appears poised to accomplish in one term what FDR couldn't accomplish in four. One thing is for sure, as Obama himself has avowed, "Change has come!"
There is no doubt in my mind that America will never be the same again. I'm just afraid that the change that has come is not what Obama promised or the American people voted for, but what the Bible predicts. If so, may God help us!

The Rev. Don Walton, founder and chairman of Time For Truth Ministries, can be contacted at don@timefortruth.org.

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