Then and Now and Then

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

"When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
- Adolph Hitler

"Young men are embarrassed by having inherited their father... See More’s opinions. I have often said that the use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. I do not say that with the least disrespect for the fathers; but every man who is old enough to have a son in college is old enough to have become very seriously immersed in some particular business and is almost certain to have caught the point of view of that particular business. And it is very useful to his son to be taken out of that narrow circle, conducted to some high place where he may see the general map of the world and of the interests of mankind, and there shown how big the world is and how much of it his father may happen to have forgotten. It would be worth while for men, middle-aged and old, to detach them selves more frequently from the things that command their daily attention and to think of the sweeping tides of humanity."
-Woodrow Wilson

Two Men, Two different approaches, Same Goal. Win the Hearts and minds of the masses by starting with the young. Every tyrannical regime in history has used this technique in one form or another. The left will tell you Children singing and chanting Obama songs, and pledging to be Obama Scholars is harmless? Where were the Bush songs of praise? Have school children ever sang songs in school about a specific sitting President?

This is not a great man who did great things, he's a man who still can't find a solution to plug a hole and keeps blaming Bush for every major problem. A man who has failed to deliver one promise after another and who is now facing a population that is turning on him, yet there are some still urging children to chant praise. Why? I'm sorry but before I chant praise for somebody they had better have split the Red Sea, or at least done something that will shape history in a positive way. President Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize, for doing NOTHING!!!! They even said it was for what he will do. Can you imagine? Hitler and Mussolini were great men back in the day, Time Magazine Men of year. Can you imagine if they would have given Hitler a peace prize, for the good he was going to do? Opps! What message does this send the youth? Don't worry, you can have your award now, because you're going to be great! later!!!

I know I just graduated, and I've only been on the job for a few weeks but can I have a huge bonus now, because I'm going to rock in the future.

Cheers,

Mike