If the Russians see what's going on here, why don't we?

Pravda (remember them? the communist party newspaper that eventually went on to have a ridiculously overpriced cowhide bag named approximately after it) has correctly identified, in its lede sentence of a current editorial, what's going on with our current administration (I almost said "totalitarian regime").

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

There's just enough weird pro-Russian anti-western propagandaist nonsense in the article to convince me that Karl Rove didn't somehow land a job as an intern for the newspaper, like the following bit:

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

But it goes on from there, with a forthright directness of speaking which would be considered gauche in American society, to judge (despite the left's insistence that no one has the right to judge anyone about anything) our current trajectory and find in it a tragedy unfolding.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

It doesn't seem the former communists harbor any doubts about the tipping point for our own descent into communism.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

In 1984 anyone who supported a Pravda editorial over the US government would also have had to be wearing a Free Tibet t-shirt and a Mondale/Ferraro '84 pin. It's astonishing that a mere 25 years on, we've reached the depths that we have.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

Yeah, I noticed that too, and yet it seems from all the non-existent outrage over this blatantly fascistic lurch toward statism that I and Pravda are the only ones who've noticed.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

And they'd be right to laugh, to watch the world superpower suffer such obvious and self-inflicted and avoidable damage on itself.

BHO will prove to be our collective damnation.