Video gaff reveals mindset of Obama supporters
Che’s lust for power had other ways of expressing itself besides murder. The contradiction between his passion for travel—a protest of sorts against constraints —and his impulse to become himself an enslaving state over others is poignant. In writing about Pedro Valdivia, the conquistador of Chile, Guevara reflected: “He belonged to that special class of men the species produces every so often, in whom a craving for limitless power is so extreme that any suffering to achieve it seems natural.”
He might have been describing himself. At every stage of his adult life, his megalomania manifested itself in the predatory urge to take over other people’s lives and property, and to abolish their free will. The urge to dispossess others of their property and to claim ownership of others’ territory was central to Guevara’s politics of raw power.
Perhaps Senator Obama has convinced his minions to believe that a similar “change we can believe in” is in the offing?