Posted by
Jay Noble on Friday, March 19, 2010 10:39:42 AM
Evil is in the saddle in Washington, D.C., and as usual contends its vices are virtues and its ways are good. Two hundred and twenty-three years after being handed a republic the people of the United States are soon to be reduced to the status of supplicants to the government which was supposed to be their servant. The agent of this change is the modern Democrat party, which through a combination of fanaticism and misplaced party loyalty is about to stab a dagger in the heart of the American system of government via health care "reform." Americans will cease to be citizens and become clients of an all powerful centralized state, ruled by an army of bureaucrats with the power of life and death of their lives.
Empires and great nations are seldom conquered but rather collapse from internal rot and financial misfeasance. We are witnessing this process now in the United States. Whatever the merits of reforming the health care system it is undeniable that doing so will incur massive costs in the trillions of dollars that we simply cannot afford and will lead in short order to national bankruptcy. Yet the sponsors of this obscenity seem to believe that our ability to tax, borrow, steal or manufacture money is endless. There are still checks in the Congressional checkbook and therefore there is money to spend!
Irrationality and denial of reality are in the DNA of leftist ideology. Never before in our history, however, have such a group been given the keys to power and the ability to enact their schemes into law. The American people have only themselves to blame for this situation, having been blinded or deceived into voting into office leftist true-believing fanatics who conceive that the first duty of a representative is to defy the opinions of the represented in pursue of the greater good. When crazies are elected it follows that crazy legislation will be enacted. Hence, health care "reform," to be followed by immigration "reform" and environmental regulation "reform." This is a cup which will be proffered to us again and again until the crazies are driven from power, hopefully before it is too late.
In Barack Obama we have the first president whose heart, whose values, whose every thought and impulse, is as alien to traditional American values and believes as the surface of the Moon is to the Earth. That Obama has socialist tendencies is a given; that he has the attitude of an authoritarian blatant. Contemptuous of opposition, impatient with questioning, heedless of truth and fact, Obama in is his heart of hearts is a tribal chieftain, now a democratically elected leader. As the new chief he wants to remake the tribe in his image and remove obstacles to implementing his reign. Thus we have the continuing concentration of power in the executive branch of government in Washington. What is going on now is just the beginning of the complete destruction of checks and balances in our structure of government, with the final objective of making Obama the final arbiter of political and economic life in the country.
But enough of all this. Are there any rams in the American flock of sheep? Who or whom will rise up and declare, "No, I will not yield; no, I will not obey; no, I will not permit my country to be made over into a banana republic." Obama and his allies are counting on the American public to have a short memory; to indulge in greed for government benefits; and for their anger to fade to apathy, indifference and finally acceptance of the fait accompli. Only time will tell if they are right.