Posted by
Reasonsjester on Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:22:48 PM
The Democrats have pursued their agenda in heavy-handed fashion since
Obama took office in the false belief that they have received a mandate
from the American people to fundamentally transform this country. The
flaw in the Democrats' reasoning is that they merely defeated the
Republicans, they have not defeated the American people.
Let us be clear. The Republicans are not standing in the way of the
Democrats' agenda. The Republicans couldn't organize an ice cream
social let alone a nationwide resistance movement. The taxpayers are
simply tired of being taken for a ride by Democrats who cannot fulfill
their promises of the past, let alone their grandiose promises of the
future.
The New Deal, The War on Poverty, The Great Society, all cast in
utopian language, have driven our nation further into debt and the poor
further into indignity and dependency. If the progressives would only
give the market a chance to operate, with true competition for
insurance companies extending across state lines, they would see costs
go down. If the government would cut taxes across the board, including
taxes on health insurance, employment would go up, and the twelve
million or so who want insurance but can't afford it would have a
better chance to obtain it.
But it is so obvious that you cannot miss it that progressives have
never cared about costs; they only care about their utopian vision and
the means of reaching it of complete control of government, economy,
and society. The Democrats' progressive constituents do not see how
they are playing right into the statists' hands, and trading one of the
best economic and political systems in the world for a fabricated dream
inculcated in their minds since the earliest days of their youth.
Progressives simply do not understand why all Americans do not share
their beautiful vision of the future, and why everyone will not unite
with them to achieve it. Anyone who wants to work for himself (or
herself) and only to support his family must be evil, selfish and
greedy. Anyone who does not want to participate must be lazy, ignorant,
and apathetic. Anyone who actually opposes them must be an extremist,
filled with hate, and indoctrinated by corporate-controlled talk radio
hosts.
The progressive base needs to come out of denial and recognize that the
ones who are out in full force against the statists are the same ones
who have foot the bill for the government's false promises of the past.
Those opposed to them are people who work real jobs and want simply to
keep nearly all their money and to be left alone by the state. But
unfortunately many progressives cannot remove themselves from their
deep-seated illusions and thus will not leave their fellow Americans
alone; and for that they are now going to see how "astro-turfed" the
anger of the American people really is.
While progressives may not understand why the Democrats do not force
through their ambitious agenda, since they have supposedly received a
"mandate" by election, the Democrat leadership knows how dangerous it
is to further rouse the American people opposed to them. The Democrats
know they have Republicans beat, or essentially complicit in their
designs; but they know also that if they press their demands on
Americans too strongly, they will unleash a tempest that may very well
sweep all of them out of power.
With the Congress and the White House controlled by radicals, and the
Supreme Court silent on our rights' daily usurpation, the American
people are now the final check on statism. Let there be no doubt;
without our opposition the government would fully and unquestionably
opt for a totalitarian government that controls every aspect of our
lives. The years under Obama will thus be our last stand against
totalitarian government. The future of our nation and our children is
in our hands.