Mark Steyn vastly underestimates the mission
He thinks it’s about making the U.S. a permanently left-of-center country.
In the last gasping bits of rationality left to her, that might be what Nancy Pelosi thinks.
But Obama is a radical anti-American. He wants to reduce the place to a third-world country via the post-industrial, post-service industry, post-sovereignty pathways. He understands that health care isn’t health care, but does not see it, as Mark Steyn suggests, as just the next stage of social-democratic government. Obama understands it as a mountain slide that will come down on a country that he is intentionally bankrupting. He hasn’t been trying to stimulate the economy. He’s doing all that he can to break it. He wants America broken, and he had to fool a lot of fools to get in a position to do that. And he’s still fooling them.
Obama is not worried that the American economy is slow to recover; he’s worried that it will recover. And he is doing everything conceivable to see that it doesn’t. Adding an unaffordable entitlement to already bankrupt entitlements; making energy unaffordable; raising taxes; harassing business; growing government while the economy shrinks; shrinking the economy while government grows; and most important of all, draining the wealth out of the middle class. Squeezing the last savings and remaining asset value out of them. He has the public employee unions living large in lean times, and their mission, from his point of view, is to scavenge whatever meat remains from the bones. It’s not for nothing that he has his buddy Andy Stern over to the White House so often.
Even the face value meaning of his actions is missed because it cannot be grasped through the normative terms of American politics. But all of it is right there in plain sight. He is using the Presidency and the Congress to wage war against America. That is the meaning of everything that is right there in front of everyone. Of all the people I know only my friend the rogue philosopher Billy Beck understands the full meaning of government force used at this magnitude. And even he, with decades of study of Soviet totalitarianism at close hand for reference, is shocked at the pace of this war on America.
Nancy Pelosi might have a white wine and brie vision of European socialism for America. Barack Obama has the vision of Cuban socialism, with a lot less America in America than there is Cuba in Cuba. Barack Obama has the vision of Jeremiah Wright, and Obama is more radical than Wright. If you don’t know by now that everything Barack Obama has told the American people, and even his own party in the Congress, is a lie, you haven’t been paying attention. I’m not talking about everyday political lying; I’m talking about ontological lies.
We’ve seen this before, but not here, not like this.