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"Once a country goes ObamaCare it never goes back!"

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On ObamaCare, The Law of the Land, and One Man, One Vote, Once

During the Cold War that was a favorite refrain of the Left. Oh, wait. What does that say? ObamaCare?! Once a country goes ObamaCare it never goes back? How did that get there? Is the above a typo? Does the TPC spellcheck automatically spell communism 'ObamaCare?' Odd that, eh? The above should read: Once a country goes Communist it never goes back. Communist. Communist. Communist. Not ObamaCare. Sorry about that. Don't want to scare anybody. Must be a glitch.

During the Cold War this idea of Communism as something so powerful that nothing could stop it or turn it back was the much touted lie of the Left. And for a while it seemed frighteningly true. Then of course came Ronald Reagan and one of the first things he did was destroy that myth by invading Grenada and liberating it from communism. It also shattered the lie and was the very beginning of the end of the Soviet influence. Today, it's significance is lost on those not adults at the time.

But those were the heady days of Ronald Reagan, a man whom this particular staff member of the Karl Marx Treatment Center dearly misses. These days the Left are trotting out a new line, a new lie, to give the impression that dictatorship is an unbeatable power unto itself and can never be beaten back. "ObamaCare is the law of the land."

What this really means in civilized pre-prog english is: One man, One vote, Once.

Just as a country could vote itself into the dictatorship of the proletariat and never, ever get the chance to vote itself back out and thus "never go back" as the communists would say, so too the communists have been able to use the congress to vote for what is, I hate to break this to the Republican Party, in all respects nothing but a dictatorship over a certain aspect of the country. The congress has been very generous throughout the years in creating what are in reality compartmentalized dictatorships. The Patient Protection and Affordability Act is in large measure the creation of a delimited grant of total power whose amelioration can only be ameliorated by the supplication and appeals to the better nature of he who wields the HHS. Or the ear of the President.

This is so over the top ugly it's laughable. Like overly acted melodramatic villainy in a Grade B movie. Like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They think they're starring in a class production like James Bond but actually they're the unintended comedy relief in the political equivalent of an Ed Wood production. The nation's unintended comedy relief is now overly emoting IT'S THE LAW OF THE LAND ONE MAN, ONE VOTE, ONCE that their writers stole from the earlier bomb of bygone days when farcical Grade B Eastern European puppet parliaments voted themselves into slavery.

Just as a quicky reminder on 'It's the law of the land': Prohibition was the law of the land. Why, it was so much the law of the land it wasn't just legislation. It was an amendment to the Constitution. Law of the Land simply doesn't get more written-in-stone law-of-the-landish, in a Covenant with God-like written-in-the-unbreakable-stone-of-the-ages-for-all-time than that. In a Constitutional and legislative sense. And yet, it is no more.

Prohibition wasn't governance so much as it was a dictate from on high. Coincidentally, it was one of the Progressive movements first gifts from them to the American people. And that was just one of their more simple dictates.

The congress has voted for and created a slice of dictatorship and hey, the good old One man! One vote! Once! works for the communists. Why not us? Once a country goes communist it never goes back. Er, I mean ObamaCare. Once a country goes ObamaCare it never goes back!

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Yes and in all their glorious utopian aspirations, instillation of emotional gradients creates the need, totalitarianism remains quietly hidden within.


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Image Consider this comrades:

In certain basic respects - a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom - fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard.

We effectively have a single party and leader in his excellency, Barack the Liar and his Democratic National Socialist Party.

We have his Obamastasi with his IRS oppressors and NSA surveillance state.

And who could argue that the National Socialist left of these days has any interest in ‘cultural and intellectual freedom'.

But liberty will win out over the Evil of collectivism in the end – it always does and it always will.

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Atlas Shrugged? Hahahaha What a loser that Ayn Rand turned out to be . . . Predictions of tyranny if the people choose to follow a glorious leader like Barack Hussein Obama. Ayn Rand was funny. Obamacare, it's the law of the King, we must obey.


Don't mock Dear Leader. He is only looking out for us. Comrade Barry knows what is best for us.

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Comrade Šterpin wrote:Image Consider this comrades:


But liberty will win out over the Evil of collectivism in the end – it always does and it always will.
It all comes down to how large the body count will be; it's generally directly proportional to how far into the game the tyranny is put down.


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I'll voice some concerns I haven't seen voiced. As a resident libertarian leaning, Ron Paulish freak, the republicans are scaring me. They should be in full offensive mode right now pushing for full repeal and replace with sensible reform, as in involving the consumer in the payment cycle. Instead I see a whole lot of push for delay of the mandate and then some ambiguous legislation allowing people to keep the canceled plans, neither of which address the underlying issues at all. This is like trying to treat symptoms of cancer but not the cancer. What am I missing? Couple this with Christie being anointed the next presidential nominee and I'm convinced, now more than ever, that the establishment republican party is just as statist as the democratic party and even plays a willing foil when need be.

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[img]images/clipart/Prog_Off.gif[/img] Comrade INGSOC I made a spoof reference to Atlas Shrugged a bit ago, but the truth of the matter, when you see Republicans tying to not rock the boat too much, and think by doing this "negotiating" they will regain control of the country is ridiculous, if not bordering insanity. What we really see happening is complicity which means more of the same. Do Republicans really believe they will see liberals (or should I say Progs) come over to our point of view by appeasing and capitulating over and over? I see the Republicans as a Neville Chamberlain right now. You could say I am a conservative or a tea party conservative more specifically, but I do not see that 3rd party on too many ballots. We're screwed as long as guys like McCain, McConnell, et al continue to hold sway in the party. A Ted Cruz, a Rand Paul, a Mike Lee, someone needs to take the wheel and steer this boat in a different direction. It's a big boat and a 180' turn can take an awful long time. Heck, I'd be happy right now with a 20' turn.

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Comrade Šterpin wrote:Image Consider this comrades:

In certain basic respects - a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom - fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard.

[highlight=#ffff00]We effectively have a single party and leader in his excellency, Barack the Liar and his Democratic National Socialist Party.

We have his Obamastasi with his IRS oppressors and NSA surveillance state.[/highlight]

And who could argue that the National Socialist left of these days has any interest in ‘cultural and intellectual freedom'.

But liberty will win out over the Evil of collectivism in the end – it always does and it always will.

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So help me Marx, this is a real e-mail I received from a very long time "friend" who has finally admitted he's been hoping Obama would assert his authority and "clean up the mess made by conservatives". The e-mail is in response to an article I sent him regarding the FCC's recent interest in evaluating the "political attitudes" of the media. Look at the last three words. So help me, this is real:

I wish to hell the FCC would monitor these nut job right wing media outlets like Fox and ultimately lift their licenses for the venom and misinformation they spew over the airwaves. They are no different than the worst Russian propaganda. GET RID OF THEM NOW! Long live OBAMA!

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Captain Craptek it's a disease. It really is.

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I appriciate the sentiment. I agree completely with one major distinction. I don't think the Republican Party is appeasing the democrats at all. Capitulating? Of course.

If they are playing a game of appeasement it is with their base. These token efforts are more of an attempt to keep the dogs at bay and the rank and file in a confused stupor than they are an effort to oppose or obstruct our descent into a socialist malaise.

See Virginia for exhibit 'A'.

The establishment are corporatists and by extension socialists/statists. That is the underlying truth.

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Red Walrus wrote:Captain Craptek it's a disease. It really is.
Image No, alas, if it were a disease there might be a cure. I'm afraid it's fallen human nature, always looking for a Strong Man, an idol that will serve as a proxy destroyer, one that will excuse or even glorify the basest human impulses ... and of course will both protect and lend reflected glory to the worshiper. Somehow, the idol-worshiper never notices that he may be the next victim of the destruction.

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As the people with a strong work ethic, faith, family values slowly erode so grows the give me state. Could you imagine your parents relying on the government for food and healthcare decisions, I cant. It really is sad to see the mentality of those like Captain's "buddy" chanting long live Obama. I hope the guy lives to be 100, but whatever happened to the good old I will make it myself, I will supply my family what it needs, I will not rely on anyone else for my own economic and social destiny? It really makes me ill to see a Republican party acting more and more like Statists and the "mental disorder" of progressive Democrats taking the country straight to hell.

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I have a good friend just like Crapteks. He is a contractor at Fort Knox and he's a really bright person but there is fear in his politics.

Before I go further I want to be clear that this guy is a good dude and responsible in his daily life. The following is to illustrate the problems we face in perception, the problems the demagogue encourages and enhances.

I've known this guy for nearly 25 years and consider him one of my closest friends. He came from a family where dad retired from the union early and it was acceptable to sleep in on the weekends until 2:00 in the afternoon.

I come from a family where my dad started patching potholes on the weekends when I was a baby and raised tobacco for supplemental income for his fledgling business.

Our business has become successful by any standard but we live it and always have. There was never any sleeping in and there was always something to be done. You don't just go home at 5:00 on Friday and forget the worries of the world or dwell on your personal finances and budget. It is all encompassing.

This is where the great disconnect lies and the poisonous rhetoric of leftists with "you didn't build that!", "fair share", "$250,000 jet owners" and any other class warfare platitude is so damaging. It gives these people with no concept for how the private sector works an excuse to be immoral and an excuse to use cognitive dissonance when the conversation becomes fact based and serious.

Did I mention my friend's wife works for a non-profit? Not that working for a non-profit is bad but it is worn as a badge in this case as well. There is a warped sense that even though the private sector literally pays for everything they have and makes their career possible, that the private sector is the enemy that wants to take it away. The rest of their politics are shaped by this.

In a recent email exchange when my buddy started boiling over about furloughs and the people he knew who were effected by the government shutdown it was in a contextual vacuum. I could sense that he thought he had me cornered as his words projected a soaring righteousness. It was then that I realized how gigantic the gulf in perception and reality was between us.

For me this was a startling window into how insulated his world was from the world I live in and how vastly different the mechanics are. The private sector is a world of risk and competition that serves society with innovation, efficiency and invention. If the tide goes out and you're not prepared, you are washed away. There are no congressmen passing bills to make sure you get back-pay when the debt ceiling crisis is inevitably over. There is no too big to fail. Our world is a world without a net. We understand the risks and we work hard. By contrast his world is something else entirely.

I wrote back and welcomed he and his cohort to 2008. I reminded him that the economic crisis was real and the nightly news statistics were not some teabagger fabrication. I relayed my personal experiences laying people off, having banks call in collateralized notes, customers and tenants going out of business, buyers evaporating and sleepless nights all with no warning.

His response was to abandon his line of attack with something like "well we all have sob stories, but..."

There are two Americas but it is not the "poor and the rich". It is the people who understand capitalism and the nature of wealth and those who don't.

As a party to this thought; the entitled intellectual has always been the greatest threat to capitalism. Not because of capitalism's failures but because capitalism is so successful that it marginalizes their impact on society. Free markets to not care about book smarts, where your degree came from, who you're friends with or theory in general. This severely wounds the ego and manifests collective bitterness in their ranks.

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INGSOC wrote:There are two Americas but it is not the "poor and the rich". It is the people who understand the capitalism and the nature of wealth and those who don't.
On this very topic a future KMTC column titled 'The Cats and Dogs Have Taken Over The House of Civilization' has been slowly grinding it's way through committee. When it will get chopped with it's final chop is dependent on further government funding.


 
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