POLITICS: OBAMA MANIA

My cousin emailed me an article from the Drudge Report about Mr. Obama and ABC news. It seems that ABC is giving the White House a big open forum to present their plan for a nationalized health care system. It’s quite a propaganda coup for the president. He gets to push his plan with no opposition to whoever is bored enough to watch a couple hours of news one night next week. I would say that at least five or six million people will tune in for the festivities. Most of those millions are people who already agree with the president and are quite happy to be with him on the road to unbridled socialism. Some of the opposition will watch to try and get material for arguments against his plans.

The socialist steamroller keeps moving along as the president constantly denies its existence. GM gets taken over, to a large degree, by the government and Mr. Obama says that’s not really what is happening. Large financial institutions become even more entwined with the government through bailouts. Mr. Obama says it is strictly temporary and it’s only a kind of loan. Meanwhile the government, and one must assume that the White House has at least some input in governance, sees to the firing of executives, pushes for pay caps in a multitude of businesses and rolls out executive orders and proposes legislation putting its big hands into every part of the American economy. If that isn’t a move towards socialism then I’d like for Mr. Obama to truthfully tell us what the heck he’s doing. Meanwhile his party is bolstered by weak-kneed Republicans who don’t have enough grounding in basic principles to raise any cry of objection. They are, as always, more concerned with their next election than the saving of the Constitution and their country.

Some grassroots movements are underway but they can’t seem to slow down the juggernaut that Mr. Obama has under his control. As I talk to people in my rather limited circle of family and friends I can’t seem to find anyone who likes what is happening, even though a goodly number of those people voted for the president. But there must be plenty of people who do support the administration and its policies. There is no question in my mind about how far this super-liberal, socialist nut case will go in pushing his agenda. My small voice is raised periodically when I write letters to our inadequate senators and lone congressman. I also put up the occasional blog message and, once in a great while, a letter to the editor of our local newspaper. We need more voices. Maybe a recall movement against the president and a bunch of other politicians would be a good idea. The problem we face is complacency. The average American is too wrapped up in mindless activities and self-centered hedonism to be involved in the political process. So my rant is starting to fizzle as I contemplate the magnitude of the task of stopping the trends in government.

Someday, when one of my grandchildren asks about some point of ancient history that happened in 2009, the year that saw socialism caustically erase the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I’ll try to explain how things happened and hopefully instill in them a revolutionary fervor, which they will need to escape the binding webs that are being woven today.

Have a fine day.