Holding Our Collective Breath

'Health care', as it's currently being discussed, spawns from the same template as 'global warming'. It is not about health, and even less about care. It is a proxy war waged by the Left to advance a political philosophy that is essentially alien to our traditions. It is designed to discredit the notion of representative government, eliminate the middle class, and destroy the dollar. In the chaos that ensues, people will be expected to submit to the dictates of any man who displays the trappings of being in charge, even if that man is shown to harbor a deep inclination to exact revenge for slights, real or imagined, toward the very people who will be asked to submit to his onerous demands.

This was not something that was generally envisaged during our last election cycle. Increasing constituencies, however, are slowly coming to this conclusion despite the major media’s reluctance to dig below the surface.

In any case, much of what can now be comfortably termed ‘the Left’s agenda’ is expected to be in place by the time the next election cycle begins. This explains the frantic rush to get all these benchmarks passed now. The re-election of Barack Hussein Obama will certify the Left’s dominance. It will be celebrated as yet another milestone in the Left’s long march to power, similar to the victory the Right claimed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The difference between then and now is that ideology has now spilled beyond borders and blurred national boundaries.

Obviously there will be winners and losers. Pragmatists are already scrambling to position themselves on the winning side of history. Ideologues on both extremes are holding their breath. When all this is over, one of these will find themselves completely shut out of the political process for generations to come.