But not only did Obamacare pass without a SINGLE Republican vote, without even so much as Republican INPUT in the conference meetings they were not invited to, but even now Obama is apparently going to allow a government shut down to avoid ANY compromise of even the slightest amount on this bill. Even now, even when the looming problems are quite clear, and already in progress, they are clinging to this horrible piece of legislation, as if some miracle, some Deus Ex Machina, is going to somehow convince the American people that it is a good idea.
But this will hit people directly. They will lose jobs, and coverage. Their premiums will soar. The Federal Budget will bloat even further.
Idiocies like Minimum Wage laws, unnecessary regulatory constraints on businesses, “Stimulus” spending and the like are abstractions most people don’t get. You have to be smarter than the propagandists to see through their lies, and most people aren’t. It is a source of embarrassment to me as an American that we even CONTEMPLATED putting Barack Obama in office, much less elected him twice. (Still, I look overseas, and see much MORE stupidity).
In this case, though, no amount of propaganda will get people their jobs back, their old coverage back, their old doctor back. No amount of propaganda will put the extra money back in the bank that struggling families are now having to pay extra every month to cover their premium increases. No amount of propaganda will explain how a doctors visit that used to be scheduled within the week, and work out to an hour of waiting, will now take a month, and occupy half a day.
There will be a clear Before and After. Obama treats people as abstractions. They don’t matter to him. It is a matter of indifference to him if Obamacare actually works for the stated purpose, if it furthers his aim of centralized control of everything. He has demonstrated a clear willingness to tell bald faced lies in support of Obamacare.
But he is lying in support not of a momentary policy initiative, not in support of something he can deny next week, but something which affects substantially all Americans in intimate and clear ways.
We may be past deserving freedom–at least enough of us to drag the rest of the nation down with them–but I think it is at least POSSIBLE that in the next couple years large numbers of people awake from their trances, and start seeing what is actually in front of them, instead of imagining what they were TOLD is in front of them.