Must read editorial

This is a must-read editorial by Charles Krauthammer. You cannot overestimate the scope of Obama’s plan to transform American culture. It may not happen in this term, or even a (gulp) second Obama term but if he gets his way, he will have put in place the foundations for a massive shift towards socialism in the near future. Once people get a taste for “free healthcare”, “free college”, etc paid for by “someone else”, it will be impossible to undo it. Clinton failed in his efforts because he was overseeing a time of relative prosperity whereas Obama has a ready made crisis and a slew of scapegoats (Bush, bankers, etc.). Clinton let his wife be his spokesperson and her shrill, smarmy manner made an easy target and rallying cry (Hillary-Care). Obama is his own spokesperson and has the media eating out of his hand, so the message that gets to the masses will be what he wants it to be and nothing else. Clinton didn’t have a coherent vision or ideology. Obama is the ultimate ideologue in a way that we haven’t seen since the Reagan administration. In many ways Obama is the mirror image of Reagan. He is an ideologue for socialism/liberalism in the same way that Reagan was for free-market capitalism. Reagan accomplished a lot in eight years because he had a clear, concise message that he stuck to. Obama does as well, and he has the advantage of inertia carrying us toward socialism and willing accomplices in the media.

When we look to the future, we should look to Europe to see where we are headed. The picture is not a pretty one. Once great nations are shells of themselves, with massive unemployment, a huge welfare state and an utter lack of ambition or national identity. Apathy and entitlement are the hallmarks of European socialism, and that is precisely where we are headed. Many European nations were world powers, but they have slid into near irrelevance on the world stage. Fortunately, America was there to fill in the power vacuum but when we fade away, who will step into the gap? China?

What worries me the most is that it may be too late to stop this.