Thursday, August 13, 2009
Democracy is Dead -- Long Live ObamaCare
I have read a lot of articles and blogs talking about Obama's horrible and oppressive health care bill. People (including me) are upset because they will lose their freedom and they will be taxed into oblivion. As evil as those issues are, they are not really the point.
The real point is that ObamaCare is a complete and irreversible destruction of the very foundation of America. Our founding fathers created this county to be free. They did not want their government controlling every aspect of their lives. Paradoxically, we now seem to be begging for it. Please, Uncle Sam, give me a job, give me a home, give me health care, tell me how to raise my kids, force me to wear a seatbelt, feed me.
The point of vigorously opposing ObamaCare is not the cost, rationing, or even the euthanasia that will inevitably occur. The point is that allowing your government that final control over your existence will destroy the remnants of the already tattered foundation of democracy itself.
When your government takes your income and distributes it at its whims, democracy no longer exists. Tyranny takes its place. It is tyranny when your government decides whether or not you live or die. It is tyranny when your politicions are so in lockstep with each other that elections become irrelevant. It is tyranny when your government is so corrupt that it lives under a different set of rules than its citizenry. Merely desiring complete control over your life and death is itself tyranny.
If ObamaCare passes, democracy itself is dead. Although, it might be dead already.
The real point is that ObamaCare is a complete and irreversible destruction of the very foundation of America. Our founding fathers created this county to be free. They did not want their government controlling every aspect of their lives. Paradoxically, we now seem to be begging for it. Please, Uncle Sam, give me a job, give me a home, give me health care, tell me how to raise my kids, force me to wear a seatbelt, feed me.
The point of vigorously opposing ObamaCare is not the cost, rationing, or even the euthanasia that will inevitably occur. The point is that allowing your government that final control over your existence will destroy the remnants of the already tattered foundation of democracy itself.
When your government takes your income and distributes it at its whims, democracy no longer exists. Tyranny takes its place. It is tyranny when your government decides whether or not you live or die. It is tyranny when your politicions are so in lockstep with each other that elections become irrelevant. It is tyranny when your government is so corrupt that it lives under a different set of rules than its citizenry. Merely desiring complete control over your life and death is itself tyranny.
If ObamaCare passes, democracy itself is dead. Although, it might be dead already.
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