(Paglia weighs in)
I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin hit on in her shocking image of a ‘death panel’ under Obamacare that would make irrevocable decisions about the disabled and elderly. When I first saw that phrase, headlined on the Drudge Report, I burst out laughing. It seemed so over the top! But on reflection, I realized that Palin’s shrewdly timed metaphor spoke directly to the electorate’s unease with the prospect of shadowy, unelected government figures controlling our lives. A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished.”
We may live to see Paglia abandon her leftie friends altogether.
I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism.
You don’t, Camille? Wake up, dear. That is what the leftist “philosophy” IS! SOULLESS COLLECTIVISM!! Neither the existence nor the rights of the individual count for a thing—unless, of course, it happens to be an individual of IMPORTANCE. You know, like a Kennedy or a Clinton or a Pelosi! That’s where the collectivism ends, allowing Teddy to receive a million dollars worth of cancer treatment whereas a 75 year old John Doe will be issued a pill...if he’s lucky!