I had thought of these parallels, too. Good article.
It is almost suicidal, in a cult-like sense. Watching these Democrats over Obamacare. I have never seen anything like it They must know this is their last chance to rig the system by controlling 17% of the US Economy which will be their only foot in the door to eventually expand to a Socialist State with uncontrolled and unstoppable, absolute power for the next 100 years. And they have waited since the 1920s for this. From Norman Thomas and Henry A. Wallace to Gus Hall and Benjamin Spock.
These Marxists who are realizing that they cannot so cavalierly and without a fight take over an essentially non-Marixan country, and are going bonkers as a result. Total flame out. There are interesting parallels to desperate, hopelessly inward looking Imperial Japanese Fascism in its final death throes, and what the Obongo Administration has in store for itself politically, which they know, which is forcing them into this lemming-like fireball of political self-immolation. It is all or nothing at all. Just like they are apt to say in their Cuban form, Socialismo o Muerte. Socialism or Death.
They are truly kamikazes. They are true to form.
勝か死ぬか、それしかない。
I don't think they "realize" that at all. They are, with many other devices beyond health care as their weapons, proceeding to in fact take over the country. Read the below post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2468618/posts#7