Posted on 03/16/2010 5:30:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Road To Serfdom: Liberals' plan to reform the medical system has always seemed more an attempt to radically transform the nation than a good-faith effort to cut costs and expand coverage. Now they've confirmed it.
Today's Democrats aren't interested in constitutional or traditional limitations on government. They want to remake American life based on their notions of what's ideal, and they are more than willing to force leftward change on an ostensibly free people.
While this has been clear for some time, it still rocks us a bit when they acknowledge such plans out loud.
The loudest came Monday when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers that turning the Democratic Party leaders' health care overhaul into law would embolden them to drive America away from its roots of liberty and independence.
"Kick open that door, and there will be other legislation to follow," she said. "We'll take the country in a new direction."
The only surprise is that the speaker from uber-Democratic San Francisco would be so frank. The country is already in open, though peaceful, revolt against her party's health care overhaul.
Declaring publicly that the left has plans to take the country unwillingly on some Great Leap Forward seems rather foolish. Does she believe the public will eagerly accept more central planning?
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Great Leap Forward?
Sounds like Mao to me
It’s an attempt to make enough dependent people and union/government employees to prevent anything but Democrat rule.
If this passes though, instead you can have many generations of Democrats being unelectable if Republicans run on repealing the bad health bill.
After terrorists like William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and the others of the Students for a Democratic Society and its Spinoff, The Weathermen started being sent to jail and accidentalloy blowing themselves up in bomb factories, the Communist/Marxist urban terrorists of the 1960s said they’d stop killing police and bombing federal buildilngs and would “change it from within,” but nobody believed them and everyone soon forgot they’d said that. They proceeded to move up in their professional ranks and changed the curricula of the opinion-making professionals - journalism, law, teaching, librarianship, and theology to include only their own anti-American, anti-Israel agenda.
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