Back from Vacation

I just spent 5 day at my parents internet dead zone.

But even my mother, a child of the Depression, who is legally blind and can only listen to TV (and watches only ABC News This week with George Stephanopolus and Luu Dobbs) said to me quite unsolicited, “Can you believe how slick that Obama is. You know he’s a socialist.”

Yes, Mom. I do.

And so does The Ministry of Truth and the President. But it’s not like they are going to let anyone tell anyone or anything.

If you mention it the liberal media will drip contempt and scorn on you.

“Most socialists share the view that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation, creates an unequal society, does not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximise their potentialitiesand does not utilize technology and resources to their maximum potential nor in the interests of the public.”

Sound familiar??

Barack Obama, in 2001:

You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil-rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution — at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [It] says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil-rights movement was because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that. (NRO)

The entire purpose of the Constitution was to limit government. That limitation of powers is what has unlocked in America the vast human potential available in any population.

So the whole idea America is nearly gone.

The life support is failing.

So, comrade, how’s your life going?