The Leftist Agenda

I just came across an interesting article about the Obama administration's health care plans. The article outlines two critical points central to the Leftist ultimate goal and how this goal is to be attained. The significance of these two points actually has nothing to do with the serious dangers involved in the government run health care advocated by the Obama Daschle crew. Rather, the real hair raisers come when Daschle discusses how to overcome the objections to what he admits will be a radical and unpopular system that denies patients and doctors the ability to decide for themselves the course of action they think best.

Daschle's proposal is to simply omit all of the unpleasant details from the bill entirely, a mistake he believes prevented Bill Clinton from succeeding with his government health care plans. The bill should instead call for the creation of a board to oversee the implementation of this vast new federal bureaucracy, which can then formulate all the non-politic aspects of the program. Daschle notes that this approach has the further benefit of insulating the implementation of such radical polices from political pressure, i.e. from the ballot box, where voters could endanger the Left's political reorganization of the state.

My question is why such tactics, which are not only whispered about at closed fundraisers to complain about "bitter people clinging to their religion and guns," do not divest the Left and the Democrats of their self-bestowed mantle as the defenders of democracy and the "little guy?" The party which advocates that big government take care of all the scary problems (read responsibilities) in life, which of necessity thereby dispenses with the messy need for people to decide for themselves, is amazingly the same party that claims to be the only defenders against the right-wing fascist apparition just waiting to rise from the depths to tyrannize us all. It is difficult to understand how the Democrats can so easily have it both ways. It is even more difficult to understand how the Republican/Conservative movement has allowed big-government Democrats get away with such a gross distortion of the truth. Why do the defenders of freedom and the true tradition of liberalism not stand up and claim their rightful heritage and force the Democrats to choose between their radical reorganization of the state and being the party which "truly" represents the people?

Americans are not (yet) so far gone into the malaise of socialism or welfarism that they would not stand up and object to this disingenuous and sinister attempt to steal away the precious liberty that is this country's greatest legacy - if they only knew about it. No normal person wants the state involved in the decision process between themselves and their doctor, and certainly no one wants a system removed from the political "pressure," i.e. oversight, of the people. The Left's willingness to use such tactics that hide from the voter what he is really deciding about place far more at stake than the the hellish prospect of a DMV of medicine. At stake is the very character of this country and the democratic nature of a government of the people, for the people, and by the people - not some small elite imposing its ideas on the people.