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When I first anchored my “American Manifesto” to three simple ideas — that government is force, that politics is division, that system is domination, and that the glorious conservatism to come had to break out of the destructive combination of government, politics, and system — I worried that maybe I had advanced a bridge too far. Maybe I had overdone it.
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But now that cartoonists are transitioning their Obamacare images from Titanic icebergs to Hindenburg disasters, the reality of Obama-style politics shows that, if anything, I was too timid.
As the three concepts bounced around in my mind, I kept thinking: what do they mean? What do they add up to? Then it came to me: these three ideas add up to the fact that the only thing government is good for is a war.
You want a war?
First of all you’ve got to get everyone all riled up, and you do that by dividing the world up into an us-versus-them world. “They” are the monsters, while “we” are the good guys that care about justice and freedom. In such world, there is no remedy but a war to force the enemy to submit to our will, and dominate them forever with a great economic, education or regulatory system.
You can have a war against foreign threats like the wars against communism and radical Islam, as conservatives do. Or you can have a nice little war here at home against your fellow citizens, fighting against exploitation, or inequality, or racism, sexism, homophobia, in the name of social justice, like our liberal friends.
For over a century liberals have been convincing each other that the U.S. health care system is intolerable and that only a comprehensive and mandatory system of health care run by liberals and their experts could provide a solution to this intolerability. They declared war on the unjust America that could tolerate anything less, hence, Obamacare.
In reality, people want health care and other people want to provide health care services. So why not just let everyone go at it?
Why in the world would you want to gin up a war over health care? Why would you need to go to the trouble of mobilizing the best liberals in the nation to cudgel their brains into coming up with a single-payer health care system for the ages when they could be better engaged expressing their creativity, getting tenure, or saving the planet instead?
But that’s exactly what Obamacare’s all about.
After a century of build-up, the liberal big push known as “operation Obamacare” is brilliantly destroying health care as we know it. Soon enough, General Obama will peer through his digital binoculars at the health care no-mans-land and have the satisfaction of seeing the health care rubble bounce.
It won’t be long before liberals sense that something is terribly wrong. It may happen as soon as November 2014 when their political coalition is reduced to bouncing rubble.
Maybe then they will learn that the way to improve health care is for everyone to let everyone get to work to improve health care and not to gin up a war over it.
Moral of the story: if you get government involved in anything, you are saying, “Let’s have a lovely war.”
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