For the first time, I’m hoping that Barack Obama delivers on his promise of “change”—and so are a majority of voters who are so opposed to ObamaCare that they already want the bill repealed. According to the latest Rasmussen poll at time of publication, 54% of likely voters want the bill repealed, and 52% said it is “bad for the country.”
The sharp divide over Obama’s healthcare bill runs antithetical to his promise of centrism. While campaigning, Barack Obama professed to be “post partisan;” and although it’s unsurprising that a politician hasn’t kept his campaign promise, what is surprising transcends the mishmash of the healthcare reform bill: The degree to which the Obama administration and Democrat-controlled Congress have ignored America is dangerous, and to borrow his favorite word, “unprecedented.”
The short version is that the healthcare bill is a certain catastrophe spread across an interminable nine-hundred-six pages. Of greater concern, however, is the disconnected government that it signifies. When a government appears indifferent to the people it professes to represent, it has ceased to be of, by, and for the people; rather, it has become an enemy of the people—and indeed, as the recent populist Tea Party movement sweeping the nation indicates, for many, the government has indeed become the enemy.
Tea Partiers are not the right-wing hate mongers unfortunately depicted by the mainstream media. The few despicable accounts of hate do not represent the movement in whole, and they certainly do not overshadow the same kind of hateful discourse that is also exhibited by the left. In reality, the thousands of Tea Party protesters are a mix of conservative and libertarian, white and black, and Caucasian and Hispanic. What they are in unison about, however, is opposition to government spending, size, and encroachment on the American people. No matter one’s personal feelings for the movement, it is undeniably present and active which underscores the gaping disconnect between the American people and most of their purported representatives in Washington.
The lack of respect that the Obama administration has displayed for the majority of American voters reveals the Democrats’ intention of a establishing a sort of “nanny state” against the people’s will. Despite the poll numbers, the heated town hall meetings, and the entire grassroots movement born out of opposition to ObamaCare, the Democrats have turned up their noses at their constituents. With an 11% approval rating, the congressional Democrats have abandoned the idea of representative democracy and instead turned the United States into a quasi-constitutional theocracy, where doctrinal socialism trumps all.
In this debate over ObamaCare, it is important to remember the Constitution. After all, if not for the Constitution, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama would be out of jobs. Yet the Democrats’ disregard for the document from which they derive their power in fact augments their power. Indeed, the goal of modern day liberalism is to effectively enslave the populace through unconstitutional government intrusion—like ObamaCare.
ObamaCare supporters speciously claim that the legislation is not a government takeover of the health care industry. And while it’s not explicitly, it is implicitly: The bill establishes the groundwork for the demise of private healthcare and the rise of healthcare run entirely by your oh-so-wise government officials, whose presence is now not only at your cradle and grave, but also in between at doctors’ appointments, dental cleanings, and hospital emergencies. This complete governmental pervasiveness is the endgame of the left. Without our health, what are we as human beings? The power to control who lives and dies is unrivaled in history.
The other side of this debate slyly diverts attention to the salivating benefits of ObamaCare such as the ability to stay on your parents’ health insurance until the age of twenty-six. You may ask, what’s wrong with that? In fact, what’s wrong with any of this? Who in his right mind would oppose extending healthcare coverage? Keep in mind that these ostensible benefits are merely window-dressings. Candy. Underneath the surface of this legislation lurks the real change that is concealed within. To quote a visionary, “change is coming.” The important question to consider is, what’s the vision?
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