Has anyone seen my fiddle?
I spend a lot of time on the internet. Being a cubicle slave for 40 hours a week at an undisclosed location affords me a lot of time to read other blogs and even their comments sections. At this one blog in particular a right-wing republican blogger was railing against the reconciliation process being employed by house and senate democrats to pass the health care boondoggle by bypassing the filibuster in the senate. Inevitably one of the commentors calling himself Proud_Liberal was pointing out the republicans in the past used the same tactic to pass tax cut legislation. This of course descended into the typical partisan bickering and name calling that is characteristic of what passes for political discourse in this day and age. The liberal called the conservative a racist. The conservative called the liberal a fascist. This went on and on with the liberal foaming at the mouth about Bush’s push to war in Iraq and Afghanistan followed by the conservative defending a revolutionary standpoint using the health care reform bill as the proverbial final straw. The whole thing was idiotic.
The problem with both sides to these sorts of debates is the hypocrisy. I pointed this out in a previous post entitled Hooray for Our Side. Democrat apologists will often use the line “You didn’t complain when Bush did the same thing.” when Republican supporters point out the missteps of the current administration. They have a point but there’s a fallacy to this argument. The conservatives didn’t complain about the socialist agenda of G.W. Bush but the progressives did. Now that a Democrat congress and executive administration is in place the progressives have no problem with anything the congress does while the conservatives are crying for revolution. Republican politicians are trying to convince the voting public that if they win majorities in the house and senate in the 2010 elections that they will enact change (sound familiar?). In the words of our 43rd President “fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
I for one want the progressive socialist agenda to go through. Yes, you read that correctly. I give up. I want it to go through. I can almost hear you say “Are you crazy, Ivan?” *snicker* There’s a reason I say this. For the last century or so progressives, communists, and socialists have always believed that if they were granted broad sweeping powers they could remake any nation into a Utopian paradise. They’ve been trying this for nearly 100 years and they have failed miserably every time. The former Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, Cambodia, and Cuba are just a few examples of how this agenda only serves to impoverish and ultimately enslave the majority of the population for the good of the state. However, despite the empirical failures of the progressive philosophy these folks are still convinced that it could work if only they were the ones to implement it. My response to them is “Go for it. Let’s see how that works out for you. ” Yes, I want America to be flushed down the commie rat hole. I want it to become clear to every man woman and child in excruciating detail just how backwards, perverse, and destructive the socialist agenda actually is. Sometimes lessons need to be learned the hard way and Americans need to know firsthand why socialism is ultimately a kind of serfdom rivaling that of the middle ages.
Republican bloggers often call for revolution, but in reality the only revolution they want is more Republicans in office doing the same things their Democrat predecessors have been doing all along. Also as is expertly pointed out by Democrats who claim “Republicans did the same thing”, the Democrats are no different than their reviled Republican counterparts. The political polarization in this country has nothing to do with principles, facts, or morality. It is strictly about party affiliation. So I give up. This country deserves to be 12 trillion dollars in debt. This country deserves the 50 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities from medicare, medicaid, and social security. This country deserves the 2 trillion dollar a year health care boondoggle being foisted upon us by our elected flunkies. The people in this country have abandoned it’s founding principles long ago and the only way back is for the Federal government to collapse under it’s own weight the same way the Soviet Union did. If the Democrat’s health care reform bill will help to speed up this process then I fully endorse it. Let Rome burn.
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I'm pretty much over it too. Have been for a while. If the argument is that sometimes, you have to let people suffer the consequences of their choices, well… now's the perfect time to do it.
Buuuut. We both know that the magical health care / education reform / no more war ideas are just tossed out to distract us all from the fact that government has accomplished fuck-all to fix the problems it caused.