Transforming or Already Transformed?

In a Saturday post at The Corner, under the heading Transformation, Andy McCarthy comments on the upcoming November elections and the alleged nervousness of Democrats subject to reelection by the whim of voters, with an emphasis on how the health care debacle plays into this.

McCarthy states that the Democrats are to the point where they will attempt to pass ObamaCare (DeathCare), regardless of how it may effect upcoming November elections, in order to move closer to the overall goal of the State, which is complete power/control over individuals lives, and McCarthy then makes this statement.

This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you’ve calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state. (bold by ed.)

The absolute truth of the portion of the above quote which I’ve highlighted can be illustrated by the following comment, taken from a Vodkapundit post titled The Brutal Truth About Californians, wherein an individual who attended a recent talk to a group of California conservatives, if there are actually conservatives in California, given by California’s State Controller of Currency, notes the response of conservatives to questions regarding the cutting of certain social programs.

Here’s the really scary thing: he asked the group how many people would be willing to cut spending in the following areas: Education, Health Care assistance, and Prisons? These areas comprise 92% of California’s budget, so any meaningful cuts would have to touch them. I was the ONLY person in the room that raised their hand for all three. And without naming names, this was one of the most conservative groups of people you could get into a room (at least in Cali).

If people don’t even have the guts to raise their hands in a room full of as like-minded a bunch as you’re going to find, how on earth do they expect their politicians to do anything? (bold by ed.)

As Billy Beck notes, after reading the above quote.

At this point of this disaster, there will be no voting our way out of it. The prevailing epistemology doesn’t permit it: there simply are not enough people out there who know how to think. The dominant ethics of the culture won’t have it: everybody wants to live at the expense of everyone else, and freedom is not a value in this country, anymore.

I say that you can count California as quite fairly representative of the United States at large, and you can take it from there.

America has been transformed.  Unfortunately it has been transformed into a gutless, socialist wonder.

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