Topic: Liberal Fascism
Critics typically characterize Barack Obama’s retreat from reality in terms of foreign policy: Iraq, Afghanistan, the fight against Islamofascism, Iran, Putinist Russia. But it’s in the field of domestic policy that he’s really out in Left field.
Free community college for all! Or to translate: Let’s take a bad idea—that everyone but everyone should go to college—and make it worse by shoving the costs onto the taxpayer. Yes, I know, I know: The “rich” will be the only ones who pay. But when you add up all the stuff that Obama and his leftie minions expect the rich to finance via taxes…well, not even Amerikka, quasi-fascist epicenter of income inequality, has that many rich people.
Having proposed one truly stupid idea without being struck by lightning, our Community Organizer-in-Chief apparently decided to double down with that hardy perennial of progressive fabulists, “paid sick leave.” Paid by whom, do you ask? Who else? Once more the rich will be asked to dig deep. Because, after all, the rich are bad, greedy people. So screw them! America is exhorted to adopt these policies so as to advance into the ranks of the advanced industrial democracies…like France with its 11% unemployment rate.
There’s a common thread in these proposals from the President and in the mind-set of the Left generally: contempt for the work ethic. Remember Nancy Pelosi, rhapsodizing that Obamacare would enable Americans to quit their dead-end jobs and pursue their “dreams”? The idea that hard work is how you make your dreams come true seems alien to these coddled elitists. Besides which, some dreams are the reverse of worthy or noble. Many people, it seems, dream of doing nothing in particular while other people support them. Thanks to progressivism we have plenty of programs in place to support such dreams already. Barack Obama’s claim that more are needed seems to me dubious—to put it as gently as possible.
