With sales of Ayn Rand’s books skyrocketing it is obvious that the premise of this article is spot on. Obama has done those of us who value freedom a service. Whether we can take advantage of it or not is left in the hands of the party that has done such a terrible job of defending it in the past. Heaven help us because the Republicans will do all they can to subvert the tea-party. Neither party loves the idea of individual freedom. But the Republicans used to at least give lip service to the idea…perhaps out of self preservation they can finally rise up and back their words up with actions?
The Democrats—shocked in their own way by the public response to their transparency—spent the late summer trying to obfuscate these issues. They have portrayed the protesters as “un-American,” the Republicans as obstructionist, and themselves as reasonable. Such attempts are further isolating the Democrats from millions of Americans, many of whom are beginning to see that the Democrats rather than the protesters are opposed to America’s founding principles. Unlike the atomic bombs dropped on Japan—which turned Japan away from dictatorship and toward freedom and individual rights—Obama’s bomb is intended to move America more quickly into authoritarian rule, and ultimately into dictatorship. Rather than acquiesce to the ultimatum, however, many Americans are standing against it.
The protests and the polls are clear: Americans have, by and large, rejected the radical leftist agenda. But the issue is not yet closed. The Democrats have one last resource—one secret weapon—with which they can save their plans while avoiding political suicide in the next election. That weapon is the Republicans.
If the Republicans compromise—if they accept federally-mandated health insurance in the guise of a “co-op” or the like, or a cap-and-trade bill that is marginally less draconian than the Democratic version—they will have once again capitulated to their opponents, abandoned liberty, and ruined the opportunity to redirect this nation toward its founding moral principle: individual rights, protected under a constitution in a free republic.“Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda” by John David Lewis
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