Tragedy of the Elites
By Amit Singh | Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 | PolicyI am noticing in many of my “debates” with supporters of the healthcare bill, when I ask how the bill will be paid for and whether it is unconstitutional, the response I most often get is, “well what about how the Repubicans ran up the debt when they were in power?” or “wasn’t the Patriot Act unConstitutional?”
So they correctly point out bad fiscal policies and civil liberty violations of the past, but what bedazzles me is that they use previous bad behavior to excuse current bad behavior. This perpetual cycle of bad decisions enabling other bad decisions is quite worrisome as the country continues on a downward spiral. The airline bailouts excused the auto bailouts which excused the insurance bailouts and on and on. To be sure, this is not a new phenomenon but the stakes right now are the highest I have ever seen for domestic policy. Perhaps things need to get worse before they get better but right now what I see is that our mistakes of the past have led to our current mistakes.
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This is truly an “us against them” argument, where supporters and Progressives think this is a game. The game is to defeat the Republicans, defeat the Republicans to punish the Republicans, then gloat and to celebrate that they’ve beat and punished the Republicans. Case in point was that disgusting celebration today with champaign corks flying and the cheer leading by our supposed refined and dignified members of Congress.
There is no “love of country”, “patriotism”, “we the people” or “gee, if we do this what will happen and what or who may get hurt?” in any of this because it is an amoral competition between political parties that is taking apart our country for the sake of one side winning over the other side and then celebrating.
Now, on to Immigration Reform and Cap and Trade where the game begins again.
Pelosi, et al, are playing a dangerous, arrogant game. Unlike them, there are people that are perceiving this as a possible overthrow of the Constitution. Already, there are reports of violence and vandalism.
And instead of looking inward and realizing that THEY are frightening people, that violent will be dismissed as random kooks. Well, enough random kooks and you have a fight on your hands.
what I don’t think people realize is that this bill sets the precedent for the Feds to force California to deport all their illegal immigrants and nullify all their medical marijuana laws. will the same folks who are championing this bill today be in favor of the same procedures when it goes against something they believe in? and will Republicans show constraint when they return to power? I think the answer in both cases is “no”
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