George Rebane
The confluence of the three international hysterias – war on terror (i.e. Islam vs West), global warming, financial crisis – with the advent of our first openly socialist president marks the start of a new epoch. The masses and media have converged in Washington DC, and the show of shows is about to start. There will not be a dry eye in the crowd. The specially written songs and poems for the event all tell us that it is now that we will finally become free and realize the promise of America.
Standing unnoticed on the side there are a few of us who have seen this all before. That trifecta is now in place, and the administration along with a compliant Congress will immediately begin making policy, passing legislation, and enforcing regulations that are guaranteed to ratchet back our freedoms like never before in this country’s history – all for the good of ‘the people’ and ‘saving the earth’.
A friend and correspondent pointed out a timely piece (‘Atlas Shrugged: from fiction to fact in 52 years’) published last week in the WSJ. In it Stephen Moore reminds us that Ayn Rand’s fiction of a half-century ago is now the reality that has quietly enveloped us without so much as a moan from the greedy capitalists and entrepreneurs who have been busy manufacturing their own nooses along with all the good things in our lives. There are no films in the archives of streets or malls filled with people demanding the rollback of encroaching government, the restoration of the Constitution and its former guarantees.
Unless the Islamists, sensing weakness, strike first, my bet is on the perfect partnership of the financial crisis and global warming that will invite the government to complete the mangling of American markets into a similitude of the EU. And then, of course, we must demonstrate ‘leadership’ and really show them how to nip innovation and initiative in the bud. This is called for by the global warming hysteria that is now gearing up for the final push to turn us all green. Here is a typical piece (‘President has four years to save Earth’) reverberating around the web that screams a warning not substantiated by any science that can be presented and debated in a reasoned forum. And our scientifically illiterate electorate will now peacefully follow the loudest clanging bells to the new world that awaits us all.
Plan B: Let your voices be heard in your local statehouse and Congress.
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