Obama’s dangerous charge of “absolutism”
Once the president’s opponents have been defined in the American mind as despotically inclined, unsusceptible to reason, and unwilling to play by the normal rules of politics, it is only natural that extreme measures are permitted in response.
This White House has already shown a propensity toward ruling by executive fiat – whether by executive action that effectively enacts rejected legislation, by refusing to enforce existing law, or by crafting rules for legislation to grant vast new powers to bureaucrats.
Once it has de-legitimized the opposition, the White House can claim it is left with no choice but to accelerate and expand its use of executive power. What else can they do, the president and his operatives will argue, when faced with the insanity of the Republicans?
The press, which avidly buys into the notion that much of the House Republican caucus is beyond reason, will lend a sympathetic ear to Obama as he struggles with the forces of darkness.
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canopfor on January 28, 2013 at 10:23 PM
The next step is to dehumanize us. That makes trucking us off to the ovens much easier.
Yeah, I went there.
CurtZHP on January 28, 2013 at 10:29 PM
No, he will be up to his neck in people who have only one alternative left.
Dusty on January 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM
Brilliant.
ConservativeLA on January 28, 2013 at 11:16 PM
Thus the mania of the left to disarm us, so us subhumans cannot fight back.
Rebar on January 28, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Anyone who opposes the First Obama Empire is an ENEMY of the Republic!
Execute Order 66!
wildcat72 on January 29, 2013 at 12:41 AM
I posted this at Ace’s yesterday, but I think it’s related to your post.
You know, I think I’m really late to this party, and this is a bit of a rant, but I want to confess.
Four years ago (and in some cases, longer) some very alarmist voices started popping up here. I never dreamed they were anything more than tin-foil types. I mean, martial law? Repealing the 22nd? Confiscating guns? Please. That stuff just doesn’t happen in the States.
Yet here we are, in 2013, actively discussing amongst ourselves whether or not we are actually willing to die on this hill. Not in some romantic metaphorical sense, but in a stone-cold literal one. That’s scary.
What’s scarier is that those alarmist voices don’t sound alarmist anymore. They sound practical. It can be easily argued, through well-supported empirical and tangible facts that Obama’s entire Presidency has been leading to this: the disarming and enslaving of the populace.
The media has become an arm of the government in a sense never before seen. Bias we’ve seen. Advocacy and collusion we haven’t – not on this scale.
The takers have overpowered the makers in terms of voting demographics and planted our economy into what is – in my eyes – an unrecoverable spin.
The government has begun making all the moves one would expect if they were to declare themselves above the people. They are positioned to declare us their subjects, and half of the country is screaming in ecstasy. The other half is marveling at how easily it’s happened, mourning the Republic, and quietly preparing for what looks more and more likely to be the inevitable showdown.
When I swore my oath, I always knew it was possible for me to die defending my country. I just never imagined it was possible for me to die defending it from my government.
And so to the question: Is this a hill I’m willing to die on? Is this a hill on which I’m willing to spill my blood in the literal sense of the word? When the metal meets the meat, am I prepared to give my live protecting my country from itself?
Yes.
Washington Nearsider on January 29, 2013 at 7:38 AM