CLOUDS GATHER, THE THUNDER HAS ALREADY SOUNDED

“This presidency is an unmitigated disaster”. So says a famous commentator and undoubtedly he is right. You just don’t see it put so succinctly very often. The “health care”…thing…which was just passed is an unprecedented, and unmitigated disaster, but it is only the latest and possibly the worst of assaults on basic American dignity by this cohort of Third World-caliber political gangsters. To just say, “This presidency..,” etc. covers things more thoroughly and is probably more parsimonious except that it lets “this Congress” too far off the hook. But this Congress has not exactly led these societaly suicidal charges; it has more been dragged and pushed and bribed toward Gomorrah. And there is the problem. Since when did Congress stop being a branch of government, and start being a cowed arm of the White House? Well, it started before the Obamanation, but its shameful, pathetic demise has been put on fast forward thenceforth. Nowhere has this been more underlined than with the health care ukase. Here, a very important line was crossed: the house of the people and the august Senate lionized with unintended campiness by the likes of Robert Byrd, ignored the clearly and loudly expressed will of the people—violated it, in fact, with contemptuous disregard—and did the “president’s” bidding. When has this happened before? When has a supposedly democratically-responsible American government ever acted so autocratically, with such disdain for the public in an immense area of domestic policy? Even wars—not usually amenable to politics-by-polling once commenced—have had to answer ultimately to the will—or lack thereof—of the people. Thus the elitist imposition of Obamedicine is a monumental event.

The perfidious and odious nature of this regime and the true face of its jug-eared head have been surprising and dismaying only to a breed of politically naïve, and in some cases stupid, voters and public commentators. For some reason best left to the musings of cognitive psychologists, these people were convinced, or at least “hopeful” that the current Chairman of the Politburo was a moderate, who would govern from the center. It is thanks to this few million nitwits that we are in this predicament. So for those who look at the clown make-up, green wig, and big floppy shoes and don’t see a clown, consider this from Reuters—a foreign arm of the Obamedia who are by no means flag-waving Reaganites:

“Democrats in Congress who passed historic legislation… to revamp the U.S. healthcare system face a new challenge over the next seven months: convincing voters it's a good deal.”

So here is Obamacracy in action. Your “representatives” do whatever the hell they want to—including what you have loudly and specifically told them not to do—and then they go out and try to convince you that what they did was what you really wanted. Or should have wanted, anyway. But wait, there’s more:

“If Democrat lawmakers fail to counter public opposition, it could cost them their jobs in mid-term elections”.

Not if Democrats counter Republicans, mind you, but if they can counter the public opposition. It is Democrats vs. the Public. That should not be seen as anything short of a shocking portrayal of on-the-ground reality in a supposed democracy. It takes foreigners to see what is obviously going on here? Problem is, of course, that the said job losses probably won’t transpire in most cases. Even though pointing out that elected officials who give the finger to the public may not get reelected seems like a non-cerebral statement of the obvious, it is not. Remember that in the last round, all the public required is something shiny and distracting—like a minority candidate a vacuous slogans—to get the above-metioned well-intentioned numbskulls to vote for them. And the gravitational pull of a black hole has nothing on deep-blue political territory for sucking light into permanent oblivion. Sheep will become astrophysicists before the District of Columbia votes Republican.

So, if public opinion no longer matters for the setting of policy, how, precisely, are grievances to be addressed. This is dangerous territory. The lack of accountability to the people is usually a harbinger of change of a more dramatic and even violent type. The plain fact is no one—Obamanicks, others of the even more distant Left, or “moderates” of whatever polka-dot pattern—can expect to keep assaulting and violating the basic cultural values of a big portion of the population without expecting significant blowback. Just as the Obamedia should realize that legitimizing Obama’s ideas means legitimizing the more aggressive strains of the “militia” movement as well; it has to be seen that simply ignoring his most blatant transgressions in service of that bleak agenda is not assuaging them. Culture still exists. And the American culture does not follow the lead of effete weasels, quota-pushers, and quislings. Americanism is not dormant outside the Beltway and Upper Manhattan. Accommodation seems less and less likely. Clouds are gathering.