This is not about tax rates, the national debt, or government spending. This is the manifestation of Obama’s Hope and Change vow to “transform America” into European-styled socialism. Obama is a totalitarian who believes an inherent evil, greed and lust for power resides in each individual that must be controlled by government. I believe exactly the opposite, which by sheer happenstance is the same political philosophy that led our founders to write the Constitution limiting power of government.
Obama does not “hate” America; he sees it as a flawed colonial state that has robbed it’s own citizens of their deserved wealth, while robbing the rest of the world even more. Obama is the culmination of 70+ years of Progressive work designed to change American culture to diminish the focus on individual liberty in exchange for the “collective good.” By slowly infiltrating the media (newspapers, TV and movies) and the public schools (teachers unions and university professors) with progressive liberals, they have shaped the mindset of generations away from individual freedom with a process psychologists call successive approximations. We are now on the verge of the last stand.
It is not Obama who has put us here. He is simply the Hollywood prop "Houdini'd" into office as the figurehead of a movement driven by labor unions, academics and intellectuals, communists-socialists and the ultra-rich (who love concentration of power because in insures them unrivaled access to economic power and control).
No, the true responsibility lies with the Republicans, the self-professed keepers of the American Dream. These individuals sold us out long ago for their own seat at the table of the power elite that being a part of Washington affords. They are simply a part of the machine of government that is chewing away at the Grand Experiment. Do not be fooled by their slight of hand. They have provided the essential function of distracting us with false hope that they stand for the same principles as us while they actively participate in undermining them.
What we will see, sooner or later, is a “fix” similar to the 10-15 “fixes” we have witnessed in Greece in the past 5 years, while America steadily declines. The resulting unrest will lead to greater demands the government “do something,” which will be the justification for total erosion of individual freedom via the destruction of property rights. It is coming, folks. The only question is whether those Patriots left among us will stand and fight one last time.