CREEPING TOWARD OBLIVION - AT 8:53 A.M. ET:  I heard an interesting definition last night.  It seems that in Britain they have a rather strong "green" movement - you know, the environmental "activists."  But those who are on to them don't call them greens, but "watermelons" - green on the outside, red on the inside.

We saw that in Copenhagen.  The greatest applause at the "climate change" conference didn't greet President Obama, or even Al Green, uh Al Gore.  It greeted Hugo Chavez and his attacks on capitalism.  The climate-change movement, like many movements, has a hidden agenda - a move toward socialism and world government.  And yet, we're told very little about it by the mainstream media, which regards socialism as just another "narrative."

Investors Business Daily, in a fine editorial, discusses our own drift toward socialism, symbolized by the health "reform" package:

Health Care: Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass an execrable piece of legislation that they haven't read, the public doesn't want and only socialists could love. What has happened to this country?

And...

Let's see if we have this right:

This was a vote on a Democrat-concocted scheme that Americans have rejected every time it's been proposed for 100 years and that is opposed again, by 54% to 41% by the public at large, by 2-to-1 by practicing physicians and by every last member on the Republican side of the aisle.

What could these people possibly know?  Do they live in Manhattan?  Beverly Hills?  Do they have parties and invite African diplomats?

Despite growing public opposition, Democratic members had the nerve to call those who questioned their monstrosity "obstructionists" and worse. Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse called health care bill foes "birthers," "fanatics" and "people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups." Is this what Democrats meant when they said they seek bipartisan solutions to the nation's problems?

By bipartisan they mean that far-left Democrats and liberal Democrats will join together. 

As the nonpartisan Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation put it, "The House and Senate health care bills contain enormous tax hikes to accompany massive increases in government spending."

But, of course, in the eyes of the left, those are wonderful things.  Progress!

What's truly frightening about this bill isn't what it does, but what it sets us on course to do. Democrats have long said they see this bill as a first step toward a total takeover of U.S. health care, regardless of the consequences.

The bill's requirement that Americans buy insurance is a major step toward that takeover. It's the first time in our nation's history the government has made Americans buy something. Get used to it. It's going to become a pattern.

COMMENT:  It already is a pattern.  U.S. Government Wheels & Deals, formerly known as General Motors, is an example.  The 1960s left has come roaring back, a little more careful with its propaganda this time, getting protection from the slick rhetoric of Barack Obama, and supported by much of the media. 

It's pretty clear from the polls that many Americans are in fact aware of what is happening.  But we need that 50% plus one at the polls to reverse it.  And the clear goal of many on the left is to do what political machines in many cities have done so effectively, going back to the 19th century - make the people so dependent on the party in power that they feel they must vote them in year after year.  Tammany did it in New York, the Daley machine does it in Barack Obama's Chicago. 

Now the machine has gone national, and international.

December 22, 2009