Posted by
Dan Abbett on Sunday, March 29, 2009 3:32:01 PM
The natives are restless, the rhetoric is heated, the divisions between political partisans are pronounced and battle plans are being drawn. This isn’t a description of a war-torn third world nation or lawless factions ruled by ruthless warlords, it is picture of the “United States of America.”
To be fair, the deep divisions of ideology have been apparent since January of 2001, when George Bush assumed the presidency. Since that time, it has been contentious but not on the brink of anarchy. In just three months however, our new president, his cabinet members, advisors and the Democratic Party have civil society near the point of civil war. They have fired their volley at the Fort Sumter of our constitution as they push the hot buttons of partisanship to promote the next Bull Run.
This concept was evident recently when the public was whipped into a frenzy over the handsome bonuses being paid to executives of insurance giant AIG. The appropriateness of these bonuses is not the topic of discussion however, government culpability and public outrage is. It was by specific direction of the government that language protecting those bonuses was inserted in the “stimulus” bill and signed into law by the president.
It was the same government that feigned outrage when knowledge of these bonuses became public knowledge. It was beyond hypocrisy to watch the very people who inserted that language, lead the lynch mobs calling for the heads of the beneficiaries of the law that “they” wrote. In the words of Hillary Clinton, to ignore this treachery “requires a willing suspension of disbelief.”
The question unasked is who “leaked” the names of the AIG execs to the public? Who provided their names and addresses to the “community organizer” sponsored protests in front of their private residences? What was their motive for doing so? These are questions demanding answers.
Adding fuel to an already explosive situation is the fact that with every passing day, we learn that our president speaks in riddles and lies. His message in his most recent press conference was that “his budget moves America from an era of borrow and spend to “save and invest.” His spending to date is already estimated to equal the combined spending of every president to date, to include George Bush. Additionally, his budget pushes the deficit to 9.3 trillion dollars. “Save and invest?” This isn’t just a faux pas, it is a big fat whopper and our president says it with the sincerity. The road to anarchy begins with a complete lack of trust.
This escalation of class warfare directly promoted by the Obama administration, excoriating big business, large corporations and of course the evil rich, is achieving its objective. We are accelerating our dependence on the government and losing our independent spirit of achievement and entrepreneurism. As we move towards a “people by the government,” racial lines are being redrawn, the poor decry the rich and the middle is caught between the bottom falling out and the confines of a ceiling they can no longer rise above.
Our government is essentially out of control. It is no longer a governing body of the people consisting of elected representatives; it has digressed into an egocentric cult with a dictatorial mindset using chaos and crisis as the basis for its power.
As a direct result of the “factionalization” of society, we are no longer “one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all;” we are separate units, each with their own demographic identity and agenda. It is through this division of unity and purpose that the government can conquer the independent nature of America and replace it with centralized government and control.
It is clear that America has its dander up; the question is how will that anger manifest itself? Will it be used as a tool to defend against attempts to overturn the foundation that lead to becoming the world’s most powerful and prosperous nation or turn on itself in chaotic anarchy and become just another socialistic third world country courtesy of its sponsors in Washington?