posted at 11:54 pm on October 26, 2010 by Doctor Zero
In a radio interview for Latino audiences, President Obama laid bare the ugly reality of statist government:
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”
Referring specifically to Republicans such as Senator John McCain, who formerly supported an overhaul but now are stressing border security and supporting strict immigration laws like Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration measure, Mr. Obama said, “Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.”
Did you ever imagine you would witness a President using this kind of rhetoric? Well, get used to it. He was dumping a fresh load of shame upon the office he occupies, but Barack Obama was also giving Latino voters some perfectly reasonable advice.
The power of the State is the power of compulsion. In a free country, this power is used to protect the rights of citizens. The “core value” of the Left is the embrace of “positive rights.” They believe citizens have a “right” to health care, affordable housing, and various other benefits. The State has a moral duty to use compulsive force to secure these “rights” for everyone.
What does a “right” to health care imply about the rights of doctors and insurance companies? The progressive taxation of income, which funds the State’s quest for social justice, compromises the right of highly taxed citizens to ownership of their time and property. The “right” to affordable housing unleashed the Godzilla of Fannie Mae upon the downtown Tokyo of the American economy.
It is logically impossible to provide a positive right to some, without compromising the rights of others. If cheap health insurance is compelled for those with pre-existing conditions, the right of insurance companies to run their business in a prudent, profitable manner is negated. If “free” health care is seized by government and distributed as it sees fit, the medical industry will become first indentured, and then nationalized, without regard to the will of its members. In a land where food is “free,” farmers are slaves.
A socialist government becomes an arbiter of rights. The State decides whose rights must be discarded, so that others can be satisfied. Naturally, politicians will make these decisions in accordance with their political interests, for as long as they must suffer popular elections. An individual’s rights become contingent on the influence of their political collective.
A highly organized group with well-connected leadership can expect its “rights” to be honored, at the expense of others. No doubt you thought of at least half a dozen examples while you read the previous sentence.
President Obama was entirely correct to advise the Latino voting bloc to hang together, obey its leadership, and trade their votes for rewards from the ruling class. When rights are balanced against each other, in an equation resolved by the use of compulsive force, those who belong to opposing groups are your enemies. Your prosperity comes with their defeat. Holding interest groups together becomes vitally important for success under the total State. The force which binds those groups will inevitably sour into hatred.
This is not a core American value, but it is a core value of the modern Democrat Party. Their President gave his Latino audience a taste of things to come. Tomorrow is France, and the day after is Greece
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