"When radical leaders over the last 2,500 years have sought to enforce
equality of results, their prescriptions were usually predictable:
redistribution of property; cancellation of debts; incentives to bring
out the vote and increase political participation among the poor;
stigmatizing of the wealthy, whether through the extreme measure of
ostracism or the more mundane forced liturgies; use of the court system
to even the playing field by targeting the more prominent citizens;
radical growth
in government and government employment; the use of state employees as
defenders of the egalitarian faith; bread-and-circus entitlements;
inflation of the currency and greater national debt to lessen the power
of accumulated capital; and radical sloganeering about reactionary
enemies of the new state." (emphasis mine)
The whole article by Victor Davis Hansen is here. As I and many others have been opining for some time now, it is not important to the success of Obama and his minions (or controllers, depending on your perspective) whether Congress reads a bill before voting or even if the program so installed actually works. What is important simply is that the government grows larger and larger and the elites gain more and more control over the product of those who actually work and produce.
The whole article by Victor Davis Hansen is here. As I and many others have been opining for some time now, it is not important to the success of Obama and his minions (or controllers, depending on your perspective) whether Congress reads a bill before voting or even if the program so installed actually works. What is important simply is that the government grows larger and larger and the elites gain more and more control over the product of those who actually work and produce.
