Ares
7th January 2015, 04:55 AM
Ideology: Confirming the 2014 election zeitgeist, a new Gallup poll finds that Americans are fed up with ever-encroaching, corrupt and incompetent government, as represented by ObamaCare and other federal policies.
For the first time since Gallup has conducted polling, people say that the "biggest problem" in America is "the government." It topped all other categories, including terrorism. "2014 was the first year ever in Gallup records that dissatisfaction with government topped the list," the 80-year-old firm said. "Government includes dissatisfaction with President Obama."
And angst over government has been climbing each year since 2009, when Obama took office, breaking a long period of relative satisfaction with government.
If this doesn't repudiate Obama's government-is-the-answer agenda and his collectivist creed that we must all be our "brother's keeper," we don't know what does.
Beyond Obama, Americans are rejecting what the Left is selling — the idea that government should determine our fate. No, they're saying that individuals should determine their own fate, returning to the core values of individualism that made this country great.
This shift in public attitudes does not bode well for the likes of Obama heir-apparent Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who sermonizes about the virtues of the public sector and the evils of the "rigged" private sector.
Americans are not realigning left, as many in the media have rejoiced. They've just been hoodwinked by slick propagandists — Alinsky's coat-and-tie vanguard — who have to disguise and package their unpopular ideas as "helping the middle class." ObamaCare, which in fact is crippling the middle class, is Exhibit A.
The Obamas and Warrens of the world have to lie and deceive. It's the only way they can sell their socialist swill. It reveals just how bad their product really is.
In his many odes to big government, Obama has waxed Orwellian about how "preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action." He sermonizes about how "we have individual responsibility, but we also have collective responsibility to each other." He insists we have to be "our brother's keeper."
Such warmed-over Marxism is right out of the Alinsky handbook for radicals, the one Obama trained from as a community organizer and the one he still preaches from today.
Obama tells people that it's not their job as individuals to go out and pursue their own life and happiness, but rather the government's job to do it for them. In the classic novel "1984," "ownlife" was Newspeak for individualism — to think and do for oneself without Big Brother's help or approval.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/010515-733278-gallup-poll-confirms-that-americans-reject-obama-unlimited-government.htm
For the first time since Gallup has conducted polling, people say that the "biggest problem" in America is "the government." It topped all other categories, including terrorism. "2014 was the first year ever in Gallup records that dissatisfaction with government topped the list," the 80-year-old firm said. "Government includes dissatisfaction with President Obama."
And angst over government has been climbing each year since 2009, when Obama took office, breaking a long period of relative satisfaction with government.
If this doesn't repudiate Obama's government-is-the-answer agenda and his collectivist creed that we must all be our "brother's keeper," we don't know what does.
Beyond Obama, Americans are rejecting what the Left is selling — the idea that government should determine our fate. No, they're saying that individuals should determine their own fate, returning to the core values of individualism that made this country great.
This shift in public attitudes does not bode well for the likes of Obama heir-apparent Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who sermonizes about the virtues of the public sector and the evils of the "rigged" private sector.
Americans are not realigning left, as many in the media have rejoiced. They've just been hoodwinked by slick propagandists — Alinsky's coat-and-tie vanguard — who have to disguise and package their unpopular ideas as "helping the middle class." ObamaCare, which in fact is crippling the middle class, is Exhibit A.
The Obamas and Warrens of the world have to lie and deceive. It's the only way they can sell their socialist swill. It reveals just how bad their product really is.
In his many odes to big government, Obama has waxed Orwellian about how "preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action." He sermonizes about how "we have individual responsibility, but we also have collective responsibility to each other." He insists we have to be "our brother's keeper."
Such warmed-over Marxism is right out of the Alinsky handbook for radicals, the one Obama trained from as a community organizer and the one he still preaches from today.
Obama tells people that it's not their job as individuals to go out and pursue their own life and happiness, but rather the government's job to do it for them. In the classic novel "1984," "ownlife" was Newspeak for individualism — to think and do for oneself without Big Brother's help or approval.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/010515-733278-gallup-poll-confirms-that-americans-reject-obama-unlimited-government.htm