The American people are so ignorant… and ungovernable. They just don’t know what’s good for them. Why can’t they understand that what Obama and the left want to impose on them is in their best interest?
The concept is called false consciousness. That’s when people fail to realize how great liberalism and socialism is– because they have been forced or tricked into believing the evil propaganda of big business.
Just listen to how Obama explains the overwhelming opposition to his Healthcare takeover:
Still, this is a complex issue, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became. I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people. And I know that with all the lobbying and horse-trading, the process left most Americans wondering, “What’s in it for me?” ~whitehouse.gov
Stupid American people, they just don’t understand the issue clearly enough. They just don’t see how compassionate the left is in wanting to be in control of health care. It’s that false consciousness once again. Clearly, when folks think that they can make better decisions about their own lives than government officials and politicians in Washington DC something is wrong.
The irony is that throughout the entire effort to ‘Reform Healthcare’ Obama left it to Pelosi and Reid to do the sausage making and they collectively realized that the less said about what was in that sausage the better. The attempt to ram through their reform without any scrutiny was, in hindsight, a poor one. But I doubt that they will learn from their mistakes.
The answer is, of course, more government intervention in order to combat the lies of big business and root out all the false consciousness out there. What we need is a plan to correct this informational injustice. The Fairness Doctrine is an effort along these lines. Government bailouts/takeover of failing news organizations is another. Registering bloggers may be necessary. Tracking your cell phone and keeping a record of all the websites you visit may be necessary as well.
What Obama, Pelosi, and Reid represent is the worst in paternalistic governance. Welcome to hope and change.
Still, I predict that the people will rise up. The American proletariat are not going to continue to labor under the yoke of their oppressors for long. Ordinary Americans, everyday people, are the government. The one principle upon which this democratic republic is founded is that ‘We the people’ are the source of political power– not professional politicians who see themselves as better equipped to make decisions for us than we are and who assume that we are not clearly informed if we disagree with what they have determined what’s best for us.