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OPINION – The Great Divide: I don't trust the government On healthcare, I’m just one of the ‘mob’ My laborious page-by-page reading and opining on the 1,000-plus-page House healthcare bill has been rendered moot by events and my slow reading pace. It’s now obvious that HR3200 is dead on arrival and likely will never get to even a vote in the House of Representatives. What happened? “Mobs” of us unwashed but brainwashed but mindless undisciplined disciples of Limbeckitty hate radio and FoxRulesCable shows got automated phone calls containing hypnotic triggers and secret instructions on how to pick up our cash payments from the organizers of the vast rightwing conspiracy and dutifully but incoherently marched while slouching like obedient wingnut zombies to threaten innocent public servants who were just trying to hold reasoned town hall gatherings on why the Democratic Federal Government should exercise budget-burying emergency powers to take over national healthcare. In all the heat, smoke, mirrors and blather about why Obama and his minions took such a public relations beating for the past month once details of their takeover plans became public, I’ve not read anyone who has zeroed in on the absolute nature of the great gulf dividing the two camps. It is simply this: Trust. I and my fellow mobsters simply do not trust government — especially this particular administration and this particular Democrat-dominated Congress. We do not trust government to tell us the truth. We do not trust government to act in our individual, personal best interests. We — through long experience and direct observation — expect government to use us as tax-producing fodder to be fed into the ever-expanding bureaucratic machinery that will grind us into dust. We distrusters are children of our Fathers, the Founding Fathers, almost all of whom deeply — even obsessively — distrusted strong central governments. The Declaration of Independence is filled with their loathing of a far-off, unlistening central authority who acted as if it knew best for all its subjects. The Articles of Confederation enshrined their deep dislike of central taxing authority. The Constitution represented their second try at creating a central government with as few powers as possible to loosely govern a diverse collection of individual states. Our Fathers purposely spread out power through three branches, hoping against hope that would offer some protection for the rights of individual citizens — and states! — against an overarching central authority. Supporters of the federal government takeover of healthcare are today’s true believers. The progressives and the socialists and the Democrats actually believe Big Government will be our servant and not become our implacable — even tyrannical — master. In Big-G-Government they trust. And theirs is truly the blindest of all faiths — many of them having no faith at all otherwise — because they maintain their unyielding faith despite all evidence to the contrary: the still un-won war on poverty, the mountains of ever-increasing government debt (no matter who was in charge, Bush or Obama), the clearly inevitable bankrupting of both Big Government social programs — Social Security and Medicare. Against all evidence of Big Government inefficiency and Big Government unthriftiness in running both the Veterans Administration medical system (a direct service provider) and Medicare and Medicaid (administered with nearly infinite red tape by Big Government through third parties), today’s In-Government-We-Trust advocates want to turn over the entire medical system to direct government regulation, control and increased taxation. The IGWT folks will never be swayed from their faith in their high-minded intentions to do their Big-Government-version of what’s good for me even if it kills me. Their good intentions are all that matter. They believe such a rich country as this should be entirely driven by the good intentions of the progressives and the socialists and the Democrats — even if they take all our money to do it. I and the other mobsters and tea-baggers protest the progressives’ ends-justify-the-means social philosophy. And for that protest we progeny of the Founding Fathers have become the hated wingnuts, the scorn of Olbermann-Maddow-Matthews. Isn’t it odd that the folks who scream the loudest about tolerance and diversity turn out to be the most hate-spouting, least tolerant, and hypocritical of all the voices in the public arena? What’s worse: They don’t even recognize their scorn and bitter name-calling as true hate-speech. They are blind to their own gall. I say it again: An increasing number of Americans simply do not trust this government. And you progressives and socialists and Democrats simply cannot beat us or bully us into trusting you or the government. And we will not let you drive over us. I mentioned above the great gulf dividing us. In past decades, political civility served as the bridge between the two camps. That political civility has nearly disappeared, blame whom you will. Without that civility, there are just the two camps warring across the great divide. There has been nothing like this since at least the dark years of the Great Depression and maybe not since just prior to the Civil War. I am afraid — and that’s the correct terminology — that we are nearly there. login to post comments | Cal Beverly's blog
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