He just needs to drag them [the American people] to it. Like I just said, they're stupid. Get health care done.

– Comedian Bill Maher, Aug. 25, 2009, on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"

I recently read a posting on a social networking site that made me laugh, despite the fact that it had some truly sad features. It was posted by someone I knew years ago, and she was "discussing" aspects of health-care reform and those who oppose the measures currently being proposed by President Obama and Congress. To her, the entire "health care crisis" is the fault of corporate insurance providers.

Well, she was a bubblehead in high school, so I suppose I shouldn't have been entirely surprised. It was, as I said, both amusing and distressing to hear this woman – a white, middle-class gal – going on like Natasha Fatale from "Rocky and Bullwinkle" about "fat capitalists" with their "fat fingers on the scale," cheating "the workers." Apparently, even the corner grocer, just a guy with a small business, is somehow an evil, avaricious thief. I would add that the health-care situation in the U.S. doesn't even concern her; in her haste to become euro-trash, she actually moved to a castrated, socialistic European nation years ago.

The above estimation – one held by an unsettling number of Americans – reflects two even more unsettling truths: One is that such people possess no sense of economic literacy whatsoever; they are simply not aware of the dynamics of the system in which they live and how it sustains them. Two, they have bought into the belief that those who produce should somehow be in a position of thralldom to those who consume, whether it is a corner grocer or a conglomerate.

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This is a communistic view, of course, and is only one step away from a system in which the state evaluates aptitudes and assigns occupations, as well as redistributing resources, à la Ayn Rand's novella, "Anthem."

Folks who reason – if one could call it that – in that manner, I would say, are the stupid ones, although that's obviously not who Bill Maher was talking about in the opening quote. Maher's diatribe was a quintessential (if rarely verbalized) example of the appraisal progressive elites, in their arrogance and narcissism, have made of the American people. Cosmically anointed, either through celebrity or having ascended via political gangsterism and cupidity, they are now uniquely qualified to determine how the millions of lesser beings shall live.

Other Americans – the un-stupid ones – have realized that we are gravitating with dizzying speed toward the black hole of a B-movie dystopian nightmare. This is being disavowed by Washington and the establishment press; in a perverse double-team effort, they consistently attempt to discredit those who decry relevant developments.

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For nearly 40 years now, the assorted subversives among us have relied upon one essential convention to justify themselves and the doctrines that now threaten to purge all that is fundamentally decent from our midst.

That would be the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Up to now, even the conscientious, constitutionally minded among us have asserted that the aforementioned subversives deserved their freedom of expression in the name of that very Amendment. Unfortunately, it has become clear that the "forms of expression" in which such people have been allowed to engage have maneuvered us to a position in which we are all at imminent risk of losing many, if not all, of our constitutional freedoms. It has also become clear that they capitalized upon their fellow Americans' sense of justice and their own ability to deceive.

They have proven that they no longer deserve our intellectual consideration. Those who have committed to abusing their First Amendment rights by working toward the extirpation of those very protections as they apply to the rest of us should be viewed – and treated, in the arena of public discourse – as enemies.

This recommendation, such as it is, carries no malice. It is simply a consequence, and no different than that which often arises during a "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" debate. If you cuss and throw food, you get to sit at the children's table.

We must resolve to use every moral and legal means at our disposal in disenfranchising those on the political left; those of our deluded neighbors who have followed them can choose eventual enlightenment or political neutralization. The point is that too many of us have stood for far too long on legalism, when we face an enemy that is prepared to either ignore the law, or simply rewrite it.

As it stands now, the question is one of whether or not there will even be a Constitution by the time a number of Americans sufficient to modify our course realize we have put a commie klatch in the White House in the name of honoring the rights of seditious persons.