Obviously, there is blind party allegiance aplenty on both sides of the political divide in our nation. However, it is apparent that the upsurge in popular concern for the sharp turn our government has taken toward the left (courtesy of the current administration) is occurring among the majority of non-dogmatists in between.
Efforts to characterize all those who are troubled as members of the radical right, while disingenuous, are not entirely surprising. The success the Obama administration (as well as the left in general) has had, in concert with an ideologically kindred establishment press, in promulgating the most outrageous and dangerous fabrications and falsehoods cannot be underestimated. This is demonstrated by the fact that a great many intelligent and conscientious Americans remain quite oblivious, even regarding the administration's more overt machinations.
The reason for this upsurge in popular concern is that a considerable number of Americans realize the magnitude of the change that is taking place (no Obama marketing pun intended) and its potential for detrimental, life-changing outcomes. As such, the rebellion against it has been the sort of phenomenon unseen since the Civil Rights Movement. More importantly, these citizens are quickly identifying and openly discussing the administration's maneuvers, which flies in the face of the left's appraisal of the American people as vapid and dull. More than one might surmise are seeing clearly through to the ugly endgame.
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One of these maneuvers was the recent announcement that the Preventive Services Task Force of the Department of Health and Human Services is recommending against regular mammography tests for women aged 40 to 49, and rather advocating mammograms for women aged 50 to 74, and then only once every other year.
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Apparently, some of the scientists involved in the "research" that led to these findings were among those who testified for the tobacco industry some years ago. You remember – the ones who all but declared that nicotine is a vitamin.
There are likely to be many readers who are well aware that such a protocol will spell a death sentence for an inestimable number of American women. Early diagnosis has been the medical community's mantra for decades toward saving women from the ravages of that disease. Now, because the Obama administration wills it, conventional medical wisdom and procedure may change. Behind the ardent push on the part of the White House and Congress to pass health-care legislation, which many have argued will necessitate health-care rationing, Americans perceived this as a precursor of the rationing to come and the Preventive Services Task Force as a nascent "death panel."
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Socialized medicine has not yet become a reality, but the indications that it will are blatantly apparent – which simply means that the far-left swine in Washington are quite confident in their ability to continue their deceptions and execution of their policy indefinitely, something I've asserted before.
The government's intention to force Americans into a position in which the lofty, wise state shall cavalierly determine who receives health care is not only immoral, but unconstitutional. As it turned out, more Americans than the Obama administration expected were not only aware of it, but willing to do something about it.
Then, there was the establishment press's vigor in the area of vilifying former Alaska governor and John McCain running mate Sarah Palin. Even before the Associated Press tasked 11 of its staffers to fact-check her new book, "Going Rogue," the news media's obsession with discrediting Palin gave many Americans pause. Their aid to the far left in promoting its dim view of her has been far from unnoticed. Indeed, so much was made of Palin's less-than-stellar interview with The Dark Elf (CBS' Katie Couric) during the 2008 campaign that we are still hearing about it, despite that between Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, the campaign was a veritable Gaffe Central. The point is that Americans noticed that the bar for consistently cogent communication on Palin's part was much higher than it was for Obama and his running mate.
And they realize now that we are living in a profoundly dangerous time.
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These two indicators are among many which suggest that the left not only wishes, but intends to maintain its current level of control in Washington – whether or not it is via the Obama administration ushering in an era of emperors, as occurred in Rome.
I could go on, but you get the idea. The Obama administration has made comprehensive and treacherous moves in practically every area of domestic and foreign policy, despite the apparent dangers associated with riling such a large segment of Americans. This is their day; they realize that if they fail to employ as many of their oppressive, destructive schemes as possible before the midterm elections next year, they might never get the chance.
And that speaks of dangers above and beyond the deleterious ones that the policies themselves hold for America.
