Ralph Peters brings us this essay in which he discusses the strategy of the left. Regardless of where you may find them, the left is working relentlessly to make as many people dependent as possible, because for them that is the road to power. A free and independent people are of no use to the left, for they cannot be controlled. But if the left can make you dependent on them; make you poor and ignorant, that suits them just fine. Then you are in their pocket. And once they have you there, by God they mean to keep you there no matter what it takes.
In an age of the globalization of everything from bird flu to bad debts, we still try to compartmentalize, pretending that what happens in Athens, stays in Athens. Thus, too many Americans fail to connect the massive attempt at wealth transfer (and wealth destruction) behind Obamacare to the wild irresponsibility of southern Europe’s socialist government models that have led multiple states to practical, if not yet formal, bankruptcy.
But problems ranging from the Democratic Party’s efforts to turn illegal immigrants into still more electoral slaves, to Greek or Spanish demands that hardworking Germans pick up their lifestyle tabs, all have the same roots: The Left’s lust for power and its preferred means of seizing power today: Addicting the least-productive and utterly unproductive members of society to giveaway programs funded by the diminishing number of citizens willing to study, work and pay taxes.
Obamacare isn’t about alleviating suffering. It’s about keeping poor people poor by enmeshing them in a web of addictive hand-outs that keep them dependent on government. Every leftwing “social” program has the ultimate goal of destroying incentives for self-improvement, while piling on the incentives for parasitical behavior.
The left craves power. Once upon a time, it craved power for imagined noble ends. Now it’s just about the power itself. Leftists know full well how soul-crushing conditions are in the ghettos, barrios and poor-white communities in which they confine their supporters, keeping them on a life-support drip-feed of benefits (brilliantly constructed so that anyone who tries to fight their way out of the poverty trap immediately loses multiple advantages reserved for those content to remain willing slaves).
What has our Left done for the poor except to addict them to poverty? What has the European left done for the poor except to promise a fairy-tale ending, only to leave the “workers and peasants” to face the Big Bad Wolves of mass unemployment, endless debt and lifelong disappointment?
