22-12-2011, 07:06 AM
Bruce Clemens Wrote:I was with you until I read:
Have you noticed how much the Republican Party has embraced the North Korean concept of self reliance? This is a political party that is hoping to overturn Obama's health care plan, in favor of allowing the country to continue on its path of destruction, wherein no one but the privileged few and wealthy have access to medical care.
I assume that sentence is in support of ObamaCare?
Don't you see the irony here? Obama's health care plan would fit right in to Kim Jong Il's Korea. The State requires you (at the point of a gun) to buy a product on the "open market" that you may not want to buy. From a private company. In other words the State forces me into a contract with another citizen against my will. How can this square with the pro-individual rights point you otherwise seem to be making in your post?
Self-reliance isn't bad. As long as there is no Federal Government, or no Korean "Dear Leader" to step in and skew the game. In a truly free society there would be no need for Obama's damn health care plan. If we need Obama to fix health care then what we really need is to release ourselves from the North Korea that we've slowly become.
Bruce, please note that I did not author this article. It was from "Numerian." Second, Numerian's notion of self reliance is that it is a term used by a totalitarian leader to lie to his people. Even while the privileged life style of the totalitarian leader and his cadres goes on, the average person is told they must persevere and be self reliant.
Third, note that Numerian argues that we should abandon the left-right binary. I understand him to be saying that increasingly governments are moving towards a totalitarian model in which citizens are both taken advantage of and lectured to be self-reliant. Although I am not at all willing to equivocate Obama with the "Dear Leader," I do recall Obama early in his term telling the American public that he was confident that their spirit would win out in these difficult times. Interesting considering they had little to do with the disaster that was brought on by TBTF banks. I think that would fit with Numerian's argument that governments are moving more and more to a totalitarian model.