Euramerica

I could hardly believe my eyes. Someone with widely accepted credibility published words that seem destined to bring howls of protest from the left, thereby confirming that the author has hit a very sensitive nerve.

Nationally syndicated columnist David Brooks is a political centrist who is considered a conservative only because his views are so far to the right of his colleagues at The New York Times. In his most recent column, after reviewing Obama’s breathtaking confiscations of private capital in the interests of healthcare, clean air and the United Auto Workers, Brooks makes this tongue-in-cheek analogy: “These events have heralded a new era of partnership between the White House and private companies, one that calls to mind the wonderful partnership Germany formed with France and the Low Countries at the start of World War II.”

Since it takes no leap to substitute Hitler for Germany in the above quote, Brooks has become the first journalist, to my knowledge, to publicly compare Obama to the twentieth century’s most reviled totalitarian.

Let me be clear that I do not think Brooks considers Obama another Hitler and neither do I. But let’s also remember that the greatest atrocities of the past 100 years were perpetrated by totalitarians who believed the righteousness of their causes justified whatever measures were necessary to impose them on a reluctant citizenry. Those causes mostly involved promoting class warfare, an hostility to capitalism and government redistribution of wealth and income. In other words, all were one strain or another of socialism.

Obama’s vision is clearly along the lines of the European-model welfare state. His means for achieving it are not armies and reeducation camps. Instead he is using his considerable oratory skills, a sycophantic media and, of course, the triple “crises” of economic “catastrophe,” “climate change” and “50 million uninsured.”

No one knows how far he will go, but one thing is already certain. The United States of America will never be the same. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has predicted trillion dollar annual deficits until at least 2019 and that’s based on rosy economic assumptions.

Obama says we are “out of money.” No, we’re deep in debt. Through a combination of increased regulation of all aspects of life, dramatic tax increases which will hit all “working families” and monetization of debt (inflation), we are on the threshold of an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from individuals and the private sector to government. The results for the average American will be less opportunity and a lower standard of living.