Free Lunch

The “Democrats dependency agenda aims to multiply the ways Americans are dependent on government”.

A remarkable indictment, convincingly demonstrated, in a recent column, “Dems and Dependency”, by George Will.

A partial explanation, of the Democrats rationale, might portray them as merely ruthless, powerhungry opportunists, who simply wish to further their own interest (getting and staying elected) by making themselves seemingly indispensable and therefore politically  unassailable.

The language of social and economic justice (fairness), equal opportunity (outcome based), and positive rights (entitlements) has long since replaced talk of, and a concern for whether we remain a free and independent people.

Should the Democrats succeed in their campaign to corrupt and enfeeble the American spirit, the role and size of government would expand (that was always their intention), becoming more intrusive, confiscatory and inevitably imperious.

But behind the uncomplicated self-interest of the political hack there is the self-righteously ideological hardcore.

The Progressives impulse to “reform”is born of their resentment for a system that has allowed generations to thrive and prosper yet failed to recognize and reward their own, imagined, moral and intellectual superiority.

Left to their own devices (i.e. unopposed)  the Progressives hope to do for the middle class all that they have done for and to their fellow black Americans.

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