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Mr. Obama isn’t even trying to win votes from those who disagree with him. He isn’t trying to change minds. He is trying to buy votes. He is betting his second term on the belief that there are now enough people dependent upon the government that they will vote for a handout instead of voting for a hand up. He is betting that America has been dumbed down enough and bribed enough to trade our heritage of freedom for the yoke of a guaranteed something instead of the opportunity for everything.

What we are experiencing today is not normal change. This is a top down revolution that is designed to transform America into a social democracy.

This manufactured economic crisis will be used by the triumphant Progressives as proof that capitalism doesn’t work. Then following their play book, since too much government wrecked the economy we need more government to fix the economy.

We are in the grip of an oppressive Progressive Movement that after 100 years of incremental advance is poised to transform America from what she has always been into what they want her to be. … The Progressives envision America as a centrally-planned highly regimented social democracy where the wealth is spread around from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs .

For Barack Obama, the “change you can believe in” entails the transformation of the United States from an opportunity society based on merit and markets to a social democracy that focuses on redistribution and political dominance of civil society. Compromise was anathema to Wilson and is repulsive to Obama when it comes to programs dear to the heart of each:

To think that Greece’s troubles are an ocean and a sea away from where we stand in North America is to have your head in the Mediterranean sand.