When Democrats try to silence opponents, they live down to all of the charges of socialism/fascism that are leveled against them.
They try to stifle discussion by passing legislation quickly, without discussion.
When they fail to ram legislation through, and are forced to actually listen to the people, they call the people "a mob" and write off the many voices of the many people as "only political".
They try to mute insurance companies by "investigating" them when they communicate with their policy holders.
When AARP comes out as neutral on the new health insurance legislation, the administration buys them off by including provisions in that new legislation to remove AARP's biggest competitor health insurance supplement (the most popular one, as AARP is #2). Suddenly, AARP is in favor of health care reform.
They say that they are going to cut budgets and provide transparency, but then fail to report on what they actually did.
When one of the major networks doesn't agree with them, "They're not really a news organization."
The same people that spent 7 years (and counting) criticizing President Bush about "his war" and "not listening to the American people or his critics" are doing everything they can to ignore their critics and the American people.
In fact, it is so bad that the extreme left Saturday Night Live actually made fun of the Democratic "bipartisanship" when Senator Snowe voted for a bill to come out of committee. The joke was "So, 1 vote is bipartisan?"
A healthy democracy allows and even encourages discussion. Socialism/fascism tries to silence critics through marginalization and intimidation. The Obama administration is doing everything it can to avoid actually listening to the American people. And this from an administration that was preaching about unity and bipartisanship in its campaign.
On top of that, the Obama administration is doing what it can to buy people, raising the national debt to amazingly bad new heights.
This is a dangerous warning sign.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
"From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage." - Alexander Tyler
Aloha.
