It is November 15th 2013, and the coroner has pronounced American Progressivism dead on arrival. The champions of media at CBS, NBC and ABC are running stories about White House lies, rumors of the President selling us a healthcare reform law predicated on a lie are swirling.
A website that was supposed to help us find healthcare doesn’t work and when it does, the things it finds aren’t very affordable. The champions of the old left like Lanny Davis, Bill Clinton and Jaques Berlinerbrau are shouting “Take cover!”
It’s absolute pandemonium on the left right now, rumors of a civil war inside the party abound, serious talk on the left begins of over-ruling the President’s veto on a plan to let Americans keep their cancelled plans begins to foment. But how did we get here?
Progressivism. You know its name, it started around the turn of the previous century and began a upward thrust towards larger government and cradle-to-grave spending during the Roosevelt Presidency (1933-1945).
The ideology that makes up the professional far-left is a package of ideas which praises the success of a whole unit over the death of its individual parts.
The left is not like us, we have heroes, ideals and respect for the masses as well as the individual man, woman or child. Liberals above all other things prioritize their ideology over the individuals who champion them. The sum of Progressivism is not vested in one man or one speech, as we are with Reagan and Lincoln.
Progressives are far more ready and ever-willing to throw a man or woman to the sharks to save the group and the mentality.
For nearly the entirety of the last century Progressives spent time and effort building an ideology and a base until they were successfully able to overcome the Democratic party and capture the minds and hearts of everyone in the Post-Kennedy era.
Since then, Progressives and Liberals have sought to reform our healthcare system, to fundamentally change it in a way that would be recognizable only to the Danish.
In 2008, with a Democrat majority in the Congress, and a Progressive finally elected President, it seemed there could be no end in sight to what they could accomplish. Barack Hussein Obama was elected President and the national talk of transforming America began.
This was their house finally. The Affordable Healthcare Act was signed into law by President Obama in of March 2009 and in 2010 the Supreme Court of the United States of America verified it as constitutional. It seemed impossible that change could not come to America now.
Things being as they are in Washington, even change and transformation does not stop nepotism it seems, and the contracts to build the government’s official healthcare purchasing portal Healthcare.gov were farmed out to a friend of the President’s wife. The website was built and it was a complete and unmitigated disaster. A website to contend with over three hundred million citizens demands for healthcare can service only a few dozen at most.
And then the bleeding started …
NBC Investigative reports fired the first shot, like that one at Lexington Green it was heard the world over. The President …OUR President might have lied to us. Would the President lie to even the moderate and casual leftists to get a signature idea passed? The answer is yes.
Then it began, CBS ran a story stating the President and Centers For Medicaid and Medicare knew years in advance that most Americans couldn’t keep their policies. ABC ran a story that the President personally knew of this because he met with HHS Secretary Sebelius the day after the report was announced.
As of today the Progressives are in full retreat and the Left is looking to salvage Obamacare’s ruined corpse into something it can still make a victory of any kind. The media antagonism towards President Obama is no surprise to me. Progressives value ideology over men and when push comes to shove, Liberals would much prefer to have Obamacare than Obama the man. So now that the squeeze is on.
The ship is going down. Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote and now the stink of Obamacare is on every Democrat. The stakes have never been larger for Democrats. At stake is whether or not the sum of nearly a century of work towards Universal Care can be successful.
Surely in a hundred years, scholars will look back at this and ponder what might have been done to salvage the Affordable Care Act. What might Obama have done differently? What might he have said? Should this legislation have been a second-term agenda like Hillary suggested? Perhaps we will never know.