Obamacare: Incompetence, or treacherous genius? Alan Keyes sees website distraction as part of totalitarian strategy October 31, 2013 Alan Keyes
It must be true that sometimes things are just what they seem. But the elitist faction’s general offensive against America’s liberty has a thoroughgoing character that should warn liberty’s defenders against accepting this assumption without thoroughly thinking things through.
The brouhaha over the Obamacare website offers opponents of Obamacare a gratifying opportunity to vent their spleens in the aftermath of the recently staged funding theatrics in Congress. The funding battle was the first critical chance for Congress to stall the consolidation of permanent government control over America’s health-care system. Is it only a coincidence that the website debacle redirects some of the anger of the GOP’s rightly disillusioned constituents away from the treacherous quislings in the GOP leadership (Boehner, McConnell, McCain et al.)?
The GOP leadership’s collaboration with Obama offers ever more conclusive proof that, under their direction, the GOP has become the political equivalent of a heat sink. It exists to collect, then redirect or uselessly dissipate, the passions, political energy and material resources of Americans who want to restore and preserve constitutional self-government. This keeps the heat of their intense opposition from disrupting the sham partisan process whereby the elitist faction aims to substitute their totalitarian control for what is supposed to be constitutional self-government, of by and for the American people.
I certainly understand the temptation to wallow in the vengeful, if short-lived, pleasures occasioned by the spectacle of Obama’s apparent incompetence. But doing so carelessly could be a fatal mistake. The defenders of liberty could end up like the general who hastily commits his forces to all-out pursuit after what appears to be a break in the enemy’s line of defense. Too late, he finds that the enemy has drawn his forces into a thoughtfully prepared position that dooms them to annihilation.
Here’s the question: Is the competent implementation of socialist totalitarianism better or worse for liberty? . . . . Only by opposition leaders with the will and ability to make it clear that incompetent execution is not the reason many Americans oppose Obamacare. They oppose it because the competent execution of such totalitarian schemes will only more effectively extinguish the life of Americans as a free people, competently executing the nation in another, more tragical sense. . . . ."
In my opinion, assuming incompetence like this ACA rollout is a calculated plot is imparting genius status to fools.
So let's stand back and let the enemy inflict himself with wound after wound, but let's not get so cynical that we attribute this display of ineptness and deceit as the work of geniuses.
Occam's razor says their lies and deceit are not the work of geniuses but rather ideological oafs.
Occam's razor: a scientific and philosophic rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities
There's no longer an anti-war Left. There's only an anti-Right Left
It could be the logical result of a worldview that does not recognize individual talent or competence and believes we are best off ruled by fascists and idealistic ivy tower technocrats.
Or it could be the work of very shrewd evil people, who designed ObamaCare with a view to failure, and who could care less if the web site worked as long as their cronies got paid lots of $$$$$. The ultimate goal would be to steer you into single payer big government run health care.
Either way the failure of the web site does present an opportunity for the GOPe to direct attention away from their failure to defund / repeal the wildly unpopular ObamaCare. Rather than focusing on ObamaCare's assault on liberty they can appeal to the temporary emotional satisfaction of gloating over the web site's massive failure.
I agree with Keyes that the main focus ought to be on getting rid of ObamaCare
It could be the logical result of a worldview that does not recognize individual talent or competence and believes we are best off ruled by fascists and idealistic ivy tower technocrats.
Or it could be the work of very shrewd evil people, who designed ObamaCare with a view to failure, and who could care less if the web site worked as long as their cronies got paid lots of $$$$$. The ultimate goal would be to steer you into single payer big government run health care.
Either way the failure of the web site does present an opportunity for the GOPe to direct attention away from their failure to defund / repeal the wildly unpopular ObamaCare. Rather than focusing on ObamaCare's assault on liberty they can appeal to the temporary emotional satisfaction of gloating over the web site's massive failure.
I agree with Keyes that the main focus ought to be on getting rid of ObamaCare
Well said, Algernon. I think it's a combination of the three, in a perfect storm sort of way, the idealist with fascistic tendencies, the evil people who see those ideals and idealists as being a means to their end, and the complicit, weak Republicans.