Moral Ignorance Cripples Obama

Alexander Grass / American Thinker

To govern Americans, it is helpful to understand them.

In our country, there is an abiding faith in not only in the culture of liberty, but also in the protection of personal rights provided by the Constitution.  President Obama respects none of these principles, and has at the same time been successful in denigrating them. In expanding a welfare state that had previously been rolled back (rather modestly), in placing the healthcare sector of the economy under the corrupt administration of the federal bureaucracy, and in receding from the role of promoter of freedom in an increasingly volatile world, Obama follows the thought process of his leftist academic forebears.

In the long run, it matters less to the President whether or not he achieves tangible legislative or political victories right at this moment. More so, it is the object of Obama’s maneuvering that he should change the American political culture in such a way as to cause a fundamental shift in attitude amongst the electorate later on. In that sense, Obama is achieving everything he has every dreamt of, and more.

Mitt Romney — now quite infamously — said at a fundraiser in Boca Raton “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what…who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. …These are people who pay no income tax. …and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Well, then.

Was he wrong? Are those members of the entitled mega-plurality of the population voting for anyone but themselves?

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