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Originally Posted by Slipknot
  Great post, well said
I hope it's not too late to get restoring
"But the basis of and goals for his compromises and the fundamentals of what informed that optimism are passed over as if they didn't exist."
That is sad  |
Krauthammer expresses similar sentiments this morning...
"Government grows in size and power as the individual shrinks into dependency. Until the tipping point where dependency becomes the new norm — as it is in Europe, where even minor retrenchment of the entitlement state has led to despair and, for the more energetic, rioting.
An Obama second term means that the movement toward European-style social democracy continues, in part by legislation, in part by executive decree. The American experiment — the more individualistic, energetic, innovative, risk-taking model of democratic governance — continues to recede, yielding to the supervised life of the entitlement state.
Every four years we are told that the coming election is the most important of one’s life. This time it might actually be true. At stake is the relation between citizen and state, the very nature of the American social contract."
The Choice - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online