David Karki

Another day goes by, another tap-dance by the Democratic leadership to try and get the most awful bill in American history somehow through a Senate now officially terrified by its tanking in the polls. I feel like we’re watching the political equivalent of the movie Groundhog Day, with the same events repeating themselves incessantly:

Haven't we been through this already?

Another bad piece of information about the disaster Obamacare would cause comes out. A Democratic or RINO senator disingenuously says they won’t support the bill unless a particular detail is changed (when the only practical way to really do so would be to kill the bill outright). Majority Leader Harry Reid pulls a corrupt parliamentary move to end-run said opposition.

President Obama calls the senators to the White House to both cajole and threaten them in the way only an infantile punk from the Chicago machine can. Witness his despicable threat to close Offutt AFB and bribe to fund a hospital, depending on how Sen. Ben Nelson votes.

And the media, blatantly propagandizing for the bill, dishonestly blames everything on Republican intransigence when they don’t have the numbers to stop a one-car parade, been thuggishly shut out of the entire process, and only internal Democratic opposition prevents passage.

This same nauseating cycle has been going on, day after day after endless day for weeks to months. If anything should be crystal clear from this exercise in abject stubbornness, it’s that there is no reverse gear on the Democratic transmission. They are utterly incapable of even slowing down, much less changing course. Even the proven abject falseness of their ideas – as evidenced by the recent collapse of the house of cards that was the “global warming” hoax – only causes them to sink deeper into a reality that only exists in their minds.

And though they could probably get everything they want eventually if they just went incrementally enough, they have instead become Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (“I want the world, I want the whole world; don’t care how, I want it NOW!”).

Why is this so? I think there are two answers, one political and one more psychological.

The political answer is simple: the Democrats’ moonbat base will accept nothing less the the total forcible imposition of Marxism on America. With the numbers the Democrats have, failure to deliver the whole enchilada will cause campaign donations to dry up and Democrat votes to evaporate next November. And that could be just the least of it; for his initial opposition, Senator Joe Lieberman [I-CT] has been intimidated with recall and even had his wife Hadasseh’s breast-cancer foundation position threatened by the far-left lunatics. Little wonder then, that he’s now gotten on board (presuming his opposition wasn’t disingenuous from the start, that is).

This, combined with the huge backlash from the center/right for even having tried, will result in a total electoral bloodbath.

Therefore, if such a disaster is inevitable, they might as well at least placate their base.  And if there is a short-term loss, so be it. The GOP probably still can’t get the majority back, and even in a worst-case scenario where they do, they wouldn’t have the spine to actually attempt to repeal Obamacare, especially since Obama would veto it anyway. Then the Democrats can get power back come 2012 on an incumbent president’s re-electoral coattails.

This is the political equivalent of a kamikaze attack. Democrats are actually going to openly sacrifice some of their own members (albeit temporarily, in their minds) in order to lay the foundation for something larger – government health care as a thinly-disguised vehicle for dictatorial control of every last detail of everyone’s lives.

Why would they engage in such drastic and reckless tactics?

That leads to the psychological answer: the Democrats’ egos are completely out of control. They honestly think they are the most superior people to ever live, and as such should be able to remake the world into utopia – as they perceive it to be, at least. At minimum, they think of themselves as de facto royalty. At maximum, they think of themselves as godlike (controlling even the weather via “cap and trade”). Either way, they are meant to rule over us.

(Or, to quote an anonymous Democratic strategist: “Because they think they know what’s best for the public. They think the facts are being distorted and the public’s being told a story that is not entirely true, and that they are in Congress to be leaders. And they are going to make the decision because goddammit, it’s good for the public.”)

So much so, in fact, that they think the inherent and obvious correctness of their beliefs justifies whatever measure of tyrannical coercion is needed to forcibly implement it. Or, more simply, that “right makes might.” And all of us stupid little peons need to just shut up, get out of the way, and stop our insipid ramblings about that outdated, irrelevant Constitution thing and just cede totalitarian control to them for our own good.

There is a word for this: megalomania. Webster’s defines it as “a delusional mental disorder that is marked by infantile feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.” The Democrats believe that they should dictate every last detail of 300 million individual lives, that said belief in turn justifies unleashing the force of the state upon the citizenry, and they are willing to sacrifice some of their own to make that happen. If that doesn’t qualify as megalomania, I don’t know what does.

This has some very bleak ramifications for those of us with a normal, healthy sense of humility. For it becomes very clear very fast that there is nothing that will stop Democrats. If even the possibility of a mid-term election drubbing doesn’t faze them, there’s likely nothing in the normal political playbook that will. They have essentially become as single-minded as The Terminator. To paraphrase Kyle Reese:

“Listen, and understand! The Democrats are out there. They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until they are in total control and individual liberty is dead!”

Given this, there is only one ultimate recourse – the same as what was taken at Lexington and Concord in April 1775. I hope and pray this can be stopped short of that. But one way or another, this Democratic real-life incarnation of Skynet cannot be allowed to go live.

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