Sheeple in a Bubble

Last week I shared with my radio audience two articles about our country’s decline. One was published by a Russian publication and the other was published by a Canadian publication. The headlines of both articles should have been a wake-up call to even the most liberal listeners:

American Descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed Pravda.com, May 30, 2009

Americans Largely Silent as Their Nation is Systematically Destroyed Canada Free Press, March 24, 2009

The liberals responded by trying to discredit the articles. They were shocked that I would even dare discuss these articles on the radio. “Why are you listening to the Russians and the Canadians about this country?” they would ask.

This was similar to the response a couple of weeks ago when I discussed George Will’s syndicated article about Alexis de Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America published in 1835. Tocqueville predicted what’s happening in America today 17 decades ago. “Why are you quoting a Frenchman?” a caller asked.

When liberals do not agree with an undeniable fact, a logical conclusion or an observation by a foreign source, they attack the source, or ask a question and answer it for you, or resort to the always predictable blame-it-on-Bush maneuver.

Liberals who favor more government, more taxes and more dependence on government are just plain jubilant right now. And those who are in denial that this path leads to socialism and subsequently to Marxism are ignoring history. They are also ignoring the current federal spending crisis.

On the other hand, maybe they are intentionally ignoring history and the coming economic disaster, in order to leverage the ignorance of the uninformed and to keep them in a bubble. That makes it easier to keep the sheeple in an obedient and dependent heard.

Alexis de Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by "an immense, tutelary power (The Obama Administration with 28 czars)". He predicted that it would be a power "absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident and gentle, aiming for our happiness but wanting to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness."

It would, Tocqueville said, provide people security (dysfunctional Social Security), anticipate their needs (universal health care), direct their industries (General Motors) and divide their inheritances (The Death Tax). But softly: "It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them, until people resemble a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

Are we headed for “the government is my shepherd,” I shall not want. I shall not think. I shall not know. I shall not question. I shall not ask. I will just lie down in the green pasture the government defines for me.

The historian Tocqueville saw it coming over 170 years ago. The Russians see it. The Canadians see it. The rest of the world sees it. Even the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez sees it:

“Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right.” (Reuters News, June 2, 2009).

Most Americans and the mainstream media don’t want to see it! They are sheeple in a bubble, and the liberals want to keep it that way.