The Progressives (who had everything going for them last year) have a closing window in order to push their agenda through. November 2010 is eleven months away.
After Richard Nixon defused the 1960s student revolt by abolishing the draft, the brain trust of the revolutionary left shifted its strategic focus to Antonio Gramsci’s teachings, realizing that it is the intelligentsia, not the proletariat, that is the true revolutionary force in society; that cultural dominance, not violent revolt, is the true path to power. A project known as the Great March through the Institutions was launched. Nearly four decades later, in November 2008, it triumphed in a historic electoral victory; the revolutionary wave crested and deposited in the White House Barack Obama, the most radical president in the history of the republic.
It is a favorite parlor game on the right to speculate whether Obama is a free agent or a puppet. Actually it is beside the point whether he is the leader of the “progressive” movement or merely its hood ornament. The point is that the radical left came to power eager to grasp the rare moment when all the stars were aligned in its favor, offering the revolutionaries a realistic chance of achieving their long-cherished goal of turning the U.S. into a European-style welfare state. It was now or never. Full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes!
And so Barack Obama sallied forth to usher in the Age of Aquarius. No one should have been surprised that the man whose entire previous life recommended him as a fervent far-left radical would turn out to be exactly that (after all, the past is prologue). What did come as a surprise to many was his zeal, his devil-take-the-hindmost approach. President Obama threw caution to the wind and at breakneck speed set about remaking America in the socialist mold.
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