I want to expand what is behind the current administrations drive to destroy another opposing view. Every other ideology, conservatives, Libertarians, Federalist, constitutionalists, you are all in the cross hairs of the modern socialist movement in the United States. To the Obamas and those like minded individuals any thought that speaks of personal liberties, freedom, states rights, capitalism is not just seen as a difference but a dangerous and evil opposition to what socialist want to implement. As we have seen the Saul Olinsky disciples will use any tragedy or missteps by us to pounce and point the finger to demonise conservative beliefs. Just look at what is happening in New York City with Bloomberg.
NYC is beginning to look at what their vision of a modern socialist system looks like. Morals and behaviors are controlled by the state. In New York City, restaurants can't display salt shakers on tables, smoking is illegal everywhere, patients are not allowed to have the pain medication they need, guns are banned, trans fats are prohibited, large soft drinks are against the law. Every aspect of a person life is micro managed by the state. Behavior is also controlled in socialist states through the use of punitive taxes. The majority of earnings of a well to do person are taken away by the state to punish them for their unequal efforts and success. Regulation and over regulation are the key to the power grabs needed to create the fantasy that is a classless society.
Why? I always refer to Dr. Thomas Sowell when it comes to the answer of why. The answer is simple. Person like Obama, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Kennedy's and so on believe that they have been given, wither through evolution or the divine, a special attribute of knowing what is best for human kind. Dr. Sowell calls them the "Anointed". Imagine the arrogance needed to think that you are smarter than the collective millions you govern over. I would suggest to some of these elitist it is a mental disorder. Going around having delusions of grandeur. The word "I" is the most used word in their world. An analysis of the president's speeches last year should how often he used the word I, or referred to himself in his speeches. Even at the funeral of a senator last year he spoke about himself minute after minute. I sense he is started to believe he is a messiah.
We see that these super people espouse that they are gifted with powers we mere mortal will never possess. What they must do, what they feel compelled to do, is to have control over us as a king or a benevolent dictator would. The ruling class getting more and more powerful each day. Those beneath them, captive and controlled by laws, rules, regulations and taxes. We then become a collective not a society, where no one dreams or innovates, we would just exist.