In the days following the signing of the crown-jewel of Democratic domestic policy, the Alligator’s Editorial Board, its gallery of columnists and other esteemed members of the media have been touting victory for the president in the 100 Years War for universal health care in the United States.
As a matter of convention, a war must have at least two belligerents.
Who then, is to bear the standard of the defeated?
One would be quick to suggest the Republicans – remember that they hold an inconsequential minority in the federal government. It then becomes clear.
The only other group that has offered any sort of substantial opposition toward congressional Democrats has been the American people, as witnessed in the halls of Congress, the streets of Washington and congressional inboxes.
Though Democrats are quick to raise their flag over “we the people,” I offer this: Health care was not the war but only a single battle in the greater war for America.
And in the war for the preservation of the United States, her people will win the day.
No army whose foot soldiers comprise scores of distant politicians – each scrambling for the scraps from their commander in chief’s table – will be able to resist their collective voice.
Obama continues to express his desire to fundamentally transform America, but Americans do not elect leaders to alter their country.
They are elected as stewards, charged with the singular task of securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.
To suggest otherwise invites despotism.
