Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [137]
The whole idea of insurance is to insure against catastrophes, such as fires, diseases, accidents, or sudden marriages to a Kardashian daughter. But because of government intervention, the American consumer had no choice about whether to pay for everyone else’s shrinks and Viagra. In its infinite wisdom, the government also made it illegal to buy health insurance across state lines to prevent competition. They can’t keep Mexicans out of Laredo, but they can sure keep an Indiana State Farm agent out of Ohio.
Having wrecked the market for health insurance, liberals demanded a national health care system to “fix” the very problems their meddling had created in the first place. As usual, the Democrats’ solution to problems created by government intervention was more government intervention. This is like trying to sober up by having another drink—except at least trying to sober up by drinking more is fun.
And Democrats promised utopia: ObamaCare would provide health care for 30 million uninsured Americans, everyone else’s health care would improve—and their plan would save money! It was a delicious all-you-can-eat chocolate cake that actually burned calories!
Only the mob could believe it. When most Americans objected, liberals explained, We know you don’t want it, but my roommate and I are both Rhodes scholars and we worked it all out on paper. This will turn out fantastically well! As was said of Pol Pot, “It seemed that the only thing needed was sufficient willpower, and heaven would be found on Earth.”7
Frustrated that, in a democracy, they can’t implement their grand plans to save humanity with the ease of a dictator, liberals demonize those who stand in their way. That’s why Americans who objected to ObamaCare had to be anathematized for “obstructing” the plan for health care utopia.
The mob can make a person a pariah in an instant with rumors, outright lies, and the crowd’s trademark smirking. They did it to Marie Antoinette. They did it to Joe McCarthy. They did it to Richard Nixon, the shah of Iran, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Halliburton, Margaret Thatcher, Dan Quayle, Bush I, Bush II, “neoconservatives,” Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Allen West—the list is endless. It’s important to liberals to express contempt for an adversary. Belittling people is pleasurable for them as well as tactically useful.
Instead of “counterrevolutionaries,” liberals’ opponents are called “haters,” “those who seek to divide us,” “tea baggers,” and “right-wing hate groups.” Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals “liberals”—and that makes them testy.
They make wild, lying accusations against conservatives, especially the Tea Partiers—to the point of accusing conservatives of complicity in a liberal lunatic’s shooting spree at a Tucson Safeway that left six dead and a dozen wounded.
They terrorize their political opponents by ginning up psychopaths to physically attack conservatives at the Republican National Convention, conservative rallies, Republican luncheons, book signings, speeches—even at the political opponent’s home. Then they turn around and claim to be afraid of Tea Partiers.
Violence from the Left is never criticized by allegedly respectable Democrats. Generally, it’s not even reported, allowing liberals to go on physically intimidating conservatives without everyone noticing their mob behavior. Just as they forget to mention the entire history of the French Revolution, they forget to report the constant mayhem and tumult being created by liberals.
When liberal activists used fake press credentials to sneak into the 2008 Republican National Convention and disrupt Sarah Palin’s speech, only two newspapers in the country bothered to mention it in their pages—the Idaho Falls Post Register and St. Paul Pioneer Press. The protesters were major Obama fundraisers, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin of CodePink—a group whose raison d’être is to assault conservatives.
After illegally sneaking