Wordsworth nailed it
William Wordsworth, the English poet, died in 1853, making it truly remarkable that he could have commented with such precision on the Obama Revolution. Actually, he was commenting on the French Revolution, which he witnessed first hand. He began as a strong supporter, describing himself as "inflamed with hope." Hope and Change!
Later, Wordsworth saw it rather differently:
Dostoevsky quoted the second passage at the beginning of Crime and Punishment, his novel depicting the destructive effects of leftist ideological intoxication among the Russian intelligentsia of the 1860s. Of course, he couldn't foresee the eventual scale of that tragedy, any more than we can.
There is nothing new under the Sun. When "soft" liberalism doesn't deliver in hard economic times, you might expect a turn toward market solutions. Forget it. Always and everywhere, the Left thrives on crises. Obama is a man of the Left. His program is for a huge expansion and consolidation of Federal control over every area of our national and personal lives.
As always, dependency is the lever, so the trend in job losses and unemployment is key. Obama's "stimulus" program was never a serious effort to tackle the problem of unemployment? Of course it wasn't. A genuine job-creation program could not possibly spend so much money and create so few jobs; in its targets and methods, a genuine job-creation program would not even resemble what Obama put into operation. Now he's resisting a second "stimulus" effort. Well, yes, of course he is, because Congress would force that one to be the real thing.
Byron
O pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood
Upon our side, us who were strong in love!
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very Heaven!
Later, Wordsworth saw it rather differently:
This was the time, when, all things tending fast
To depravation, speculative schemes --
That promised to abstract the hopes of Man
Out of his feelings, to be fixed thenceforth
For ever in a purer element --
Found ready welcome. Tempting region that
For Zeal to enter and refresh herself,
Where passions had the privilege to work,
And never hear the sound of their own names.
Dostoevsky quoted the second passage at the beginning of Crime and Punishment, his novel depicting the destructive effects of leftist ideological intoxication among the Russian intelligentsia of the 1860s. Of course, he couldn't foresee the eventual scale of that tragedy, any more than we can.
There is nothing new under the Sun. When "soft" liberalism doesn't deliver in hard economic times, you might expect a turn toward market solutions. Forget it. Always and everywhere, the Left thrives on crises. Obama is a man of the Left. His program is for a huge expansion and consolidation of Federal control over every area of our national and personal lives.
As always, dependency is the lever, so the trend in job losses and unemployment is key. Obama's "stimulus" program was never a serious effort to tackle the problem of unemployment? Of course it wasn't. A genuine job-creation program could not possibly spend so much money and create so few jobs; in its targets and methods, a genuine job-creation program would not even resemble what Obama put into operation. Now he's resisting a second "stimulus" effort. Well, yes, of course he is, because Congress would force that one to be the real thing.
Byron
posted by Byron | Saturday, January 09, 2010
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