Obama Destroying America

The Lonely Conservative posted an interview between Jennifer Harper and Jon Voight about the Obama Administration. The partial text is below or click here for full text.

“We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can’t see this is probably hoping it isn’t true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.”

Be outraged, Mr. Voight advises. [...]

“The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them,” Mr. Voight says. “So I ask again. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?”

Of course, years of socialist government in England have not produced anything resembling a totatlitarian state. But those who argue that this has disproved the thesis of the Road to Serfdom have really missed one of its main points; that the most important change which extensive government control produces is a physiological change, and alteration in the character of the people. This is necessarily a slow affair, a process which extends not over a few years but perhaps over one or two generations. The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that even a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit. The consequences can of course be averted if that spirit reasserts itself in a time and the people not only throw out the party which has been leading them further and further in the dangerous direction but has also recognized the nature of the danger and resolutely change their course. There is not yet much ground to believe that the latter had happened in England.

The truth is scary!