By Mr. Curmudgeon

Paul Waldman at The American Prospect magazine doesn’t like the direction in which the country is heading – away from the Czarist imperatives of Obama’s “post partisan” rule. In a piece entitled “Why Massachusetts doesn’t matter,” Waldman outlines a legislative path for Democrats to get around the will of the people. Of ObamaCare, Waldman demands Democrats “get the bill done before Brown is sworn in…Though reports about what is in this version are sketchy, it looks to be a considerable improvement on the Senate bill. They have to get a score from the Congressional Budget Office, which takes a few days. Then depending on how the bill is offered in the Senate, a vote could come within a few days after that. In other words, no matter what happens in Massachusetts, if Democrats decide to move things through quickly, we could get a vote on health care within 10 days…” Waldman’s enthusiasm for a kamikaze assault on American public opinion is understandable – he is, after all, a progressive.

The American Prospect’s editors say their publication’s “founding purpose was to demonstrate that progressive ideas could animate a majority politics; to restore to intellectual and political respectability the case for social investment; to energize civic democracy and give voice to the disenfranchised…” It never occurs to them that the “disenfranchised” just happen to be a majority of Americans and a greater part of the voters of Massachusetts, both of whom reject Obama’s health care, bailout and stimulus “social investment.” Waldman’s answer to the animated “majority politics” played out in Massachusetts is to ram ObamaCare down the voter’s throats before Scott Brown arrives in Washington. You see, Brown is a danger because his threatened no-vote on ObamaCare will “give voice to the disenfranchised.” If Waldman and the Democrat’s anti-democratic views sound eerily fascistic, that’s because they are.

In Jonah Goldberg’s book “American Fascism,” he writes:

“…a coalition of intellectuals going by various labels – progressive, communist, socialist, and so forth – believed the era of liberal democracy was drawing to a close. It was time for man to lay aside the anachronisms of natural law, traditional religion, constitutional liberty, capitalism, and the like and rise to the responsibility of remaking the world in his own image. God was long dead, and it was long overdue for men to take His place. Mussolini, a lifelong socialist intellectual, was a warrior in this crusade, and his Fascism – a doctrine he created from the same intellectual material Lenin and Trotsky had built their movements with – was a grand leap into the era of ‘experimentation’ that would sweep aside old dogmas and usher in a new age.”

In his 1932 book “What is Fascism,” Benito Mussolini wrote, “The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone…” Paul Waldman, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama took an old “progressive” project and gave it a new name. You have no need of “harmful freedom” when you have the “deciding power” of “hope and change.”