Obama is laying the groundwork to destroy the nation to incite a Communist Revolution?
I didn’t say that, now did I.
I said that Lenin put the strategy more succinctly than has anyone else (that I know of). Four words is a pretty succinct statement of a fairly complex notion. It is sometimes deemed a good political strategy to allow (or cause) a societal situation to get worse, in the belief that people will then accept ever more radical solutions as it does, indeed, get worse. Rahm Emanuel’s “never let a crisis go to waste” can be understood as a succinct corollary of the same idea.
It is unimaginable to me that this administration thought it had anything but a fundamental failure on its hands with the health insurance regulation bill that actually got passed. Obama didn’t want what ended up happening, though in a way he did get the “public option” for more people by adding to the Medicaid rolls. The “public option” is basically “Medicaid with deductibles”, so he succeeded in part. But since he wants the whole nation on what really amounts to Medicaid, the next best thing is to have a plan that can’t possibly work AND IS NOT THE ONE HE PUBLICLY SAID HE WANTED. So, when the current plan fails, he can call for what he wanted all the time. And, because people will undoubtedly hate what the current plan produces, and probably at all levels, he’ll have a shot at getting it done. That’s why he attributed all the tweaking and deconstruction that went on in the Senate to the Republicans. They had nothing to do with it, but he wanted to denounce it later (and will) and wanted to implant in peoples’ minds that the disappointing end result was engineered by Republicans, not by his own party.
Therefore, “the worse, the better”. The potential flaw in the strategy, of course, is that people might just recoil from the whole notion of increased governmental involvement in healthcare and wish they were back in the “bad old days” when virtually everybody had health insurance if they cared to have it, had some choices, and at lower cost.
One can be a Leninist without being a communist. Communism is a system. Leninism is a political method. But it would be unfair to Obama not to attribute him with revolutionary ideas. He has made it pretty clear that he wants to revamp society in pretty significant ways. I don’t personally call them communist, and never have. For one thing, Obama is not the enemy of the rich. Far from it.
But I will say that, when it comes to radically changing a society, Lenin was far better at it than is Obama.
