Tag: ACA

Professor John Gruber Comments on Obamacare amount to the political and legislative equivalent of a terrorist attack.

All village residents of every political stripe should find his behavior abhorrent, blatantly violative of multiple critical constitutional principles undergirding our small ‘r’ republican democracy. Shall he be forgiven because he is a dedicated political progressive, whose motives are therefore pure and well above reproach? Shall his demonstrably faithless acts, performed over a long period of time but seemingly unregulated by the nagging influence of conscience that constantly operates in the minds of the rest of us who have always loved this country and our fellow countrymen, go uncondemned solely because they were undertaken at the behest of a man, the color of whose skin effectively renders him immune to political criticism? Does the fact of his having been raised in Ridgewood give us his former neighbors special status, relieving us from the need to speak out because of an overriding and certainly understandable desire to avoid doing anything that might negatively impact property values? Or do we choose to remain mute because, despite being the tree from which this particular political apple has frankly not fallen very far, his parents remain our neighbors and true friends?

MIT Professor John Gruber has now clearly shown the world that modern progressive liberals in this country believe, and are ready, willing, and able to act on their belief that their supposedly noble and enlightened political ends justify any seedy, mendacious, ‘big lie’-propagating, Alinsky-inspired, Cloward-Piven strategy-driven means they may wish to employ. Look at the latest video and you will see this horribly corrosive attitude in full flower, revealing not a hint of self-consciousness, but clearly articulated in the context of an otherwise apparently normal panel discussion held before an apparently large but depressingly credulous and sympathetic professional audience. Professor Gruber puts in a performance that should make the cockiest of barnyard roosters and the proudest of peacocks start looking for new respective lines of work. The catastrophically politically destructive concepts he shamelessly propounds have absolutely no place in our culture. And yet, instead of witnessing the entertaining spectacle of his friends and colleagues in the political and professional progressive elite climbing atop and over each other in a mad rush to avoid being seen in the same intellectual zip code as Professor Gruber, which by all that is right and good in this world should be in full swing by now, we are treated to the increasingly familiar, if no less distressing, chorus of crickets.

Professor Gruber’s behavior should be recognized for what it is: naked political jihad. At this point, we cannot continue to regard it as fringe behavior that will fizzle out, a ‘la Bill Ayers and the Weathermen. No, it has significant momentum now, and will surely continue, and likely get much worse, unless and until enough of the rest of us stop taking our beautiful national heritage for granted, and start caring enough about the enormous existential threats now darkening our doorstep to become personally educated on the major issues we collectively face as a culture.