Obama’s transformed America models the French Revolution.
At the end of the 18th century, there were two great Western revolutions — the American and the French. Americans opted for the freedom of the individual and divinely endowed absolute rights and values.
A quite different French version sought equality of result. French firebrands saw laws less as absolute, but instead as useful to the degree that they contributed to supposed social justice and coerced redistribution. They ended up not with a Bill of Rights and separation of powers, but instead with mass executions and Napoleonic tyranny.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration is following more the French model than the American.
Suddenly, once-nonpartisan federal bureaucracies have become catalysts for fundamentally transforming America. Often-ideological bureaucrats have forgotten their original mission. NASA might do better to ensure that our astronauts are independent of Vladimir Putin’s Russian rockets rather than claiming that its primary mission is to reach out to the Muslim community.
Intelligence directors vie with one another to please superiors with fatuous but politically correct analysis. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper assured us that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was largely secular. CIA Director John O. Brennan once termed a now-emerging Islamic caliphate as “absurd.” Former Director of Homeland Security Janet A. Napolitano once warned that returning veterans and right-wingers were the chief domestic terrorist threats, not Islamic jihadists.
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