Published: August 30, 2009 12:34 am      

Hush, Peasants

I am sick and outraged at voters showing up at town hall meetings to confront Congressmen on their noble efforts to finally bring about government run health care. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big believer in free speech but only so long as it moves the country forward in the right direction. But seeing my personal hero, Barney Frank, have to suffer the indignity of listening to angry voters in the supposedly liberal state of Massachusetts is more than I can bear.

There’s a reason socialists throughout history have had to limit free speech and free press. Just as we’ve seen this month in town hall meetings across America, the unwashed rabble just doesn’t understand what’s good for them. That’s why enlightened progressives must limit free speech that hurts the overall good. You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet.

There are many ways this can be done. Since America’s not ready for the heavy-handed approach used by socialists like Lenin, Mao, and Chavez, we liberals will have to use less overt means. For starters, all Democratic Congressmen should stop attending town hall meetings unless the audience is hand-picked and questions pre-screened.

It’s downright embarrassing for a Democrat to have some working-class citizen ask if they themselves were willing to give up their Congressional health care plan for the one they were proposing for everyone else. Of course they’re not and it’s disrespectful to ask. Members of the Congress and their staffs are busy, important people. They cannot be expected to make appointments months in advance, spend hours in waiting rooms, and fill out complex government forms to justify medical procedures.

Even in a pure socialist state there must be different classes of people. Someone has to run the worker’s paradise. If those at the top were deprived of the perks that come with high office, they might not want to stay indefinitely and we’d lose their valuable experience. In my opinion, it’s far better for the country to keep our Democratic majority intact in order to continue the government takeover of health care, banking, insurance, and the auto industry.

President Obama’s progressive agenda moving us toward European style socialism is too important to be side-tracked by taxpayers asking how much all of this is going to cost. You can’t put a price tag on cradle to grave health care for illegals. Besides, why worry about the cost? Most of you peasants aren’t going to pay it. Democrats are only going to raise taxes on the rich.

Unfortunately, too many Americans just don’t get how good a deal socialized medicine would be.