The Agressor State
It’s the perfect name for it. Doc Zero explains why:
Because liberalism defines itself as transformative, it is very comfortable with aggression. This posture serves them well with a public that believes “progress” is inherently positive. The business of building the modern super-state has been a sustained attack, using cultural pressure, legislative power, and the blunt instrument of loyal voting blocs to beat Middle America into submission. The goal of the Left is to convince the middle class to give it the power to do things they would never be depraved or dishonest enough to do themselves. Ordinary people refer to the “redistribution of wealth” as “theft.” If a man wearing a tailored suit and power tie came to your door one day, and offered to take care of your health, in exchange for surrendering all control over your medical decisions to a board of faceless strangers – who also demand unlimited control over every part of your life that might conceivably impact your health – you’d slam the door in his face and call the cops. If you caught someone writing himself a $4000.00 check from your checkbook, and he explained he needs the money as tribute to his Church of Global Warming so they can save the world from an imaginary evil, you’d shoot first and call 911 later. The mission of the Left is to convince people that all of these outrages become virtuous when elected officials perpetrate them. After all, “they won.”
The Left phrases everything in the most urgent terms, because offense requires initiative. Everything it does is an assault that must be launched immediately, with every moment of delay helping the enemy…and the Left has an insatiable hunger for enemies. It prefers those enemies to be faceless, because that also makes the enemy voiceless: white racists, the Evil Rich, Big Business, Wall Street fat cats…You can tell the Left is getting desperate when it starts naming its targets, as with the weird tirades Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama launched against insurance companies and tonsil-stealing doctors, respectively.
Because it is perpetually at war, the Left is quick to turn personally vicious. No weapon was too cursed or cruel to use against Sarah Palin. An inconvenient Inspector General is declared senile, so he can be swiftly disposed of. Rush Limbaugh’s patriotism is heatedly questioned. Dick Cheney is the devil. Those who oppose cap-and-trade are “traitors to the Earth,” as Paul Krugman put it. The spray of vitriol would have been splashed over more targets if Palin hadn’t been around to absorb so much of it.
We have arrived at a moment when the Left has complete control over every branch of government, and the government has completed its metamorphosis into the Aggressor State, declaring war against its own citizens. It’s no wonder the Obama Administration is so half-hearted and inept at foreign policy – it has little time to waste on foreign threats, because it sees too many enemies inside its own borders. Every foreign policy incident since January has seemed like an annoying distraction to Obama, whose dealings with both allies and adversaries abroad have the character of a man sighing and checking his watch, eager to get back to the important work at home. The declared enemies of this Administration include insurance companies, heavy industry, oil companies, talk radio hosts, banks, citizens who ask inconvenient questions, and everyone making over $200k per year. That’s a formidable order of battle. Who’s got time for oppressed Iranians when you need to defeat half of America to advance your agenda?
Saying “read the whole thing” about anything Dr Z writes just seems superfluous.




