The Anchoress hits dead center on the Left's longing for dictatorship with their chosen ones in charge, "The Privileged Call for Limited Dictatorships."
Let’s allow Obama to be dictator "for a couple of years," because that preening narcissist will certainly give up his dictatorship once the nowhere-utopia of which the left dreams is achieved. Right? Of course. ...Read the whole thing, but I'd like to point out that there has never been any such thing as a "limited" dictatorship.
They propose dictatorship because they know their lives would be completely unaffected by such a thing. They will still have access to their Park Avenue doctors; they will be exempt from the rationing of medical treatment that the Obama administration now admits will take place. They will continue to be the privileged useful-idiot voices of the politburo. They will still have their limos and their lunches, where they will sit together and bloviate about what must be done for the commoners who cannot be trusted with their own lives.
I've said it until I'm blue in the face: the Left is inherently dictatorial. They neither know how to govern truly democratically nor do they see why they should. The curtain was peeled back clearly on this last December with the thankfully-abortive efforts to ram through the Copenhagen climate treaty.
... the aim [was] literally to set up a world government, which is made explicit in the language of the treaty. As Britain's Lord Monckton, former chancellor of the Exchequer, explains, the Copenhagen treaty is designed to eliminate true national sovereignty altogether, especially that of the United States.The Left has by no means given up this goal.
Understand: "saving the planet" is not the point of Copenhagen. The point is to compel wealth transfers from rich nations to everyone else and to institute a new class of global elites who get to tell everyone else how to live. Global warmism is a political movement joined at the hip to the two things that lubricate political movement everywhere: money and power. In the US alone, "The Global Warming Science Machine: $79 Billion and Counting," for example. And as Lord Monckton pointed out, the new global government desired by the treaty's backers will definitely not be a democratic one. You and I do not get to choose who represents us nor will we have any say in how they will dictate our lives.
What the Copenhagen treaty will do is set up a new nomenklatura of bureaucracies and factotums and commissioners, providing them with near-unlimited political power, a luxurious lifestyle and upward mobility for their children and political allies. If you think this sounds like the old Soviet system writ global, you're right.
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