this administration views “a collision course with total chaos” as a GOOD thing. If you wanted to destroy the American financial system, what exactly would you do differently than Teh Won has done? Take over large sectors of the economy? Promise no-risk profits and endless bailouts — thus encouraging ACTUAL risky behavior on the part of the bailout recipients? Take advantage of public unrest to force thru massive government control of the financial sector (as recommended by Gramsci)? Piss off every ally we have, while cozying up to murderous dictators? Borrow more money than his “spendthrift” predecessor in 8 years, in just one? And then on top of THAT, commit our government to $2.5T in health care spending, when we’re already maxing out our Discover card to pay off the Visa card which we previously used to pay off the MasterCard — while re-running up the Visa and MasterCard balance too?

These people are not stupid, and they are not insane. They have a reason for doing all of this.

If “you don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid”, then the bigger the crisis, the bigger the opportunity.

We now have Thomas Friedman opining in the NYT that he wishes Obama could be “dictator for a day” to “fix things” — waxing rhapsodic about the wonders of Chinese Communism. We have Woody Allen wishing Teh Won could be “dictator for a few years”. These people — leftists, Obama supporters, Obama administration members — hate freedom, hate our representative republic, and lust after absolute power. Because, apparently, having the White House, an (almost) filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and a huge majority in the House — just isn’t enough, because those office holders, unfortunately, have to worry about the voters too often.

This is dangerous. Dangerous to America.

Of course, this idea did not originate with Rahm Emmanuel. There is a long history of leftist nihilists who espoused similar views, from Marx to Lenin to Mao, who believed the capitalist system must experience complete collapse before the proletariat would rise up and implement the glorious worldwide worker’s paradise through revolution against the failed capitalist plutocrats. They only differed on whether to let “historical inevitability” take care of that, or whether they should…help it arrive through “direct action”.

This has echoes in some Christian cults of the 19th century (and their Gnostic antecedents) who wanted to “immanentize the eschaton” — as well as the radical shiites in control of Iran who want to bring on world global conflict in order to enable the 12th imam to return.

I believe Obama’s handlers WANT to crash the economy, wreck the government’s finances. We view Greece as a cautionary tale; they view it as the goal. After the collapse, then they can pick up the pieces in the chaos that follows, “remaking” America the way it SHOULD be, in their twisted minds. Because they are so much smarter than those old dead white guys like Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Madison… (Obama would really rather rewrite the Constitution as a charter of “positive rights,” because the Founders “made a mistake” in creating a charter of “negative rights”. For a ConLaw professor, he really has no conception of what American govt was constructed to be; the whole POINT was to limit the power of govt, and set faction against faction to separate what little power was granted)