{"id":8355,"date":"2013-11-18T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/pelosis-orwellian-mendacity-a-stfu-moment\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T06:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T06:11:00","slug":"pelosis-orwellian-mendacity-a-stfu-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/18\/pelosis-orwellian-mendacity-a-stfu-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi’s Orwellian Mendacity: A STFU Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> from Nancy Pelosi's website (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, ensures that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and significantly reduces long-term health care costs. This historic legislation, in the league of Social Security and Medicare, will lead to healthier lives, while providing the American people with more liberty to pursue their hopes and dreams.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is another good example of an Orwellian use of language.  Americans love liberty and so Pelosi, in an attempt to deceive, works 'liberty' into her statement,  advancing a claim of Orwellian absurdity, namely, that limitations on the liberty of individuals and private entities are in reality enhancements of liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

War is peace.   Slavery is freedom.  Less liberty is more liberty. The Orwellian template: X, which is not Y, is<\/em> Y. 
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Obviously, Obamacare entails a reduction in liberty via its various mandates and penalties for not obeying the mandates.  There is first of all the individual mandate that requires that citizens buy health insurance or else pay a fine or tax or fee.  Obviously, if the government forces you to buy something when you were not forced to buy that thing before,  that is a lessening of one's liberty, not an increase of it.  There are also employer mandates and HHS mandates.  Overview here<\/a>.  I should think that if a man is forced to buy a policy that necessarily includes maternity care, then that is a reduction in cjoice not an enhancement thereof.  But maybe I'm wrong and Big Bro is right.  Maybe less choice = more choice.
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What would Pelosi have to say to be intellectually honest?  She would have to admit that on a progressive scheme such as the one she favors, while liberty is a value, liberty is trumped by the value of (material) equality or 'fairness.'   Conservatives see it the other way around.  This is part of the "conflict of visions," to borrow a very useful phrase from Thomas Sowell.<\/span><\/p>\n

But instead of being honest, Pelosi and many of the rest of her ilk try to have it both ways at once: more government control of one's life and more liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what could be called a STFU moment,  Nancy, you either speak the truth, or STFU.  Nancy has a right to her vision of an ideal society.  But she has no right to her stealth tactics and her Orwellianisms.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say the same to Obama.  Come clean, my man!  Man up!  Make the case for your progressive vision and all that it entails:  robust, 'energetic' government; increased wealth redistribution via government-controlled health care; a retreat from American exceptionalism; a "fundamental transformation of America."  Make the case as best you can and try to respond to the libertarian\/conservative objections as best you can.  Let's have a 'conversation.'  Aren't you guys big on 'conversations'?<\/span><\/p>\n

But if you try t0 win by cheating and lying and prevaricating and bullshitting, then:  STFU.  Man up or STFU.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama and Pelosi and the Dems want us to trust them.  "Just trust us; when the ACA is implemented you will then know what is it and and you will experience its manifold benefits."  If Obama would be our collective mama, then we have to be able to trust him or her.
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Unfortunately, Obama has lied brazenly about the content of the ACA some 30 times, and then lied about his lying.  His supporters have lied and prevaricated and obfuscated as well.  <\/span><\/p>\n

So why should we trust anything Obama or any Dem says from this moment on?<\/span><\/p>\n

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