Could Obamacare be the Coup de grâce for Battered Liberal Syndrome?

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Years ago I was talking to an uncle who happens to be a martial arts expert. He told me a story about being in a bar when a man started beating the heck out of his girlfriend. My uncle being my uncle, he intervened and separated the two. As he’s standing there confronting the abuser, he was attacked from behind by the girlfriend…

You hear about things like this all the time, a version of what is called “Abused Woman Syndrome” where a woman is abused by a man but continues to stay with him, and as in the story above, often defend him. Often the woman’s friends and family try and convince her that he’s bad for her, but while she admits he has his flaws, she loves him and she knows things are going to get better.

Conservatives in America today find themselves in a situation similar to the one my uncle did, but the difference is, it’s not battered women that we face, but rather it’s battered liberals, and the abusers are the politicians in the Democrat Party. And while the liberals continue to stay in and empower the relationship, it’s everyone in the country who gets abused.

The Democrats have been abusing the American people for decades, and we have the scars to prove it:

Education in the United States is a train wreck. We spend more than any country on the planet on education and yet we trail most of the developed world in math, science and reading scores. Not only are students not learning the basics, but more importantly they are not learning to compete in, survive in and thrive in the real, competitive world.

Prosperity and economic growth are being strangled. In the 1950’s when the Federal Register (list of federal regulations) averaged less than 10,000 pages a year the American economy grew at an average annual rate of 4.6% a year (after inflation) – at which rate it would take you 15 years to double your income. Over the last decade when the Federal Register has weighed in at 78,000 pages a year, GDP growth has shrunk to 1.5% annually – at which rate it would take you 48 years to double your income. That means that the GDP growth – read prosperity – has declined by 65% as the Federal Register has grown by 800%.

The number of people on welfare is greater than the number of working people. The workforce is at its lowest level in three decades and those among the Democrat base (women, minorities and youth) are the most adversely affected by all of these issues.

On these and a myriad of other issues the Democrats have been abusing the American people (and in particular their own base) for decades. Nonetheless, when faced with the evidence of the Democrats abuse in the form of failed policies, they always have an excuse. Republicans want to cut education or kill Grandma or destroy the environment or let companies abuse their employees, etc. etc.. And of course the Republicans hate women, workers, blacks, immigrants and basically everyone who’s not rich and white.

And now we have what is potentially the most important event ever in the sordid history of the Battered Liberal Syndrome: Obamacare. Not only was it proffered on a false premise in the first place, it has been nothing but lies since: “If you like your plan you can keep it.” “Premium reductions will save you $2,500 per year” And the lies keep coming: “It’s the fault of the insurance companies”, “You’ll come to appreciate the better plan”, and of course the obligatory “We had no idea any of these problems would crop up.”

For so many years Democrats lied about practically everything as the failures of their policies came home to roost. Because of charlatans like Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, and Barack Obama they could deflect blame to others for their failures and come out unscathed. But with Obamacare they are facing a different scenario all together. They own it lock, stock and barrel.

They passed the legislation on their own. They wrote the regulations. They built the website. Obama wrote the exemptions. They managed the entire process from A to Z, and they lied about every piece of it all along the way, and none more so than Barack Obama himself. As such, as the entire thing melts down there is no way for them to deflect the blame. Conservatives and many Republicans have been saying for three years that Obamacare was going to be an abject failure, it was going to cost jobs, it was going to drive up healthcare costs and it was going to expose citizens to chaos as government sought to control healthcare. All of those things have come true, and more is on the way.

The failure of Obamacare doesn’t just expose the failure of one program, but rather the failure of the Democrat philosophy in general that all things can be made right and good by simply writing a piece of legislation, throwing money at a problem or by putting the government in control. The failure of Obamacare is just a most explicit version of the policies that have brought us failing schools, the mortgage collapse, green energy sinkholes and countless other failures. The difference is, the only fingerprints on this debacle are Democratic and for the first time in history their failure is being seen as theirs alone. This is partially due to the fact that even the complicit mainstream media can’t cover up a disaster of this magnitude as Americans are seeing their plans cancelled, premiums and deductibles rise, all while choices and jobs evaporate.

Is it possible that Obamacare could be the Coup de grâce for Battered Liberal Syndrome? Perhaps this train wreck will be the incident that finally begins to shake battered liberals out of their blind devotion to the Democrat Party and liberalism. Maybe they will finally step back and look at the bigger picture and recognize that it’s results that count, not soft Democrat whispers of how it’s really someone else’s fault, how they’re just trying to make things better or fair and that they really care. You have to think that after years of battery at some point soft whispers and “good intentions” no longer matter and results finally do. At that point perhaps discussion will turn to the damage that invariably occurs when government seeks to control everything. Maybe 2013 is that point. Perhaps Obamacare is the catalyst… If so there might end up being a silver lining after all.

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I hope you are right but the rest of us have been “battered” so long, I’ll have to see the Libs turn on their handlers to believe it.

I appreciate your optimism, Vince.
I once knew a battered woman (before he KILLED her!)
One day she was waxing nostalgic about all her jewelry.
He gave her this diamond necklace after he broke her jaw.
He have her that ring after he knocked out two of her teeth.
He gave her the bracelet with the rubies after he broke her arm.
She never did leave him.
And he might already be out of prison for causing her to die in a fall down a flight of stairs.

Democrats get goodies that make up for the abuse, too.
I notice the loneliness of the woman whose son is killed by the drive-by in most Dem-majority inner cities.
Just as Obama thought he could make light of those FEW millions who would pay more for medical insurance, she is just a weak or old or lame gazelle at the edge of the herd as it is preyed on by a lion.
Do Americans care about one another enough to look at others’ problems as their own?
Tytler (probably) wrote:

The historical cycle seems to be: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; from apathy to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more.

Also:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.
After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship.

Caring beyond one’s own interests seems to be a thing of the past.

And the fool indicates he wants s third term-direct violation of the Constitution. piece of trash could care less.

It’s supremely important that conservatives tie this healthcare scam to DEMOCRATS in general, not just Obama. It is actually true since it was implemented by a solid vote from dems and not one republican vote. They implemented it, make them own this turkey.

@Doc: You’re exactly correct. This is where Republicans fail-they can not get their message out. Plus, now with the dissention among the ranks, the message will be even more incoherent.

@Tired American:

This is where Republicans fail-they can not get their message out

Up until recently, there have been no Republicans with a message. Time after time, those who have considered themselves “Republicans” have been offered liberal squishes like Dole, McCain and Romney as an answer to the liberalism being marched across our nation. And with the few “Republicans” who are willing to promote true conservatism, they are being attacked by their own party. The national GOP is nothing more than the Rovian Party of Go Alongs to Get Alongs, conservative while they are campaigning, then, once again, turning into French Republicans.

Ace, at ASHQ, had a great article on how to change the dialog. People would rather think of themselves as victims, than stupid. So all those people who voted for Obama, and his socialist ideals, should be told by Republicans “Hey, we understand you wanted to believe in the Democrats. But you were lied to. You are a victim of the Democrats.” LIVs would buy that because they would not have to accept responsibility for being LIVs.

But another thing; all the McCains, and Grahams and Collins should be eliminated in primaries. It is about time we let the GOP know that the Roves are done. And as to the dissention in the GOP, don’t think it is not coming in the DNC, as Mary Landreiu takes to the podium to complain how what they passed in the ACA is NOT what Obama is doing. As Democrats, who are running the risk of losing their seats, distance themselves from Obamascare, and Obama, the dissention among their troops will surface.

The latest obama lie is that your health care insurance policies are being canceled because they are inferior. The lies continue and will continue with the majority of the MSMs support.

This won’t matter to the liberals at all. Just think of the hundreds of disaster recently and in the past. Nothing affects their self righteous point of view. They will ALWAYS be right no matter what.

What did Ed Asner say about Syria? Was that justa small misstatement. No that was total blindness to reality. And that is their their only way of survival.

Looking at the results of the Virginias Governors race, I’ inclined that the battered voter syndrome is a myth. Oh and for all of the third party supporters, great job, you just elected a Clinton/obama flack.

‪Jon Stewart RIPS Obama‬ (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIHhmLNjS8c#t=14

Surprise, Surprise… Media Lying to Us About Another ‘Obamacare’ Horror Story (Video)
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/surprise-surprise-media-lying-us-about-ano