Philosophical Roots of Hillary’s Vision for America

I was glad to see that Mrs. Clinton had officially dropped her $5,000 “Baby Bond” after realizing that it didn’t poll well; I was not at all surprised to see that she had replaced it with an equally odious proposal for piecemeal socialism yclept “American Retirement Accounts,” to be paid for by “taxing estates worth more than $7 million per couple.”

Mrs. Clinton has repeatedly insisted that she’s a political “Progressive” and this proposal is straight out of the Progressive play book--of 1896; as is this quote:

“They will begin to bring down this inequality that is eating away at our social contract.”

Long experience has shown that when dealing with the Clintons one must parse every word (especially “is") in order to discern the real meaning, else one will end up believing that Freedom really is Slavery; at any rate, if one wants to know which “social contract” Mrs. Clinton is talking about, one could do worse than read this fine essay, and this quote therefrom:

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s vision of the social contract, while also noteworthy, included an almost mystic notion of a general will. Such a concept created an unaccountable power elite to interpret and impose this will, by force if necessary.

This is the intellectual foundation upon which the politics of the Clintons, Reid, Pelosi and most of the modern Democratic Party is based. They are the elite, and they know better than the rest of us poor dupes what is in our interest. In my opinion the only thing stopping full implementation of the ideas put forth by Rousseau and his successors is some residual reverence for the Founders (which they do their best to ridicule) and 200 million privately owned firearms (which they would love to take away).

Anyway, that’s my attempt to put a little context to the seemingly endless string of proposed Federal “largesse” from the Clinton camp; they’re counting on the majority buying into “something for nothing” and giving them the power to enforce the “general will,” said will to be interpreted by them and their fellow mystics of muscle.

(Cross-posted at Eternity Road)