Averting Soft Tyranny - Why the 2010 and 2012 Elections are Vital to America

[jordan179]

A cry of warning sounded by Joseph Ashby:

From "When tyranny calls," (American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/when_tyranny_calls.html)

History is calling with the warning that tyranny is at our doorstep

Comments

[jane_etrix]

These two sentiments contradict each other.

No, they don't (and you meant to say "arguments" rather than "sentiments", I believe). The first paragraph states that if Obamacare passes, it will create a dependent class who will reliably vote against any attempt to reduce its scope. The second paragraph states that right now the majority of the American public (54% to 35%) oppose Obamacare.

The point is that, once passed, many of those who now oppose Obamacare will make use of it, become dependent upon it, and hence switch to supporting it. In other words, that Obamacare will corrode American resistance to socialism. And that, in order to obtain this FUTURE benefit, Democrats are willing to risk unpopularity now.

The tense shift may have been too subtle for you to see -- sorry, I didn't write the original article.

No, I meant sentiments. A sentiment is an expressed idea or opinion. A sentiment can be expressed while making an argument.

My contention that those two sentiments are contradictory has nothing to do with tense change, subtle or otherwise. I think it's contradictory to claim that something, which is opposed by a majority, will become so quickly entrenched that the architects of the unpopular plan will no longer face opposition by the majority. If this logic were to hold, then no Republican would have ever been elected after FDR.