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Acquiescence

The progressives need something from the producers now, from the people who actually make the economy work. This will be tone of the propaganda arm of the American government now that the Health Care Bill is passed.

It will start as a new focus on the economy, and it will essentially come down to an appeal to the investors, innovators and business people that the deal is not all that bad and they will get used to it, and, nudge-nudge, wink-wink, they will find ways to make it all work in their favor as they normally do. Let’s all get along. It is now the law of the land and we might as well get used to it and get back to work.

In their heart of hearts the progressives know that nothing will work and the entire thing will be a disaster both politically and economically if the people are not on board, particularly those who shoulder the burden of generating wealth and jobs. The progressives need the hard workers in order to have someone to tax. They need the wealth creators in order to have wealth to use to support their schemes. It would have been so much easier if the Republicans had been on board, even one, so that they could have claimed bi-partisan support and given those producers a false sense of normalcy to what they have done.

But for the moment they are on their own and between now and the November elections they want to cajole the producers into to putting the economy back into gear. The state supporting media will be awash with this kind of programming, as they try to persuade the freedom loving people to help weave their own noose. Acquiesce. That is all that is required. Submit to it. Help the country out. Be patriotic they might even suggest, if Joe Biden’s record is any measure.

Ayn Rand’s description of this process in Atlas Shrugged will be acted out, played out by the progressives in frightening detail. They cannot help it. Already this process has mirrored so much of what Rand wrote that it is almost prophetic. And many of us thought her characterizations to be exagerations for effect. They will try to guilt the producers into playing along with their agenda, just until they can hit them hard again with another economic blow, assuming that the producers will just get back up and into harness again. Watch closely for the Galt effect. It has already started and will only accelerate.

And watch for their next pitch. Acquiesce.

MARCH 23 EDIT: Here we go! This from Time Magazine, offering advice to Republicans on how to be successful. Don’t fight the Health Care bill, you’ll only get hurt. As if Time Magazine has ever cared about the success of a Republican!

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