Darrell Issa is set to open the House investigation into the IRS scandal again. Just this week it has been discovered that former candidate for Senate Christine O’Donnell had her IRS information leaked during the campaign. Presumably the Democrats were afraid she was going to win, surely the Vice President wouldn’t want a Republican like her in his old seat. So her tax information was leaked from the IRS. This to go with the IRS targeting the Tea Party for added scrutiny. What’s amazing about this and all the other scandals though is that the public really doesn’t care very much. If Obama has been successful at anything it’s been in creating a collective apathy toward government scandal and misbehavior.
After the Benghazi incident the Federal government forced survivors to sign a non-disclosure statement. In doing so the Obama administration ensured that immediately before an election the survivors wouldn’t be able to talk and potentially make Obama look bad. The TSA is searching parked cars at random in airports all while collecting information on every single call, email or text you make. The DOJ is using its subpoena power to harass journalists. Obamacare is costing people jobs and moving many from full to part time work. Read the news, look at the polls. The country generally doesn’t care about any of these issues.
This is the progressive goal and dream set forth a century ago when they pushed hard for “free” government education. The progressives at the time understood that in order to change the nation they had to pry kids away from their parents. Progressive educators like Horace Mann and Thomas Dewey were quite up front about separating the next generation from our Christian history. We’re now seeing the end results of a century of increasingly horrible progressive education. We have a legion of adults that think nothing of government corruption and abuse, who know nothing of the Constitution or the history of our nation.
The result of that lack of knowledge is apathy towards government abuse. The outrage lasts five minutes before its forgotten again. Obama and company are watching, they know all to well that the country won’t think anything of executive branch corruption. If the country can’t get worked up over the IRS being used in a political manner to target opponents of the President, what will the country get worked up over. Back in the 70’s the country was outraged over the Iran hostage situation. Today we don’t even care if our Libyan ambassador is killed by terrorists much less care if the administration covered their tracks to save the President’s re-election.
The message is clear to Obama and to the next President, especially the next Democrat President. The media doesn’t care about scandal, the public doesn’t care about scandal. You may do as you please, abuse power, ignore the constitution and trample rights to your heart’s content. The people no longer care. We’re too busy worrying about Kim Kardashian’s baby name, the birth of a Royal baby in a nation we rebelled against 230+ years ago and other assorted amusements. The nation is lost, only Christ can bring us back now. Obama didn’t begin the fundamental transformation of America, it was begun a century before him. However he may earn credit for completing the fundamental transformation of this country. We’re no longer engaged, we’re apathetic about government abuse and our rights.
Leo McNeil 