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And so the American people have spoken

But what have they wrought?

This is a tectonic-plate election, one of those once-in-a-generation times where people not only define change, but define a new relationship with government,” said New York Sen. Charles Schumer, the lead campaign strategist for Senate Democrats. He added that voters want a government that is “more activist, more involved” in the economy and their lives. “>“This is a tectonic-plate election, one of those once-in-a-generation times where people not only define change, but define a new relationship with government,” said New York Sen. Charles Schumer, the lead campaign strategist for Senate Democrats. He added that voters want a government that is “more activist, more involved” in the economy and their lives. (Link)

The worst case scenario is that the American people--knowingly or not--have given essentially unchecked power to a political party whose leadership’s agenda, if enacted in large measure, would essentially transform American democratic capitalism into Western European-style social democracy. Higher taxes, an expansion of the welfare and nanny states, greater government regulation of business, bailouts for politically powerful businesses with strings attached, elimination of secret ballots in unionization votes, elimination of weapon system programs, expansion of abortion rights, and the left-liberal agenda in the kulturkampf.

I wonder if the American people realized yesterday that they could very well be voting to become France.