This is not the standard cartoon post – last one here – but rather there’s a backstory to the generation of the concept that I want to share as the lead-in to the posting of my latest cartoon concept.
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I just couldn’t stop coming back to this headline:
Over at Fox:
Supreme Court upholds ObamaCare and Americans have lost the right to be left alone
Regardless of what I wrote here concerning the Commerce Clause (it is now longer unlimited) and that Federalism has been strengthened (roping in Federal coercion of the States by ransoming monies that came from the States in exchange for meeting certain mandates), the above hit home – hard. When I heard that inactivity cannot be regulated via the Commerce Clause, I went YES! When I heard no more coercion by the Feds, I went YES! And then what Roberts said about taxation and individual choice, my heart dropped. The headline had it right – they just won’t leave me alone.
One of my regular Internet Doodlings come from TreeHugger. It’s a great site for a Conservative to visit (as loyal ‘Grok commenter C. dog e. dog now frequents those haunts, howling at the entrenched denizens, has learned). They now combine an absolute faith that there is a future of “no future” for any of us unless their Green vision is realized in how we all should live in their Utopia of a pre-modern civilization / Gaia dystopia of a low energy world (and a low level of life to boot). There is that loud stream of “all in for one vision” and we all should have no choice in it. “You cannot live your life your way because if we let you, the planet will die.” Thus, they will do and support anything that will force the rest of us to change our behavior – for them, keeping the planet alive trumps the Rights and philosophy of the Constitution. They will not stop until we live the way they want and as you have seen with some of my recent posts (here and here), they are on the march to make that happen, forcibly if necessary.
From the political side, Obama and his fellow Progressives are also convinced they can create a Utopia here on Earth – and as Obama has said:
“my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country.”
Translation: