The Vast Conspiracy

President Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the military industrial complex. Paranoiacs see Jews, Freemasons, Trilateralists, Bilderbergers, the Illuminati, or some other malign force as controlling events that shape the world. Perhaps, it is simpler. Statists, from your neighborhood pencil-pushing bureaucrat, to your first President Bush with his "New World Order" are bent on advancing government intrusion into your lives. They see their own actions as benevolent even as radio frequency identification chips are placed in every product, people are told they can not smoke in their own apartments, and members of both parties including both Presidential nominees advocate for comprehensive immigration reform which amounts to an open border amnesty. Americans are led by one worlders. The departing President Bush is no jingoist or nationalistic cowboy. He is an internationalist. So is his successor. Obama and Bush are fellow travelers.