Drugged and Deluded

In yesterday's column, I contended that we have been broadly failed by our education system, leaving many Americans vulnerable to being duped. We also have many voters walking around in states of confusion or euphoria, susceptible to the rubbish Obama has been selling. A report was released recently detailing twenty-seven million Americans taking antidepressant drugs. Add to this many more prescribed other psychiatric drugs, the uncounted numbers taking illicit mind-altering substances, and those who live their lives in an alcohol-induced haze and America has a real problem with clouded perception. To slightly alter a term from a best-selling book of a few years back, we have never been a more "narcotic nation". Yet addicted and cross-addicted and alcohol dependent people often exercise their suffrage rights and Obama was the choice for many of them. After all, McCain was seen as "straight" while Obama admitted drug use in his youth in his autobiography. (What forty year old writes two autobiographies?) Beyond that, universal care does actually make some sense to those about to encounter life time caps on their private health insurance and some of those with licit or illegal drug issues have run up tremendous bills for care and rehab. So Obama appeals to them with his empathy, his provision of free drugs for life, man, and the easing of illegal drug prosecutions that would be expected when an Obama has power. A substantial number of Obama voters can simply and truthfully say they were not in their right minds when they cast their ballot. But it is up to the rest of us, sober and informed, and acquitted of our adult responsibilities to safeguard precious liberty. We must recognize that America can not afford to swallow Obama's poison pill. What's good for the drug addict may be the death knell of freedom.