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You Can Have The Most Advanced And Efflorescent Of Cultures. Get Your Politics Wrong, However, And Everything Stands To Be Swept Away. This Is Not Ancient History. This Is Germany 1933... Politics Is The Moat, The Walls, Beyond Which Lie The Barbarians. Fail To Keep Them At Bay, And Everything Burns.

The Liberal Vision Of America Is That It Should Be Less Arrogant, Less Unilateral, More Internationalist. In Obama's View, America Would Subsume Itself Under A Fuzzy Internationalism In Which The International Community, Which I Think Is A Fiction, Governs Itself Through The U.n.

The 2014 Election Has Given The Gop The Rare Opportunity To Retroactively Redeem Its Brand. The Conventional Perception, Incessantly Repeated By Democrats And The Media, Is That Washington Dysfunction Is The Work Of The Party Of No. Expose The Real Agent Of Do-nothing. Show That, When Harry Reid Can No Longer Consign House-passed Legislation To Oblivion, Congress Can Actually Work.

The Peasants Have Seen The Future - Greece And France - And Concluded That It Does Not Work. Hence Their Opposition To Obama's Proudly Transformational New Foundation Agenda. Their Logic Is Impeccable: Only The Most Blinkered Intellectual Could Be Attempting To Introduce Social Democracy To America Precisely When The World's Foremost Exemplar Of That Model - Europe - Is In Chaotic Meltdown.

With Our Financial House On Fire, Obama Makes Clear Both In In His Speech And His Budget That The Essence Of His Presidency Will Be The Transformation Of Health Care, Education And Energy.