The Arrogance of the Left

This week we have been treated with the story of a video speech by Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist and architect of Romney-Obamacare. In case you missed it, what follows is an excerpt of what he said last year at a conference regarding the ACA law:

"This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO [Congressional Budget Office] scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass....Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not."

(As an aside, isn't it deliciously appropriate that he has the same last name as the very stylish and arrogant villian, Hans Gruber, in the first and best "Die Hard" movie?)

PAY ATTENTION TO ME ON THIS: He is not saying we are stupid in general. He is saying we are too stupid to know what is good for us. Only "people of the left" know what is right and good. We cannot be allowed to exercise our right to protest and to undermine all the things they want to do to.....uh, for us. So, we must be deceived.

The last sentence in the excerpt above says it all. He'd rather have this law than not. Really? This tortured (his word) monstrosity that is forcing businesses to choose between having full time employees or paying exorbitant medical insurance costs? The increased premium costs that will be bankrupting most if not all of the middle class and is driving doctors to retire early? How about all the self-employed people who lost their health policies last year due to this monstrosity? Does it make any impact in his arrogant little mind that some of those people were in cancer treatments or other dire circumstances? No, let me tell you right now, it does not. Because, this law is for the "greater good". Individual circumstances do not have any impact on a leftist. The political benefits, the POWER, was much more important to the typical leftist than anything else.

Again, calling us "stupid" is not surprising in the least. The left calls the American people this in different ways, many times per day. However, it is striking to me how he admits that they all had to lie to ensure it passed. This lets us know that he doesn't think we are too stupid to realize how bad the law was and is. If they realized deception was needed, they knew we were going to protest it and it might not pass. He is saying that the fact that we would protest this law at all is what makes us stupid. We just don't get how much more they know about what is good for us. And, that they would do anything to ensure it passed. Makes one wonder what kind of pressure was applied to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in the months prior to June 2012, hmmmm?