Twenty-five years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, and with it, the belief that communism held anything but oppression, stagnation, tyranny and evil. Why – after lessons we have learned from others – are we headed toward the same mistakes, thanks to the man voted into the highest office in the land?
Robert Kaufman, a professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, writes in The Daily Caller:
President Obama has governed as if the Reagan presidency, pivotal for bringing down the wall, represented an unfortunate deviation from the progressive path of greater government control at home and diminished American power abroad. …
The president has put the United States on a path to become a Western European type social democracy at the very moment that model has proved unsustainable. …
The nanny state, in Margaret Thatcher’s scornful appellation, seeks to impose what Tocqueville called soft despotism where government supplies all our needs and wants. What the world construes as American decline under Obama has enhanced the global appeal of authoritarian alternatives to the open society — particularly a rising, authoritarian, increasingly repressive and dangerous China. Ironically, too, President Obama insists on spending less on one area of government where the lessons of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism instruct we spare no expense: national defense. …
Putin’s implacable determination to subvert Ukraine’s independence demonstrates the fallacy of President Obama’s worldview that conciliating rather than deterring adversaries will save much blood toil, tears, and sweat. …
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