Thoughts on Brown-Coakley

Tomorrow's shocking senate race in Massachusetts was never supposed to be a race. It was supposed to be a sure thing, a shew-in, a guaranteed pick-up for the Dems, a matter of formality. But this is America, and despite what Obama may think, America is exceptional. America is exceptional, not in the way that France or Greece is, but because America disdains nobility, title, and dynasty.

The few exceptions in American history are aberrations rather than a matter of course, unlike so many European nations where one's circumstance in birth determines one's status in life. You would think that Obama, of all people, would recognize that from his humble beginnings.

So what does the race between the previously unknown state senator Scott Brown and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley really mean in the grand scheme of things? Democrats are angry at Coakley for running a bad campaign, and anyone who calls Kurt Schilling a Yankee fan has made a major, colossal gaffe that would make even Joe Biden blush.

But Coakley isn't losing because of her own missteps, she's losing badly because she's wholeheartedly embraced Obama's far-left, socialist agenda that has continually enlarged government to the detriment of the private sector, freedom, capitalism, and individual rights. Throughout their history, Americans don't like being told what to do or how to do it. If an individual's actions aren't hurting anyone else, Americans don't like being told they can't do something. Telling them they have to pay into a system they don't get a say in makes them even more angry, as the British well know. After all, their founding document proclaims the right to pursue happiness, not as defined by government, but as each individual defines it unto himself.

The good people of Massachusetts, in their bluest of blue states, have health care already (thanks to moderate Gov. Mitt Romney). They don't see why they should now incur additional costs for the sake of other states and to fund corrupt deals such as the one made with Senator Nelson and the other with Sen. Landrieu, not to mention the incredibly unfair deal with the SEIU and other unions to exempt similar plans for the mere fact that one person may belong to a union while those not so attached will be taxed for their health care plan labelled as "Cadillac" by the all knowing, enlightened Obama administration.

But the fact that Americans could be thrown in jail for not wanting to participate in the health care system is most repugnant. This extension of the state's tentacles into the lives of the people is unprecedented and in conflict with America's origins. Freedom is experienced apart from government, not at the behest of it. And it's not the same as car insurance. You don't have to buy a car, but you do have to breathe.

Americans have always rejected socialism and centralized government control. It is this aversion that has set them apart from other nations over the course of history. American rugged individualism, self sufficiency, and self dependence has made it unique in the western world, and of any civilization. It is this natural distrust of government that has made America the world power that it is.

Obama has exhibited class warfare rhetoric and an undeniable tendency towards central planning which causes revulsion in average Americans (the kind that David Brooks and elitists just disdain), even those in Massachusetts. The Democrats have drifted so far to the left that they are willing to stomp the wishes of the people they claim to represent for the sake of their ideology. Indeed, they have begun to resemble the central planners they adamantly claimed to be so different from during the Cold War despite their obvious collectivist leanings.

Scott Brown may well prove that the seat he's running for does not belong to the Kennedy's, or the Democrats, but to the people of Massachusetts. I hope he's right, democracy would be well served.