It is just another Government Driven Hoax like "Climate Change, formerly known as Global Warming, formerly known as the Coming Ice Age. m/r
It’s the Branding, Stupid | The American Spectator
– 12.12.14
Old Obamacare liberalism gives way to New Obamacare liberalism.
Kathleen Sebelius sees Obamacare as “working.” It just suffers from “a very bad brand.”
The former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services told Politico, “Obamacare, no question, has a very bad brand that has been driven intentionally by a lot of misinformation and a lot of paid advertising.”
The translation into Gruberese reads: “The American people are too stupid.” The 58 percent that favor repealing the law have been manipulated into their opinions—and not, alas, by PajamaBoy or Magic Johnson public-service announcements.
“I think we may need to call it something in the future different,” Kathleen Sebelius-Gruber concludes, “but it is working.”
The proponents of change recalcitrantly clinging to discredited ideas remains a universal political paradox. Miserable people want to bring change to everything but the one thing that would bring happiness: themselves. Transform one-seventh of the economy? Do it yesterday. Change my mind? Never.
Liberalism is nothing if not a constant rebranding effort. The last century began with statists rechristening themselves “progressives.” But imposing an upward-creeping income tax, nationalizing the railroads, devaluing the currency through the Federal Reserve, and outlawing the liquor needed to cope with such colossal idiocy all damaged the label.
So, progressives regrouped after the Return to Normalcy as “liberals.” But top tax rates confiscating as much as 95 percent of income, a welfare state incentivizing shiftlessness, and a misdiagnosis of criminal behavior as the fault of society rather than the perpetrator made “liberal” a term of derision by the time Michael Dukakis donned a tanker’s helmet.
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