Among the most amazing aspects of the accelerating American submission to the state are 1) how matter-of-fact we are in contemplating massive government interventions such as President Obama’s latest stimulus “jobs” plan, and 2) how virtually no one notices the blatant Marxist overtones. When someone does, a la “Joe the Plumber” at the end of the 2008 campaign season, he is mocked off the stage.

Obama demonstrated how this is done in January 2010 when, during an unusual White House meeting with congressional Republicans about his pending health care legislation — another massive government intervention into the private sector — he declared: