At the Democratic National Convention, the Charlotte host committee knew its audience. “Government,” the narrator says in a video produced by the committee for the opening of the convention, “is the only thing we all belong to.”
The Obama campaign quickly disavowed the video. But it captured all that was to come. The Charlotte Democrats are of, by, and for government — especially when it is guaranteeing and facilitating access to abortion. Democrats apparently held the convention in the Time Warner Cable Arena only because the local Planned Parenthood clinic down on Albemarle Road wasn’t available.
God might have been left out of the party platform in a fit of absent-mindedness (and then acrimoniously restored), but Government would never suffer such an indignity. It is the Alpha and Omega. The maker of dreams, the giver of succor, the ultimate expression of community. When Democrats say “We’re all in it together,” what they mean is that the Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations in the Department of Health and Human Services needs twice as much funding.
For Clinton Democrats, the era of Big Government was over. For Obama Democrats, the era of Big Government is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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