Mister, We've Got A Man Like Woodrow Wilson Again

The great Thomas Sowell explores the ongoing dismantling of America:

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers– that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called “experts” deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?

Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?

Does any of this sound like America?

Yes — right around 1917.

(Or perhaps, we have an even earlier Big Government kind of guy: “Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar”, fawns the new head of the NEA — paging Mr. Iowahawk, Mr. Iowahawk to the red courtesy phone please…)