Conditioning the masses to an extreme agenda

1. It's about government power and control, which is why, despite minuscule public support, many prominent Democrats, including most of the Democratic 2020 hopefuls, have openly embraced it.
2. So it is with the left's Green New Deal. Proposed as a socialist revolution by way of an energy revolution by Miss Ocasio-Cortez and Sen.
3. And they were right again: most prominent Democrats now openly embrace single payer, rebranded as Medicare for all. And polling shows support for it climbing, as they intended.
4. In 2003, Illinois state senator Barack Obama laid out the strategy: I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.
5. This is precisely the blueprint for today's American socialists, who move with both a predictable urgency and calculated methodology as they try to steer the nation away from limited government, capitalism and individual liberty and toward centralized control, command economics and collectivism.
6. He then used his considerable rhetorical gifts to sell longstanding progressive ambitions, from massive government spending and higher taxes to suffocating regulation, socialized medicine and government-subsidized unproven green energy projects.
7. They were right: Obamacare's tentacles began to wrap around the economy, making it ever-more difficult to disassemble and accelerating widespread acquiescence of government control of health care.
8. So unless we're willing to cede our most fundamental freedoms which often manifest in things like cars, air travel, hamburgers and private health insurance we must get as serious about their hostile takeover as they are.
9. Once they captured all three, the left moved quickly to achieve the politically practicable while simultaneously accustoming the public to the pie-in-the-sky single payer idea.
10. At the same time, history has taught them that when moving against societies with durable and cherished traditions of liberty and free-market economics, they must first acclimate those publics to statist ideas before they can actualize them as policy.
11. Tom Harkin referred to it as a starter home. Speaker Nancy Pelosi teased, Once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/20/how-the-left-acclimates-the-public-to-radical-chan/