Dangerous Times: Obama's Perversity

American Thinker

By James Lewis

In economics, a “perverse effect” means getting what you don’t want.  If McDonald’s makes an executive decision to sell lousy burgers and ends up bankrupt, that is a perverse decision.  Markets are tough on companies that act perversely, but the Amazonian jungle of government allows perverse incentives to flourish and spread.  In our current state of national perversity we have massive voter ignorance and apathy (and therefore no punishment for misgovernment), a Senate that passes critical legislation without even bothering to read it, an income tax code written by special-interest lobbyists over decades, and an IRS that is so deeply politicized that voter outrage has no visible impact at all.  Add a one-party media and government control over one seventh of the economy coming up, and you know we’re not going to come out of this unscathed.

Chicago is basically a one-party regime.  How can you tell if you’re living under one-party rule?  Your media aren’t going to tell you.  Your government isn’t either.  Your schools are part of the mob monopoly.  But there are signs: the biggest one is that open scandals and crimes have no consequences.  We all know Holder is a perverse attorney general, that the EPA is run by scientific know-nothings, that Wall Street has high-level lines running into this administration, that “green technology” contradicts the known facts of physics, and that “catastrophic climate change” is a self-serving farce.

This presidency is practically defined by its perversity.  When this administration gets caught with its pants down, it just becomes even more grandiose.

All the scandals the media decided to expose after the election have not changed any behavior.  All the costs of ObamaCare are scheduled to come due after the election, and there must be millions of Americans still deluded enough to believe they didn’t buy a lemon again.  Anybody with a computer can now read the weekly exposés of the much-admired British government’s health system, with dirty, overcrowded hospital rooms; spreading antibiotic resistance; poor treatment for older people (who don’t have enough QALYs left on their life tickets); and deliberately uncontrolled immigration to bring in cheap Labour voters.  These are all in our future.

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