Goebbels and Ginsburg give their endorsement.

• Author: Smith, G. Keith
• Position: ObamaCare - Joseph Goebbels and Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Health care issues in the United States

A friend recently opined to me about his increasing frustration with those who are unable to distinguish between politics and religion, particularly those for whom politics is their religion. Actually, this describes statists of all stripes, I think. People either want to use the power of the state to abscond with the property of others in order to complete The Lord's work," or they justify the state's trampling of individual rights in the name of "the greater good." Joseph Goebbels of Germany's Third Reich once proclaimed, "My party is my church and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do His will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.... I am only the instrument that God uses to sing His song. I am only the vessel that nature smilingly fills with new wine."

The supremacy of the state and the individual's role in feeding this parasitic institution are unapologetically clear in the writings of men like Goebbels, while more subtle, but no less fascistic musings and thoughts surround us today. For instance, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg maintains, "Frankly I had thought that, at the time Roe [v. Wade, 1973] was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of." Actually, that is not very subtle at all, is it?

While the German fascists claimed to hate the socialists, Austrian-born economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek's Road to Serfdom shook everyone who read it by the collar, pointing to the central planning that characterized both of these economic and political systems. Ginsburg's quote indicates that she sees herself as someone who knows who should be born and who should not, perhaps who should be allowed to stay alive and who should not.

What does any of this have to do with U.S. health care...